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Hardin Simmons vs. Howard Payne

Hardin Simmons and Howard Payne first met in 1939 and have played 12 times; Hardin Simmons leads the series 12–⁠0. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Hardin Simmons 10–⁠0, and Hardin Simmons has won the last 12.

Hardin Simmons wins
12
Howard Payne wins
0
Ties
0
First meeting
1939
Longest streak
12 Hardin Simmons
Current streak
12 Hardin Simmons
Last 10 meetings
Hardin Simmons 10–⁠0
Most recent
2025

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s1–⁠0
1940s4–⁠0
2020s7–⁠0
Average margin
22.7 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Hardin Simmons
9–⁠0 Hardin Simmons’s record at home
At Howard Payne
0–⁠3 Howard Payne’s record at home
Shutouts
3

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Hardin Simmons’s biggest win2025: Hardin Simmons 69, Howard Payne 14by 55 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Hardin Simmons and Howard Payne, 1939 on130015001700194019501960197019801990200020102020

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 1946 game: FOOTBALL q SCORES

    1946 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Nov 23, 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.

Every game

Oct 31, 2026Hardin Simmons at Howard Payne upcomingat Howard Payne
Nov 1, 2025Hardin Simmons 54, Howard Payne 24at Howard Payne
Oct 4, 2025Hardin Simmons 69, Howard Payne 14at Hardin Simmons
Nov 2, 2024Hardin Simmons 44, Howard Payne 17at Hardin Simmons
Sep 7, 2024Hardin Simmons 38, Howard Payne 6at Howard Payne
Sep 30, 2023Hardin Simmons 40, Howard Payne 33at Hardin Simmons
Oct 29, 2022Hardin Simmons 28, Howard Payne 19at Hardin Simmons
Mar 13, 2021Hardin Simmons 41, Howard Payne 14at Hardin Simmons
Nov 23, 1946Hardin Simmons 33, Howard Payne 0at Hardin Simmons
Sep 19, 1942Hardin Simmons 12, Howard Payne 0at Hardin Simmons
Nov 29, 1941Hardin Simmons 13, Howard Payne 7at Hardin Simmons
Oct 19, 1940Hardin Simmons 27, Howard Payne 7at Howard Payne
Sep 30, 1939Hardin Simmons 14, Howard Payne 0at Hardin Simmons

Every game is listed as played on the field.