Kansas vs. TCU

Kansas and TCU have 40 meetings on file, the first in 1942; TCU leads the series 27–⁠9–⁠4 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s TCU 9–⁠1, and TCU has won the last 5.

Kansas wins
9
TCU wins
27
Ties
4
Earliest on file
1942
Longest streak
6 TCU
Current streak
5 TCU
Last 10 meetings
TCU 9–⁠1
Most recent
2024

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s0–⁠5–⁠2
1950s2–⁠7–⁠1
1960s2–⁠3
1980s1–⁠0–⁠1
1990s3–⁠1
2010s1–⁠7
2020s0–⁠4
Both ranked
1 meeting: Kansas 0, TCU 1
Average margin
13.8 points; 15 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Kansas
7–⁠12 Kansas’s record at home
At TCU
12–⁠2–⁠2 TCU’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠3–⁠2 Kansas first
Shutouts
8

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Kansas’s biggest win1996: Kansas 52, TCU 17by 35 points
  2. TCU’s biggest win2017: TCU 43, Kansas 0by 43 points
  3. Upset1962: TCU 6, Kansas 3TCU had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset2018: Kansas 27, TCU 26Kansas had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  5. Upset1949: TCU 28, Kansas 0TCU had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  6. Ranked showdown2022: TCU 38, Kansas 31No. 17 TCU at No. 19 Kansas

Coach against coach

YearsKansasSeriesTCU
1948–⁠1952Jules Sikes2–⁠3Dutch Meyer
1954–⁠1957Chuck Mather0–⁠3–⁠1Abe Martin
1958–⁠1964Jack Mitchell2–⁠5Abe Martin
1994–⁠1996Glen Mason2–⁠1Pat Sullivan
2015–⁠2018David Beaty1–⁠3Gary Patterson

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Kansas’s side (Sikes 2–⁠3 against Meyer). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Kansas and TCU, 1942 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Quentin Johnston TCU14 catches, 206 yards, 1 TD2022 Receiving

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

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1942 game: Powerful 7. T.. j. Runs Over Kansas for 41-6 Triumph

    1942 · Evening star, Oct 11, 1942

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story of the 1946 game: LATE SATURDAY FOOTBALL SCORES

    1946 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Sep 23, 1946

  • The Evening star's story of the 1951 game: Robertson Passing Gives Kansas Upset lover TCU, II to IS

    1951 · Evening star, Sep 23, 1951

  • The Evening star's story of the 1954 game: .Sophs Save Frogs After Jayhawkers T1wart First Team

    1954 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 19, 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.

On television

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game once: 2022.

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA).

Every game

Oct 31, 2026Kansas at TCU upcomingat TCU
Sep 28, 2024TCU 38, Kansas 27GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium
Oct 8, 202217TCU 38, 19Kansas 31at Kansas
Nov 20, 2021TCU 31, Kansas 28at TCU
Nov 28, 2020TCU 59, Kansas 23at Kansas
Sep 28, 2019TCU 51, Kansas 14at TCU
Oct 27, 2018Kansas 27, TCU 26at Kansas
Oct 21, 20174TCU 43, Kansas 0at TCU
Oct 8, 2016TCU 24, Kansas 23at Kansas
Nov 14, 201513TCU 23, Kansas 17at TCU
Nov 15, 20145TCU 34, Kansas 30at Kansas
Oct 12, 2013TCU 27, Kansas 17at TCU
Sep 15, 201216TCU 20, Kansas 6at Kansas
Sep 6, 1997Kansas 17, TCU 10at Kansas
Sep 14, 199624Kansas 52, TCU 17at TCU
Sep 14, 1995Kansas 38, TCU 20at Kansas
Sep 17, 1994TCU 31, Kansas 21at TCU
Sep 10, 1983TCU 16, Kansas 16at TCU
Sep 18, 1982Kansas 30, TCU 19at Kansas
Sep 19, 1964Kansas 7, TCU 3at Kansas
Sep 21, 1963TCU 10, Kansas 6at TCU
Sep 22, 1962TCU 6, Kansas 3at Kansas
Sep 23, 1961TCU 17, Kansas 16at TCU
Sep 17, 1960Kansas 21, 11TCU 7at Kansas
Sep 19, 195913TCU 14, Kansas 7at TCU
Sep 20, 19588TCU 42, Kansas 0at Kansas
Sep 21, 1957TCU 13, Kansas 13at TCU
Sep 22, 19567TCU 32, Kansas 0at Kansas
Sep 17, 1955TCU 47, Kansas 14at TCU
Sep 18, 1954TCU 27, Kansas 6at Kansas
Sep 19, 1953TCU 13, Kansas 0at TCU
Sep 20, 1952Kansas 13, TCU 0at Kansas
Sep 22, 1951Kansas 27, TCU 13at TCU
Sep 23, 1950TCU 14, Kansas 7at Kansas
Sep 17, 1949TCU 28, Kansas 0at Kansas
Sep 18, 1948TCU 14, Kansas 13at Kansas
Sep 20, 1947TCU 0, Kansas 0Neutral site
Sep 21, 1946TCU 0, Kansas 0Neutral site
Sep 22, 1945TCU 18, Kansas 0Neutral site
Sep 23, 1944TCU 7, Kansas 0Neutral site
Oct 10, 1942TCU 41, Kansas 6at TCU

Every game is listed as played on the field.