Houston vs. Texas

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

1. Houston’s biggest win1988: Houston 66, Texas 15by 51 points
2. Texas’s biggest win1982: Texas 50, Houston 0by 50 points
3. Upset1984: Houston 29, Texas 15Houston had a 13% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1976: Houston 30, Texas 0Houston had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1987: Houston 60, Texas 40Houston had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown1979: Texas 21, Houston 13No. 8 Texas at No. 5 Houston
7. Ranked showdown1978: Houston 10, Texas 7No. 8 Houston at No. 6 Texas
8. Ranked showdown1968: Houston 20, Texas 20 (tie)No. 11 Houston at No. 4 Texas

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Houston’s side (Yeoman 2–⁠7–⁠1 against Akers). 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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  1953 · Evening star, Oct 4, 1953

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
• Texas vs. Oklahoma119 meetings, Texas 62–⁠52–⁠5
• Texas vs. Texas A&M113 meetings, Texas 71–⁠37–⁠5
• Texas vs. Baylor112 meetings, Texas 79–⁠28–⁠5
• Texas vs. Rice97 meetings, Texas 75–⁠21–⁠1