Cincinnati vs. Houston

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

1. Cincinnati’s biggest win2024: Cincinnati 34, Houston 0by 34 points
2. Houston’s biggest win1972: Houston 49, Cincinnati 0by 49 points
3. Upset1965: Houston 21, Cincinnati 6Houston had a 31% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Ranked showdown2021: Cincinnati 35, Houston 20No. 16 Houston at No. 3 Cincinnati

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Cincinnati’s side (Blackburn 0–⁠4 against Lahar). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

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).

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  1962 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Dec 2, 1962

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Cincinnati vs. Miami (OH)71 meetings, Cincinnati 36–⁠34–⁠1
• Cincinnati vs. Louisville46 meetings, Cincinnati 22–⁠23–⁠1
• Cincinnati vs. Memphis37 meetings, Cincinnati 14–⁠23
• Cincinnati vs. Tulsa37 meetings, Cincinnati 18–⁠17–⁠2
• Houston vs. Rice47 meetings, Houston 35–⁠12
• Houston vs. Tulsa46 meetings, Houston 26–⁠20
• Houston vs. Texas Tech37 meetings, Houston 18–⁠18–⁠1
• Houston vs. SMU37 meetings, Houston 22–⁠14–⁠1