Arkansas vs. Tulsa

Arkansas and Tulsa have 70 meetings on file, the first in 1917; Arkansas leads the series 52–⁠16–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Arkansas 10–⁠0, and Arkansas has won the last 20.

Scheduled 2027 at Tulsa; 2029 at Arkansas. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).

Arkansas wins
52
Tulsa wins
16
Ties
2
Earliest on file
1917
Longest streak
20 Arkansas
Current streak
20 Arkansas
Last 10 meetings
Arkansas 10–⁠0
Most recent
2026

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s2–⁠1
1920s1–⁠2
1930s4–⁠2–⁠2
1940s5–⁠5
1950s6–⁠3
1960s9–⁠1
1970s8–⁠2
1980s10–⁠0
1990s2–⁠0
2000s2–⁠0
2010s2–⁠0
2020s1–⁠0
Average margin
19.7 points; 20 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Arkansas
44–⁠6 Arkansas’s record at home
At Tulsa
10–⁠8–⁠2 Tulsa’s record at home
Shutouts
11

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Arkansas’s biggest win1974: Arkansas 60, Tulsa 0by 60 points
  2. Tulsa’s biggest win1943: Tulsa 61, Arkansas 0by 61 points
  3. Upset1930: Tulsa 26, Arkansas 6Tulsa had a 11% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset1919: Tulsa 63, Arkansas 7Tulsa had a 14% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  5. Upset1971: Tulsa 21, Arkansas 20Tulsa had a 16% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsArkansasSeriesTulsa
1933–⁠1935Fred Thomsen1–⁠1–⁠1Gus Henderson
1936–⁠1938Fred Thomsen2–⁠0–⁠1Vic Hurt
1946–⁠1949John Barnhill3–⁠1John Brothers
1950–⁠1952Otis Douglas1–⁠2John Brothers
1958–⁠1960Frank Broyles2–⁠1Robert Dobbs
1961–⁠1968Frank Broyles7–⁠1Glenn Dobbs
1970–⁠1972Frank Broyles2–⁠1Claude Gibson
1973–⁠1976Frank Broyles3–⁠1F. Dry
1977–⁠1983Lou Holtz7–⁠0John Cooper

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Arkansas’s side (Thomsen 1–⁠1–⁠1 against Henderson). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Arkansas and Tulsa, 1917 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

Biggest days

Chris Marshall Arkansas9 catches, 195 yards, 1 TD2026 Receiving

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

From the newspapers

  • The The Morning Tulsa daily world's story of the 1919 game

    1919 · The Morning Tulsa daily world, Tulsa, Okla., Nov 4, 1919

  • The Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current's story of the 1930 game: TULSA BEATS ARKANSAS U. Sooner Aggregation Wins Easily by Score OF 26-6

