Army vs. Oklahoma

Army and Oklahoma have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1946; Oklahoma leads the series 3–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Oklahoma 3–⁠1, and Oklahoma has won the last 3.

Army wins
1
Oklahoma wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1946
Longest streak
3 Oklahoma
Current streak
3 Oklahoma
Last 10 meetings
Oklahoma 3–⁠1
Most recent
2018

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s1–⁠0
1950s0–⁠1
1960s0–⁠1
2010s0–⁠1
Average margin
8.8 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Army
1–⁠1 Army’s record at home
At Oklahoma
2–⁠0 Oklahoma’s record at home

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 Army and Oklahoma, 1946 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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.

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1946 game: Army Rallies 10 Beat Oklahoma, Il 10 7, Without Blanchard Cadets Just Another Team Without Stor; FumbIes Mar Come

    1946 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 29, 1946

  • The Evening star's story of the 1961 game: TRICK PLAY SHOCKS CADETS Sooners Catch Army Mapping, Win, 14-8

    1961 · Evening star, Nov 19, 1961

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 22, 20185Oklahoma 28, Army 21at Oklahoma
Nov 18, 1961Oklahoma 14, Army 8at Army
Nov 14, 1959Oklahoma 28, Army 20at Oklahoma
Sep 28, 1946Army 21, Oklahoma 7at Army

Every game is listed as played on the field.