Cincinnati vs. Tulsa

Cincinnati and Tulsa have 37 meetings on file, the first in 1946; Cincinnati leads the series 18–⁠17–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Cincinnati 9–⁠1, and Cincinnati has won the last 4.

Cincinnati wins
18
Tulsa wins
17
Ties
2
Earliest on file
1946
Longest streak
8 Tulsa
Current streak
4 Cincinnati
Last 10 meetings
Cincinnati 9–⁠1
Most recent
2022

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
1950s5–⁠2–⁠2
1960s2–⁠8
1970s2–⁠4
1980s0–⁠1
1990s4–⁠0
2010s2–⁠1
2020s3–⁠0
Both ranked
1 meeting: Cincinnati 1, Tulsa 0
Average margin
11.8 points; 16 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Cincinnati
13–⁠5 Cincinnati’s record at home
At Tulsa
12–⁠5–⁠2 Tulsa’s record at home
Shutouts
4

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Cincinnati’s biggest win1954: Cincinnati 40, Tulsa 7by 33 points
  2. Tulsa’s biggest win1965: Tulsa 49, Cincinnati 6by 43 points
  3. Upset1953: Cincinnati 14, Tulsa 7Cincinnati had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Ranked showdown2020: Cincinnati 27, Tulsa 24No. 20 Tulsa at No. 6 Cincinnati

Coach against coach

YearsCincinnatiSeriesTulsa
1955–⁠1960George Blackburn2–⁠3–⁠1Robert Dobbs
1961–⁠1966Charles Studley2–⁠4Glenn Dobbs
1973–⁠1976Tony Mason1–⁠2F. Dry
1977–⁠1980Ralph Staub1–⁠2John Cooper
1994–⁠1997Rick Minter3–⁠0David Rader
2019–⁠2022Luke Fickell4–⁠0Philip Montgomery

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Cincinnati’s side (Blackburn 2–⁠3–⁠1 against Dobbs). 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 Tulsa, 1946 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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

Desmond Ridder Cincinnati2020

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

From the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1946 game: FOOTBALL SCORES

    1946 · The Daily Alaska empire, Nov 4, 1946

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: 2021.

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA).

Every game

Oct 1, 2022Cincinnati 31, Tulsa 21at Tulsa
Nov 6, 20212Cincinnati 28, Tulsa 20at Cincinnati
Dec 19, 20206Cincinnati 27, 20Tulsa 24at CincinnatiAmerican Athletic Championship Game
Oct 19, 201921Cincinnati 24, Tulsa 13at Cincinnati
Nov 25, 2016Tulsa 40, Cincinnati 37at Tulsa
Nov 14, 2015Cincinnati 49, Tulsa 38at Cincinnati
Aug 28, 1997Cincinnati 34, Tulsa 24at Cincinnati
Nov 18, 1995Cincinnati 24, Tulsa 5at Tulsa
Nov 19, 1994Cincinnati 28, Tulsa 13at Cincinnati
Oct 2, 1993Cincinnati 22, Tulsa 15at Tulsa
Sep 13, 1980Tulsa 31, Cincinnati 13at Tulsa
Oct 21, 1978Tulsa 27, Cincinnati 26at Cincinnati
Oct 22, 1977Cincinnati 28, Tulsa 0at Cincinnati
Oct 16, 1976Cincinnati 16, Tulsa 7at Cincinnati
Oct 11, 1975Tulsa 24, Cincinnati 16at Tulsa
Sep 29, 1973Tulsa 16, Cincinnati 13at Tulsa
Sep 12, 1970Tulsa 7, Cincinnati 3at Tulsa
Oct 25, 1969Tulsa 40, Cincinnati 24at Tulsa
Oct 26, 1968Tulsa 34, Cincinnati 27at Cincinnati
Oct 21, 1967Tulsa 35, Cincinnati 6at Tulsa
Oct 29, 1966Tulsa 13, Cincinnati 0at Cincinnati
Oct 23, 1965Tulsa 49, Cincinnati 6at Tulsa
Oct 24, 1964Cincinnati 28, Tulsa 23at Cincinnati
Oct 12, 1963Cincinnati 21, Tulsa 15at Tulsa
Nov 3, 1962Tulsa 24, Cincinnati 18at Cincinnati
Nov 4, 1961Tulsa 19, Cincinnati 0at Tulsa
Oct 22, 1960Tulsa 34, Cincinnati 3at Cincinnati
Nov 7, 1959Tulsa 14, Cincinnati 7at Tulsa
Nov 8, 1958Cincinnati 15, Tulsa 6at Cincinnati
Nov 16, 1957Tulsa 12, Cincinnati 7at Tulsa
Sep 29, 1956Cincinnati 7, Tulsa 6at Cincinnati
Oct 22, 1955Tulsa 21, Cincinnati 21at Tulsa
Oct 2, 1954Cincinnati 40, Tulsa 7at Cincinnati
Sep 19, 1953Cincinnati 14, Tulsa 7at Tulsa
Oct 4, 1952Tulsa 14, Cincinnati 14at Tulsa
Sep 29, 1951Cincinnati 47, Tulsa 35at Cincinnati
Nov 2, 1946Tulsa 20, Cincinnati 0at Tulsa

Every game is listed as played on the field.