Baylor vs. Tulsa

Baylor and Tulsa have 9 meetings on file, the first in 1940; Baylor leads the series 5–⁠4 in the games on file. Over the last 9 meetings it’s Baylor 5–⁠4, and Baylor has won the last 4.

Baylor wins
5
Tulsa wins
4
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1940
Longest streak
4 Tulsa
Current streak
4 Baylor
Last 10 meetings
Baylor 5–⁠4
Most recent
2002

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s3–⁠4
1990s1–⁠0
2000s1–⁠0
Average margin
16.6 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Baylor
3–⁠1 Baylor’s record at home
At Tulsa
3–⁠2 Tulsa’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Baylor’s biggest win1995: Baylor 37, Tulsa 5by 32 points
  2. Tulsa’s biggest win1942: Tulsa 24, Baylor 0by 24 points
  3. Upset1947: Baylor 7, Tulsa 6Baylor had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsBaylorSeriesTulsa
1941–⁠1945Frank Kimbrough0–⁠3Henry Frnka

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Baylor’s side (Kimbrough 0–⁠3 against Frnka). 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 Tulsa, 1940 on130015001700194019501960197019801990200020102020

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 The Wilmington morning star's story of the 1940 game: CARO- INA DOWNS DUKE BY 6 TO 3 SCOR] title Davv Spencer Leads Davidson Wildcats To 26-0 Vii Football Scores

    1940 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Nov 17, 1940

  • The Evening star's story of the 1941 game: Tulsa Licks Tough BuyIor, 20 to Is

    1941 · Evening star, Nov 16, 1941

  • The Detroit evening times's story of the 1942 game: NJ Makes Experts Blush

    1942 · Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, Nov 16, 1942

  • The Evening star's story of the 1946 game: TuIso Ace Scores All Points in Come

    1946 · Evening star, Nov 17, 1946

  • The Evening star's story of the 1947 game

    1947 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 17, 1947

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 21, 2002Baylor 37, Tulsa 25at Baylor
Sep 2, 1995Baylor 37, Tulsa 5at Tulsa
Sep 25, 1948Baylor 42, Tulsa 19at Baylor
Nov 15, 1947Baylor 7, Tulsa 6at Tulsa
Nov 16, 1946Tulsa 17, Baylor 0at Tulsa
Nov 17, 194519Tulsa 26, Baylor 7at Baylor
Nov 14, 19429Tulsa 24, Baylor 0at Tulsa
Nov 15, 1941Tulsa 20, Baylor 13at Tulsa
Nov 16, 1940Baylor 20, Tulsa 6at Baylor

Every game is listed as played on the field.