Houston vs. Tulsa

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

1. Houston’s biggest win1968: Houston 100, Tulsa 6by 94 points
2. Tulsa’s biggest win2007: Tulsa 56, Houston 7by 49 points
3. Upset2022: Tulsa 37, Houston 30Tulsa had a 21% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1975: Houston 42, Tulsa 30Houston had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1958: Tulsa 25, Houston 20Tulsa had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Houston’s side (Lee 1–⁠2 against Brothers). 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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  1950 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Dec 3, 1950

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  1952 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 12, 1952

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  1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 24, 1957

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. Texas Tech37 meetings, Houston 18–⁠18–⁠1
• Houston vs. SMU37 meetings, Houston 22–⁠14–⁠1
• Houston vs. Texas A&M34 meetings, Houston 12–⁠19–⁠3
• Tulsa vs. Oklahoma State78 meetings, Tulsa 29–⁠44–⁠5
• Tulsa vs. Arkansas70 meetings, Tulsa 16–⁠52–⁠2
• Tulsa vs. Wichita State44 meetings, Tulsa 30–⁠13–⁠1
• Tulsa vs. Cincinnati37 meetings, Tulsa 17–⁠18–⁠2