Baylor vs. Tulane

Baylor and Tulane have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1908; the series is tied 3–⁠3 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s even at 3–⁠3.

Baylor wins
3
Tulane wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1908
Longest streak
1 Tulane
Current streak
1 Baylor
Last 10 meetings
even at 3–⁠3
Most recent
1983

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s1–⁠1
1940s0–⁠1
1950s1–⁠0
1980s1–⁠1
Average margin
11.7 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Baylor
2–⁠0 Baylor’s record at home
At Tulane
3–⁠1 Tulane’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Baylor’s biggest win1951: Baylor 27, Tulane 14by 13 points
  2. Tulane’s biggest win1948: Tulane 35, Baylor 13by 22 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Baylor and Tulane, 1908 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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 1948 game: 1o48 Season to Be Monument To BoII-Corrying CoIlegions

    1948 · Evening star, Nov 17, 1948

  • The Evening star's story of the 1951 game: Larry Isbe|I. Stars; Game Tied, 14-14, at Close OF First Half

    1951 · Evening star, Oct 7, 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

Oct 29, 1983Baylor 24, Tulane 18at Baylor
Oct 30, 1982Tulane 30, Baylor 15at Tulane
Oct 6, 195119Baylor 27, Tulane 14at Tulane
Nov 13, 1948Tulane 35, Baylor 13at Tulane
Nov 21, 1908Baylor 6, Tulane 0at Baylor
Nov 7, 1908Tulane 10, Baylor 2at Tulane

Every game is listed as played on the field.