Houston vs. Texas Tech

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

1. Houston’s biggest win1977: Houston 45, Texas Tech 7by 38 points
2. Texas Tech’s biggest win1993: Texas Tech 58, Houston 7by 51 points
3. Upset2017: Texas Tech 27, Houston 24Texas Tech had a 31% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1976: Houston 27, Texas Tech 19Houston had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Ranked showdown1976: Houston 27, Texas Tech 19No. 9 Houston at No. 5 Texas Tech
6. Ranked showdown1989: Houston 40, Texas Tech 24No. 18 Texas Tech at No. 13 Houston
7. Ranked showdown2026: Texas Tech 28, Houston 26No. 22 Houston at No. 13 Texas Tech

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Houston’s side (Lee 2–⁠2 against Weaver). 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, District of Columbia, Nov 22, 1953

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  1954 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 21, 1954

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.

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

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. SMU37 meetings, Houston 22–⁠14–⁠1
• Houston vs. Texas A&M34 meetings, Houston 12–⁠19–⁠3
• Texas Tech vs. Baylor83 meetings, Texas Tech 40–⁠42–⁠1
• Texas Tech vs. Texas73 meetings, Texas Tech 18–⁠55
• Texas Tech vs. Texas A&M70 meetings, Texas Tech 32–⁠37–⁠1
• Texas Tech vs. TCU67 meetings, Texas Tech 33–⁠31–⁠3