Cincinnati vs. North Texas

Cincinnati and North Texas have 17 meetings on file, the first in 1958; North Texas leads the series 9–⁠7–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s North Texas 7–⁠3.

Cincinnati wins
7
North Texas wins
9
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1958
Longest streak
5 North Texas
Current streak
1 North Texas
Last 10 meetings
North Texas 7–⁠3
Most recent
2002

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s0–⁠1–⁠1
1960s4–⁠6
1970s3–⁠1
2000s0–⁠1
Average margin
16.7 points; 5 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Cincinnati
4–⁠4 Cincinnati’s record at home
At North Texas
4–⁠3–⁠1 North Texas’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠1 Cincinnati first
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Cincinnati’s biggest win1973: Cincinnati 52, North Texas 3by 49 points
  2. North Texas’s biggest win1966: North Texas 35, Cincinnati 13by 22 points
  3. Upset1965: North Texas 28, Cincinnati 24North Texas had a 17% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsCincinnatiSeriesNorth Texas
1958–⁠1960George Blackburn1–⁠1–⁠1Odus Mitchell
1961–⁠1966Charles Studley3–⁠3Odus Mitchell
1969–⁠1972Ray Callahan2–⁠2Rod Rust

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Cincinnati and North Texas, 1958 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

Named most valuable

North Texas RB Kevin Galbreath2002

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

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1962 game: PROTEST FILED BY CINCINNATI

    1962 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 23, 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

Dec 17, 2002North Texas 24, Cincinnati 19Caesars SuperdomeNew Orleans Bowl
Nov 3, 1973Cincinnati 52, North Texas 3at Cincinnati
Nov 4, 1972North Texas 27, Cincinnati 25at North Texas
Nov 6, 1971Cincinnati 40, North Texas 7at Cincinnati
Nov 7, 1970Cincinnati 30, North Texas 10at North Texas
Nov 1, 1969North Texas 31, Cincinnati 30at Cincinnati
Nov 2, 1968North Texas 55, Cincinnati 34at North Texas
Oct 28, 1967North Texas 34, Cincinnati 14at Cincinnati
Nov 5, 1966North Texas 35, Cincinnati 13at North Texas
Oct 30, 1965North Texas 28, Cincinnati 24at Cincinnati
Nov 7, 1964Cincinnati 27, North Texas 6at North Texas
Nov 9, 1963Cincinnati 39, North Texas 7at Cincinnati
Oct 20, 1962North Texas 14, Cincinnati 8at North Texas
Oct 28, 1961Cincinnati 21, North Texas 9at Cincinnati
Oct 1, 1960Cincinnati 21, North Texas 0at North Texas
Oct 10, 1959North Texas 21, Cincinnati 6at Cincinnati
Nov 1, 1958North Texas 8, Cincinnati 8at North Texas

Every game is listed as played on the field.