Houston vs. Louisville

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

1. Houston’s biggest win1996: Houston 38, Louisville 7by 31 points
2. Louisville’s biggest win2004: Louisville 65, Houston 27by 38 points
3. Upset2002: Houston 27, Louisville 10Houston had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1984: Louisville 30, Houston 28Louisville had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2015: Houston 34, Louisville 31Houston had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Houston’s side (Dimel 1–⁠2 against Smith). 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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1963 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Dec 15, 1963

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.

• Houston vs. Rice47 meetings, Houston 35–⁠12
• Houston vs. Tulsa46 meetings, Houston 26–⁠20
• Houston vs. Texas Tech37 meetings, Houston 18–⁠18–⁠1
• Houston vs. SMU37 meetings, Houston 22–⁠14–⁠1
• Louisville vs. Cincinnati46 meetings, Louisville 23–⁠22–⁠1
• Louisville vs. Memphis41 meetings, Louisville 24–⁠17
• Louisville vs. Kentucky34 meetings, Louisville 17–⁠17
• Louisville vs. Southern Miss26 meetings, Louisville 10–⁠15–⁠1