Arkansas vs. Vanderbilt
Arkansas and Vanderbilt have 11 meetings on file, the first in 1949; Arkansas leads the series 8–3 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Arkansas 7–3. Share
- Arkansas wins
- 8
- Vanderbilt wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1949
- Longest streak
- 3 Arkansas
- Current streak
- 1 Arkansas
- Last 10 meetings
- Arkansas 7–3
- Most recent
- 2026
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 2–1 | ||||||||||
| 2020s | 1–0 |
- Average margin
- 15 points; 5 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Arkansas
- 3–3 Arkansas’s record at home
- At Vanderbilt
- 0–5 Vanderbilt’s record at home
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Arkansas’s biggest win1994: Arkansas 42, Vanderbilt 6by 36 points
- Vanderbilt’s biggest win2018: Vanderbilt 45, Arkansas 31by 14 points
- Upset1949: Arkansas 7, Vanderbilt 6Arkansas had a 25% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset2005: Vanderbilt 28, Arkansas 24Vanderbilt had a 25% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset2026: Arkansas 31, Vanderbilt 21Arkansas had a 25% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
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
| Ryan Mallett Arkansas | 27 of 44, 409 yards, 3 TD | 2010 Passing |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).
From the newspapers
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
| Oct 17, 2026 | Arkansas 31, Vanderbilt 21 | at Vanderbilt | ||
| Oct 27, 2018 | Vanderbilt 45, Arkansas 31 | at Arkansas | ||
| Oct 29, 2011 | 8Arkansas 31, Vanderbilt 28 | at Vanderbilt | ||
| Oct 30, 2010 | 19Arkansas 49, Vanderbilt 14 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 16, 2006 | Arkansas 21, Vanderbilt 19 | at Vanderbilt | ||
| Sep 10, 2005 | Vanderbilt 28, Arkansas 24 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 30, 1995 | 23Arkansas 35, Vanderbilt 7 | at Vanderbilt | ||
| Oct 1, 1994 | Arkansas 42, Vanderbilt 6 | at Arkansas | ||
| Sep 16, 1978 | 2Arkansas 48, Vanderbilt 17 | at Arkansas | ||
| Oct 28, 1950 | Vanderbilt 14, Arkansas 13 | at Arkansas | ||
| Oct 22, 1949 | Arkansas 7, Vanderbilt 6 | at Vanderbilt |
Every game is listed as played on the field.

