Baylor vs. Washington State

Baylor and Washington State have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1952; Baylor leads the series 4–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Baylor 4–⁠2.

Baylor wins
4
Washington State wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1952
Longest streak
3 Baylor
Current streak
1 Baylor
Last 10 meetings
Baylor 4–⁠2
Most recent
2008

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s1–⁠0
1960s2–⁠0
1990s0–⁠1
2000s1–⁠1
Average margin
11.7 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Baylor
3–⁠0 Baylor’s record at home
At Washington State
1–⁠1 Washington State’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠1 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 win2008: Baylor 45, Washington State 17by 28 points
  2. Washington State’s biggest win1994: Washington State 10, Baylor 3by 7 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Baylor and Washington State, 1952 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

Robert Griffin III Baylor11 carries, 217 yards, 2 TD2008 Rushing

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

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1952 game: Baylor Easily Beats Cougars, 31-7

    1952 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 5, 1952

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 12, 2008Baylor 45, Washington State 17at Baylor
Sep 16, 2006Washington State 17, Baylor 15at Washington State
Dec 31, 199424Washington State 10, Baylor 3Neutral siteAlamo Bowl
Oct 7, 1967Baylor 10, Washington State 7at Baylor
Oct 1, 1966Baylor 20, Washington State 14at Washington State
Oct 4, 1952Baylor 31, Washington State 7at Baylor

Every game is listed as played on the field.