Drake vs. Tulsa

Drake and Tulsa have 21 meetings on file, the first in 1935; Tulsa leads the series 20–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Tulsa 10–⁠0, and Tulsa has won the last 17.

Drake wins
1
Tulsa wins
20
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1935
Longest streak
17 Tulsa
Current streak
17 Tulsa
Last 10 meetings
Tulsa 10–⁠0
Most recent
1985

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s1–⁠4
1940s0–⁠5
1950s0–⁠1
1970s0–⁠6
1980s0–⁠4
Average margin
27.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Drake
1–⁠8 Drake’s record at home
At Tulsa
12–⁠0 Tulsa’s record at home
Shutouts
5

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Drake’s biggest win1938: Drake 27, Tulsa 7by 20 points
  2. Tulsa’s biggest win1975: Tulsa 70, Drake 7by 63 points

Coach against coach

YearsDrakeSeriesTulsa
1936–⁠1938Vee Green1–⁠2Vic Hurt
1941–⁠1945Vee Green0–⁠3Henry Frnka
1973–⁠1976Jack Wallace0–⁠4F. Dry
1977–⁠1983Chuck Shelton0–⁠5John Cooper

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Drake and Tulsa, 1935 on13001500170019401960198020002020

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 The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1936 game: FOOT BALL 4s1REsULTs

    1936 · The Daily Alaska empire, Nov 16, 1936

  • The Evening star's story of the 1941 game: Football Scores

    1941 · Evening star, Nov 23, 1941

  • The The Waterbury Democrat's story of the 1942 game: TULSA CRIDDERS OWN GREAT RECORD

    1942 · The Waterbury Democrat, Oct 31, 1942

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

Nov 9, 1985Tulsa 45, Drake 15at Tulsa
Nov 5, 1983Tulsa 22, Drake 13at Drake
Oct 23, 1982Tulsa 34, Drake 18at Drake
Oct 31, 1981Tulsa 59, Drake 6at Tulsa
Oct 28, 1978Tulsa 44, Drake 20at Tulsa
Nov 5, 1977Tulsa 33, Drake 23at Drake
Nov 13, 1976Tulsa 45, Drake 20at Drake
Nov 8, 1975Tulsa 70, Drake 7at Tulsa
Nov 16, 1974Tulsa 52, Drake 14at Drake
Oct 6, 1973Tulsa 44, Drake 7at Tulsa
Oct 18, 1958Tulsa 59, Drake 0at Tulsa
Oct 4, 1947Tulsa 28, Drake 14at Tulsa
Oct 5, 1946Tulsa 48, Drake 13at Drake
Oct 6, 1945Tulsa 19, Drake 0at Tulsa
Oct 30, 194215Tulsa 40, Drake 0at Drake
Nov 22, 1941Tulsa 20, Drake 6at Tulsa
Nov 25, 1939Tulsa 14, Drake 0at Tulsa
Nov 12, 1938Drake 27, Tulsa 7at Drake
Nov 6, 1937Tulsa 41, Drake 9at Tulsa
Nov 14, 1936Tulsa 21, Drake 6at Drake
Nov 23, 1935Tulsa 7, Drake 0at Tulsa

Every game is listed as played on the field.