Baylor vs. LSU

Baylor and LSU have 12 meetings on file, the first in 1907; LSU leads the series 9–⁠3 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s LSU 7–⁠3.

Baylor wins
3
LSU wins
9
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1907
Longest streak
5 LSU
Current streak
1 LSU
Last 10 meetings
LSU 7–⁠3
Most recent
2024

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠2
1910s0–⁠2
1950s0–⁠1
1960s2–⁠2
1970s0–⁠1
1980s1–⁠0
2020s0–⁠1
Average margin
30.1 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Baylor
0–⁠1 Baylor’s record at home
At LSU
7–⁠1 LSU’s record at home
Neutral sites
2–⁠1 Baylor first
Shutouts
5

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Baylor’s biggest win1985: Baylor 21, LSU 7by 14 points
  2. LSU’s biggest win1908: LSU 89, Baylor 0by 89 points
  3. Upset1960: Baylor 7, LSU 3Baylor had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Baylor and LSU, 1907 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

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

Sawyer Robertson Baylor30 of 51, 445 yards, 2 TD, 1 INT2024 Passing

Named most valuable

Garrett Nussmeier LSU2024
Baylor QB Cody Carlson1985

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The The chronicle's story of the 1963 game: Leads South Team In Overtaking Yankees

    1963 · The chronicle, Mississippi, Dec 23, 1963

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 31, 2024LSU 44, Baylor 31NRG StadiumTexas Bowl
Dec 27, 1985Baylor 21, 12LSU 7Neutral siteLiberty Bowl
Oct 3, 1970LSU 31, Baylor 10at LSU
Oct 4, 196916LSU 63, Baylor 8at LSU
Oct 5, 196810LSU 48, Baylor 16at LSU
Dec 21, 1963Baylor 14, LSU 7Neutral siteBluebonnet Bowl
Oct 1, 1960Baylor 7, LSU 3at LSU
Oct 3, 19591LSU 22, Baylor 0at LSU
Oct 23, 1913LSU 50, Baylor 0at LSU
Nov 4, 1911LSU 6, Baylor 0at Baylor
Nov 10, 1908LSU 89, Baylor 0at LSU
Nov 30, 1907LSU 48, Baylor 0at LSU

Every game is listed as played on the field.