Baylor vs. Texas Tech

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

1. Baylor’s biggest win1929: Baylor 34, Texas Tech 0by 34 points
2. Texas Tech’s biggest win2002: Texas Tech 62, Baylor 11by 51 points
3. Upset2024: Baylor 59, Texas Tech 35Baylor had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1991: Texas Tech 31, Baylor 24Texas Tech had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1983: Texas Tech 26, Baylor 11Texas Tech had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown1976: Texas Tech 24, Baylor 21No. 18 Baylor at No. 9 Texas Tech

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Baylor’s side (Jennings 1–⁠3 against Cawthon). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1942 · Evening star, Oct 19, 1942

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  1946 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 21, 1946

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  1949 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 16, 1949

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  1950 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 23, 1950

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  1951 · Evening star, Oct 21, 1951

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Baylor vs. TCU116 meetings, Baylor 50–⁠61–⁠5
• Baylor vs. Texas112 meetings, Baylor 28–⁠79–⁠5
• Baylor vs. Texas A&M102 meetings, Baylor 29–⁠64–⁠9
• Baylor vs. SMU83 meetings, Baylor 40–⁠36–⁠7
• Texas Tech vs. Texas73 meetings, Texas Tech 18–⁠55
• Texas Tech vs. Texas A&M70 meetings, Texas Tech 32–⁠37–⁠1
• Texas Tech vs. TCU67 meetings, Texas Tech 33–⁠31–⁠3
• Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma State52 meetings, Texas Tech 25–⁠24–⁠3