    1930 · Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, Oct 5, 1930

  • The Evening star's story of the 1933 game: Foot Ball Results

    1933 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Dec 1, 1933

  • The Imperial Valley press's story of the 1939 game

    1939 · Imperial Valley press, California, Dec 1, 1939

  • The Evening star's story of the 1942 game: Results of Football Games YESTERDAY

    1942 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 27, 1942

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

Sep 26, 2026Arkansas 34, Tulsa 6at Arkansas
Oct 20, 2018Arkansas 23, Tulsa 0at Arkansas
Nov 3, 2012Arkansas 19, Tulsa 15at Arkansas
Nov 1, 2008Arkansas 30, 19Tulsa 23at Arkansas
Sep 6, 2003Arkansas 45, Tulsa 13at Arkansas
Nov 13, 1993Arkansas 24, Tulsa 11at Arkansas
Sep 15, 199015Arkansas 28, Tulsa 3at Arkansas
Sep 16, 19899Arkansas 26, Tulsa 7at Arkansas
Sep 10, 1988Arkansas 30, Tulsa 26at Arkansas
Sep 19, 198712Arkansas 30, Tulsa 15at Arkansas
Sep 20, 198612Arkansas 34, Tulsa 17at Arkansas
Sep 21, 198514Arkansas 24, Tulsa 0at Arkansas
Sep 22, 1984Arkansas 18, Tulsa 9at Arkansas
Sep 10, 1983Arkansas 17, Tulsa 14at Arkansas
Sep 11, 198213Arkansas 38, Tulsa 0at Arkansas
Sep 12, 1981Arkansas 14, Tulsa 10at Arkansas
Sep 27, 198015Arkansas 13, Tulsa 10at Arkansas
Sep 29, 197913Arkansas 33, Tulsa 8at Arkansas
Sep 30, 19782Arkansas 21, Tulsa 13at Arkansas
Sep 24, 197716Arkansas 37, Tulsa 3at Arkansas
Sep 25, 1976Tulsa 9, 12Arkansas 3at Arkansas
Sep 27, 1975Arkansas 31, Tulsa 15at Arkansas
Sep 28, 1974Arkansas 60, Tulsa 0at Arkansas
Oct 27, 1973Arkansas 20, Tulsa 6at Arkansas
Sep 30, 1972Arkansas 21, Tulsa 20at Arkansas
Sep 25, 1971Tulsa 21, 7Arkansas 20at Arkansas
Sep 26, 197012Arkansas 49, Tulsa 7at Arkansas
Sep 27, 19693Arkansas 55, Tulsa 0at Arkansas
Sep 28, 1968Arkansas 56, Tulsa 13at Arkansas
Sep 30, 1967Tulsa 14, Arkansas 12at Arkansas
Sep 24, 19666Arkansas 27, Tulsa 8at Arkansas
Sep 25, 19655Arkansas 20, Tulsa 12at Arkansas
Sep 26, 1964Arkansas 31, Tulsa 22at Arkansas
Oct 26, 1963Arkansas 56, Tulsa 7at Arkansas
Sep 29, 1962Arkansas 42, Tulsa 14at Arkansas
Sep 30, 1961Arkansas 6, Tulsa 0at Arkansas
Sep 24, 1960Arkansas 48, Tulsa 7at Arkansas
Sep 19, 1959Arkansas 28, Tulsa 0at Arkansas
Sep 27, 1958Tulsa 27, Arkansas 14at Arkansas
Sep 28, 1957Arkansas 41, Tulsa 14at Arkansas
Sep 17, 1955Arkansas 21, Tulsa 6at Arkansas
Sep 25, 1954Arkansas 41, Tulsa 0at Arkansas
Nov 28, 1953Arkansas 27, Tulsa 7at Arkansas
Nov 22, 195211Tulsa 44, Arkansas 34at Tulsa
Nov 24, 1951Arkansas 24, Tulsa 7at Arkansas
Nov 23, 1950Tulsa 28, Arkansas 13at Tulsa
Nov 26, 1949Arkansas 40, Tulsa 7at Arkansas
Nov 20, 1948Arkansas 55, Tulsa 18at Arkansas
Nov 27, 1947Arkansas 27, Tulsa 13at Tulsa
Nov 28, 1946Tulsa 14, 10Arkansas 13at Tulsa
Nov 23, 194517Tulsa 45, Arkansas 13at Tulsa
Nov 23, 1944Tulsa 33, Arkansas 2at Tulsa
Nov 25, 194320Tulsa 61, Arkansas 0at Tulsa
Nov 26, 19426Tulsa 40, Arkansas 7at Tulsa
Nov 27, 1941Arkansas 13, Tulsa 6at Tulsa
Nov 28, 1940Arkansas 27, Tulsa 21at Tulsa
Nov 30, 1939Arkansas 23, Tulsa 0at Tulsa
Nov 24, 1938Tulsa 6, Arkansas 6at Tulsa
Nov 25, 1937Arkansas 28, 20Tulsa 7at Tulsa
Nov 26, 1936Arkansas 23, Tulsa 13at Tulsa
Nov 28, 1935Arkansas 14, Tulsa 7at Tulsa
Nov 29, 1934Tulsa 7, Arkansas 7at Tulsa
Nov 30, 1933Tulsa 7, Arkansas 0at Tulsa
Oct 4, 1930Tulsa 26, Arkansas 6at Tulsa
Nov 25, 1926Tulsa 14, Arkansas 7at Tulsa
Nov 28, 1925Arkansas 20, Tulsa 7at Tulsa
Nov 4, 1922Tulsa 13, Arkansas 6at Arkansas
Nov 1, 1919Tulsa 63, Arkansas 7at Arkansas
Oct 26, 1918Arkansas 23, Tulsa 6at Arkansas
Oct 27, 1917Arkansas 19, Tulsa 7at Arkansas

Every game is listed as played on the field.