Arkansas vs. Tulane

Arkansas and Tulane have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1906; Arkansas leads the series 4–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Arkansas 4–⁠0, and Arkansas has won the last 4.

Arkansas wins
4
Tulane wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1906
Longest streak
4 Arkansas
Current streak
4 Arkansas
Last 10 meetings
Arkansas 4–⁠0
Most recent
1980

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s2–⁠0
1910s1–⁠0
1980s1–⁠0
Average margin
15 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Tulane
0–⁠3 Tulane’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0 Arkansas first
Shutouts
2

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Arkansas and Tulane, 1906 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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

Named most valuable

Gary Anderson1980
Billy Ray Smith1980

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The The Montgomery advertiser's story of the 1906 game: TULANE HAS JONAH. Defeated In Last Came By Arkansas, HRw xssarss ,xf 12 ia N. 3 4

    1906 · The Montgomery advertiser, Nov 25, 1906

  • The The Montgomery advertiser's story of the 1907 game: TULANE UNIVERSITY LOSES TO UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS.

    1907 · The Montgomery advertiser, Alabama, Nov 10, 1907

  • The Tulsa daily world's story of the 1913 game: ARKANSAS WON THE GAME FROM TULANE NEW ORLEANS COLLEGE DE- FEATfD IN LAST GAME OS TIE SEASON.

    1913 · Tulsa daily world, Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.], Nov 28, 1913

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

Dec 27, 1980Arkansas 34, Tulane 15Neutral siteHall of Fame Classic
Nov 27, 1913Arkansas 14, Tulane 0at Tulane
Nov 9, 1907Arkansas 17, Tulane 12at Tulane
Nov 24, 1906Arkansas 22, Tulane 0at Tulane

Every game is listed as played on the field.