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. Share
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
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 2–1 | ||||||||||
| 1920s | 1–2 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 4–2–2 | ||||||||||
| 1940s | 5–5 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 6–3 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 9–1 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 8–2 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 10–0 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 2020s | 1–0 |
- 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
- Arkansas’s biggest win1974: Arkansas 60, Tulsa 0by 60 points
- Tulsa’s biggest win1943: Tulsa 61, Arkansas 0by 61 points
- Upset1930: Tulsa 26, Arkansas 6Tulsa had a 11% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1919: Tulsa 63, Arkansas 7Tulsa had a 14% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1971: Tulsa 21, Arkansas 20Tulsa had a 16% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
Coach against coach
| Years | Arkansas | Series | Tulsa |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1933–1935 | Fred Thomsen | 1–1–1 | Gus Henderson |
| 1936–1938 | Fred Thomsen | 2–0–1 | Vic Hurt |
| 1946–1949 | John Barnhill | 3–1 | John Brothers |
| 1950–1952 | Otis Douglas | 1–2 | John Brothers |
| 1958–1960 | Frank Broyles | 2–1 | Robert Dobbs |
| 1961–1968 | Frank Broyles | 7–1 | Glenn Dobbs |
| 1970–1972 | Frank Broyles | 2–1 | Claude Gibson |
| 1973–1976 | Frank Broyles | 3–1 | F. Dry |
| 1977–1983 | Lou Holtz | 7–0 | John 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
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 Arkansas | 9 catches, 195 yards, 1 TD | 2026 Receiving |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).
From the newspapers

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

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

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

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

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, 2026 | Arkansas 34, Tulsa 6 | at Arkansas | ||
| Oct 20, 2018 | Arkansas 23, Tulsa 0 | at Arkansas | ||
| Nov 3, 2012 | Arkansas 19, Tulsa 15 | at Arkansas | ||
| Nov 1, 2008 | Arkansas 30, 19Tulsa 23 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 6, 2003 | Arkansas 45, Tulsa 13 | at Arkansas | ||
| Nov 13, 1993 | Arkansas 24, Tulsa 11 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 15, 1990 | 15Arkansas 28, Tulsa 3 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 16, 1989 | 9Arkansas 26, Tulsa 7 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 10, 1988 | Arkansas 30, Tulsa 26 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 19, 1987 | 12Arkansas 30, Tulsa 15 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 20, 1986 | 12Arkansas 34, Tulsa 17 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 21, 1985 | 14Arkansas 24, Tulsa 0 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 22, 1984 | Arkansas 18, Tulsa 9 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 10, 1983 | Arkansas 17, Tulsa 14 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 11, 1982 | 13Arkansas 38, Tulsa 0 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 12, 1981 | Arkansas 14, Tulsa 10 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 27, 1980 | 15Arkansas 13, Tulsa 10 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 29, 1979 | 13Arkansas 33, Tulsa 8 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 30, 1978 | 2Arkansas 21, Tulsa 13 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 24, 1977 | 16Arkansas 37, Tulsa 3 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 25, 1976 | Tulsa 9, 12Arkansas 3 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 27, 1975 | Arkansas 31, Tulsa 15 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 28, 1974 | Arkansas 60, Tulsa 0 | at Arkansas | ||
| Oct 27, 1973 | Arkansas 20, Tulsa 6 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 30, 1972 | Arkansas 21, Tulsa 20 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 25, 1971 | Tulsa 21, 7Arkansas 20 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 26, 1970 | 12Arkansas 49, Tulsa 7 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 27, 1969 | 3Arkansas 55, Tulsa 0 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 28, 1968 | Arkansas 56, Tulsa 13 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 30, 1967 | Tulsa 14, Arkansas 12 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 24, 1966 | 6Arkansas 27, Tulsa 8 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 25, 1965 | 5Arkansas 20, Tulsa 12 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 26, 1964 | Arkansas 31, Tulsa 22 | at Arkansas | ||
| Oct 26, 1963 | Arkansas 56, Tulsa 7 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 29, 1962 | Arkansas 42, Tulsa 14 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 30, 1961 | Arkansas 6, Tulsa 0 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 24, 1960 | Arkansas 48, Tulsa 7 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 19, 1959 | Arkansas 28, Tulsa 0 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 27, 1958 | Tulsa 27, Arkansas 14 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 28, 1957 | Arkansas 41, Tulsa 14 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 17, 1955 | Arkansas 21, Tulsa 6 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 25, 1954 | Arkansas 41, Tulsa 0 | at Arkansas | ||
| Nov 28, 1953 | Arkansas 27, Tulsa 7 | at Arkansas | ||
| Nov 22, 1952 | 11Tulsa 44, Arkansas 34 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 24, 1951 | Arkansas 24, Tulsa 7 | at Arkansas | ||
| Nov 23, 1950 | Tulsa 28, Arkansas 13 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 26, 1949 | Arkansas 40, Tulsa 7 | at Arkansas | ||
| Nov 20, 1948 | Arkansas 55, Tulsa 18 | at Arkansas | ||
| Nov 27, 1947 | Arkansas 27, Tulsa 13 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 28, 1946 | Tulsa 14, 10Arkansas 13 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 23, 1945 | 17Tulsa 45, Arkansas 13 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 23, 1944 | Tulsa 33, Arkansas 2 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 25, 1943 | 20Tulsa 61, Arkansas 0 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 26, 1942 | 6Tulsa 40, Arkansas 7 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 27, 1941 | Arkansas 13, Tulsa 6 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 28, 1940 | Arkansas 27, Tulsa 21 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 30, 1939 | Arkansas 23, Tulsa 0 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 24, 1938 | Tulsa 6, Arkansas 6 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 25, 1937 | Arkansas 28, 20Tulsa 7 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 26, 1936 | Arkansas 23, Tulsa 13 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 28, 1935 | Arkansas 14, Tulsa 7 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 29, 1934 | Tulsa 7, Arkansas 7 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 30, 1933 | Tulsa 7, Arkansas 0 | at Tulsa | ||
| Oct 4, 1930 | Tulsa 26, Arkansas 6 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 25, 1926 | Tulsa 14, Arkansas 7 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 28, 1925 | Arkansas 20, Tulsa 7 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 4, 1922 | Tulsa 13, Arkansas 6 | at Arkansas | ||
| Nov 1, 1919 | Tulsa 63, Arkansas 7 | at Arkansas | ||
| Oct 26, 1918 | Arkansas 23, Tulsa 6 | at Arkansas | ||
| Oct 27, 1917 | Arkansas 19, Tulsa 7 | at Arkansas |
Every game is listed as played on the field.