BYU vs. Texas Tech

BYU and Texas Tech have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1940; Texas Tech leads the series 3–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Texas Tech 3–⁠1, and Texas Tech has won the last 2.

Scheduled 2027 at BYU. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).

BYU wins
1
Texas Tech wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1940
Longest streak
2 Texas Tech
Current streak
2 Texas Tech
Last 10 meetings
Texas Tech 3–⁠1
Most recent
2025

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s0–⁠1
2020s1–⁠2
Both ranked
2 meetings: BYU 0, Texas Tech 2; 1 both in the top 10
Average margin
15.8 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At BYU
1–⁠0 BYU’s record at home
At Texas Tech
2–⁠0 Texas Tech’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠1 BYU first

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

Coach against coach

YearsBYUSeriesTexas Tech
2023–⁠2025Kalani Sitake1–⁠2Joey McGuire

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from BYU’s side (Sitake 1–⁠2 against McGuire). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of BYU and Texas Tech, 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.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

Ben Roberts Texas Tech2025

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1940 game: FridayNighf Grid Results

    1940 · The Daily Alaska empire, Oct 19, 1940

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.

On television

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game once: 2025.

2025ABC4.0 million viewers
2025ABC9.0 million viewers

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA). Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game

Dec 6, 20255Texas Tech 34, 11BYU 7AT&T StadiumBig 12 Championship
Nov 8, 20259Texas Tech 29, 8BYU 7at Texas Tech
Oct 21, 2023BYU 27, Texas Tech 14at BYU
Oct 18, 1940Texas Tech 21, BYU 20at Texas Tech

Every game is listed as played on the field.