Arkansas vs. Texas Tech
Arkansas and Texas Tech have 38 meetings on file, the first in 1957; Arkansas leads the series 30–8 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Arkansas 6–4. Share
2030 neutral site; 2031 at Arkansas; 2034 at Texas Tech. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).
- Arkansas wins
- 30
- Texas Tech wins
- 8
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1957
- Longest streak
- 9 Arkansas
- Current streak
- 1 Arkansas
- Last 10 meetings
- Arkansas 6–4
- Most recent
- 2024
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 3–0 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 8–2 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 8–2 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 9–1 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 0–2 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 2020s | 1–0 |
- Both ranked
- 2 meetings: Arkansas 2, Texas Tech 0; 1 both in the top 10
- Average margin
- 17.2 points; 10 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Arkansas
- 13–6 Arkansas’s record at home
- At Texas Tech
- 2–16 Texas Tech’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–0 Arkansas first
- Shutouts
- 7
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Arkansas’s biggest win1978: Arkansas 49, Texas Tech 7by 42 points
- Texas Tech’s biggest win1976: Texas Tech 30, Arkansas 7by 23 points
- Upset1986: Texas Tech 17, Arkansas 7Texas Tech had a 16% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1966: Texas Tech 21, Arkansas 16Texas Tech had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset2014: Arkansas 49, Texas Tech 28Arkansas had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Ranked showdown1965: Arkansas 42, Texas Tech 24No. 9 Texas Tech at No. 2 Arkansas
- Ranked showdown1970: Arkansas 24, Texas Tech 10No. 6 Arkansas at No. 19 Texas Tech
Coach against coach
| Years | Arkansas | Series | Texas Tech |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958–1960 | Frank Broyles | 3–0 | DeWitt Weaver |
| 1961–1969 | Frank Broyles | 7–2 | J.T. King |
| 1970–1974 | Frank Broyles | 4–1 | Jim Carlen |
| 1978–1980 | Lou Holtz | 3–0 | Rex Dockery |
| 1981–1983 | Lou Holtz | 3–0 | Jerry Moore |
| 1987–1989 | Ken Hatfield | 3–0 | Spike Dykes |
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Arkansas’s side (Broyles 3–0 against Weaver). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
Both programs through the years
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.
Stars of the series
Biggest days
| Alex Collins Arkansas | 27 carries, 212 yards, 2 TD | 2014 Rushing |
Named most valuable
| Taylen Green Arkansas | 2024 |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers

1960 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 20, 1960
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
Every game is listed as played on the field.