Arkansas vs. TCU

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Arkansas’s biggest win1974: Arkansas 49, TCU 0by 49 points
2. TCU’s biggest win1930: TCU 40, Arkansas 0by 40 points
3. Upset1990: TCU 54, Arkansas 26TCU had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1984: TCU 32, Arkansas 31TCU had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1981: TCU 28, Arkansas 24TCU had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Arkansas’s side (Schmidt 2–⁠2 against Bell). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1924 · The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, Nov 28, 1924

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  1930 · Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, Oct 17, 1930

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  1933 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 8, 1933

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  1939 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 9, 1939

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  1940 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Oct 11, 1940

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Arkansas vs. Texas A&M83 meetings, Arkansas 42–⁠38–⁠3
• Arkansas vs. Texas80 meetings, Arkansas 23–⁠57
• Arkansas vs. SMU73 meetings, Arkansas 37–⁠31–⁠5
• Arkansas vs. Ole Miss72 meetings, Arkansas 37–⁠34–⁠1
• TCU vs. Baylor116 meetings, TCU 61–⁠50–⁠5
• TCU vs. SMU103 meetings, TCU 54–⁠42–⁠7
• TCU vs. Texas91 meetings, TCU 28–⁠62–⁠1
• TCU vs. Texas A&M89 meetings, TCU 28–⁠54–⁠7