Baylor vs. Washington

Baylor and Washington have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1954; Baylor leads the series 4–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Baylor 4–⁠1, and Baylor has won the last 2.

Baylor wins
4
Washington wins
1
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1954
Longest streak
2 Baylor
Current streak
2 Baylor
Last 10 meetings
Baylor 4–⁠1
Most recent
2011

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s2–⁠0
1960s1–⁠1
2010s1–⁠0
Average margin
13.6 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Baylor
2–⁠0 Baylor’s record at home
At Washington
1–⁠1 Washington’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0 Baylor first

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Baylor’s biggest win1954: Baylor 34, Washington 7by 27 points
  2. Washington’s biggest win1964: Washington 35, Baylor 14by 21 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Baylor and Washington, 1954 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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

Keith Price Washington23 of 37, 438 yards, 4 TD2011 Passing
Terrance Ganaway Baylor21 carries, 200 yards, 5 TD2011 Rushing

Named most valuable

Terrance Ganaway2011

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 Evening star's story of the 1954 game: Hooper Leads Baylor Over Huskies, BAT

    1954 · Evening star, Oct 17, 1954

  • The Evening star's story of the 1955 game: BAYLOR --------l3 WASHINGTON Ii Tulane Loses 10 Ole Miss, lib

    1955 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 16, 1955

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 29, 201115Baylor 67, Washington 56AlamodomeAlamo Bowl
Sep 25, 1965Baylor 17, Washington 14at Baylor
Sep 24, 19647Washington 35, Baylor 14at Washington
Oct 15, 1955Baylor 13, Washington 7at Washington
Oct 16, 1954Baylor 34, Washington 7at Baylor

Every game is listed as played on the field.