Hardin Simmons vs. West Texas

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

1. Hardin Simmons’s biggest win1942: Hardin Simmons 40, West Texas 0by 40 points
2. West Texas’s biggest win1961: West Texas 42, Hardin Simmons 0by 42 points
3. Upset1949: West Texas 19, Hardin Simmons 7West Texas had a 31% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Hardin Simmons’s side (Woodson 3–⁠2 against Kimbrough). 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.

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  1961 · Evening star, Oct 25, 1961

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.

• Hardin Simmons vs. UTEP23 meetings, Hardin Simmons 16–⁠6–⁠1
• Hardin Simmons vs. Arizona State21 meetings, Hardin Simmons 13–⁠8
• Hardin Simmons vs. Texas Tech18 meetings, Hardin Simmons 4–⁠12–⁠2
• Hardin Simmons vs. Baylor14 meetings, Hardin Simmons 1–⁠13
• West Texas vs. New Mexico State39 meetings, West Texas 26–⁠11–⁠2
• West Texas vs. UTEP26 meetings, West Texas 9–⁠17
• West Texas vs. Wichita State22 meetings, West Texas 11–⁠11
• West Texas vs. Texas Tech20 meetings, West Texas 4–⁠16