Baylor vs. North Texas

Baylor and North Texas have 13 meetings on file, the first in 1922; Baylor leads the series 12–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Baylor 9–⁠1.

Scheduled 2028 at Baylor; 2029 at North Texas. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).

Baylor wins
12
North Texas wins
1
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1922
Longest streak
11 Baylor
Current streak
1 Baylor
Last 10 meetings
Baylor 9–⁠1
Most recent
2004

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s6–⁠0
1930s1–⁠0
1940s1–⁠0
1980s1–⁠0
1990s1–⁠0
2000s2–⁠1
Average margin
25.6 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Baylor
11–⁠0 Baylor’s record at home
At North Texas
1–⁠1 North Texas’s record at home
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 win1922: Baylor 55, North Texas 0by 55 points
  2. North Texas’s biggest win2003: North Texas 52, Baylor 14by 38 points

Coach against coach

YearsBaylorSeriesNorth Texas
1922–⁠1924Frank Bridges3–⁠0Theron J. Fouts

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Baylor’s side (Bridges 3–⁠0 against Fouts). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Baylor and North Texas, 1922 on13001500170019401960198020002020

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 San Antonio light's story of the 1925 game: Baylor Rallies to Wauop Denton

    1925 · San Antonio light, San Antonio, Tex., Oct 4, 1925

  • The Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current's story of the 1928 game: CONFERENCE TEAMS MAKE GOOD OPENING Arkansas Only Eleven 10 Nest Defeat In Prelimin a s; All Play Next Saturday

    1928 · Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, Oct 1, 1928

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 25, 2004Baylor 37, North Texas 14at Baylor
Sep 6, 2003North Texas 52, Baylor 14at North Texas
Aug 31, 2000Baylor 20, North Texas 7at North Texas
Oct 2, 1999Baylor 23, North Texas 10at Baylor
Sep 4, 1982Baylor 21, North Texas 17at Baylor
Sep 28, 1940Baylor 27, North Texas 20at Baylor
Sep 27, 1930Baylor 33, North Texas 0at Baylor
Sep 28, 1929Baylor 32, North Texas 0at Baylor
Sep 29, 1928Baylor 45, North Texas 0at Baylor
Oct 3, 1925Baylor 20, North Texas 6at Baylor
Oct 4, 1924Baylor 30, North Texas 0at Baylor
Oct 6, 1923Baylor 33, North Texas 7at Baylor
Sep 30, 1922Baylor 55, North Texas 0at Baylor

Every game is listed as played on the field.