Centenary (LA) vs. Texas Tech

Centenary (LA) and Texas Tech first met in 1936 and have played 5 times; Texas Tech leads the series 4–⁠0–⁠1. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Texas Tech 4–⁠0, and Texas Tech has won the last 2.

Centenary (LA) wins
0
Texas Tech wins
4
Ties
1
First meeting
1936
Longest streak
2 Texas Tech
Current streak
2 Texas Tech
Last 10 meetings
Texas Tech 4–⁠0
Most recent
1941

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠2–⁠1
1940s0–⁠2
Average margin
11.2 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Centenary (LA)
0–⁠1–⁠1 Centenary (LA)‘s record at home
At Texas Tech
3–⁠0 Texas Tech’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. Texas Tech’s biggest win1941: Texas Tech 25, Centenary (LA) 0by 25 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Centenary (LA) and Texas Tech, 1936 on13001500170019401945

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 1940 game: Football Results

    1940 · Evening star, Nov 12, 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.

Every game

Oct 18, 1941Texas Tech 25, Centenary (LA) 0at Texas Tech
Nov 11, 1940Texas Tech 26, Centenary (LA) 6at Texas Tech
Nov 11, 1939Centenary (LA) 0, Texas Tech 0at Centenary (LA)
Nov 20, 1937Texas Tech 7, Centenary (LA) 2at Centenary (LA)
Oct 24, 1936Texas Tech 12, Centenary (LA) 6at Texas Tech

Every game is listed as played on the field.