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. Share
- 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
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 0–5–2 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 2–7–1 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 2–3 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 1–0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 3–1 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 1–7 | ||||||||||
| 2020s | 0–4 |
- 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
- Kansas’s biggest win1996: Kansas 52, TCU 17by 35 points
- TCU’s biggest win2017: TCU 43, Kansas 0by 43 points
- Upset1962: TCU 6, Kansas 3TCU had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset2018: Kansas 27, TCU 26Kansas had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1949: TCU 28, Kansas 0TCU had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Ranked showdown2022: TCU 38, Kansas 31No. 17 TCU at No. 19 Kansas
Coach against coach
| Years | Kansas | Series | TCU |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948–1952 | Jules Sikes | 2–3 | Dutch Meyer |
| 1954–1957 | Chuck Mather | 0–3–1 | Abe Martin |
| 1958–1964 | Jack Mitchell | 2–5 | Abe Martin |
| 1994–1996 | Glen Mason | 2–1 | Pat Sullivan |
| 2015–2018 | David Beaty | 1–3 | Gary 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
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 TCU | 14 catches, 206 yards, 1 TD | 2022 Receiving |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).
From the newspapers

1942 · Evening star, Oct 11, 1942

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

1951 · Evening star, Sep 23, 1951

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, 2026 | Kansas at TCU upcoming | at TCU | ||
| Sep 28, 2024 | TCU 38, Kansas 27 | GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium | ||
| Oct 8, 2022 | 17TCU 38, 19Kansas 31 | at Kansas | ||
| Nov 20, 2021 | TCU 31, Kansas 28 | at TCU | ||
| Nov 28, 2020 | TCU 59, Kansas 23 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 28, 2019 | TCU 51, Kansas 14 | at TCU | ||
| Oct 27, 2018 | Kansas 27, TCU 26 | at Kansas | ||
| Oct 21, 2017 | 4TCU 43, Kansas 0 | at TCU | ||
| Oct 8, 2016 | TCU 24, Kansas 23 | at Kansas | ||
| Nov 14, 2015 | 13TCU 23, Kansas 17 | at TCU | ||
| Nov 15, 2014 | 5TCU 34, Kansas 30 | at Kansas | ||
| Oct 12, 2013 | TCU 27, Kansas 17 | at TCU | ||
| Sep 15, 2012 | 16TCU 20, Kansas 6 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 6, 1997 | Kansas 17, TCU 10 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 14, 1996 | 24Kansas 52, TCU 17 | at TCU | ||
| Sep 14, 1995 | Kansas 38, TCU 20 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 17, 1994 | TCU 31, Kansas 21 | at TCU | ||
| Sep 10, 1983 | TCU 16, Kansas 16 | at TCU | ||
| Sep 18, 1982 | Kansas 30, TCU 19 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 19, 1964 | Kansas 7, TCU 3 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 21, 1963 | TCU 10, Kansas 6 | at TCU | ||
| Sep 22, 1962 | TCU 6, Kansas 3 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 23, 1961 | TCU 17, Kansas 16 | at TCU | ||
| Sep 17, 1960 | Kansas 21, 11TCU 7 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 19, 1959 | 13TCU 14, Kansas 7 | at TCU | ||
| Sep 20, 1958 | 8TCU 42, Kansas 0 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 21, 1957 | TCU 13, Kansas 13 | at TCU | ||
| Sep 22, 1956 | 7TCU 32, Kansas 0 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 17, 1955 | TCU 47, Kansas 14 | at TCU | ||
| Sep 18, 1954 | TCU 27, Kansas 6 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 19, 1953 | TCU 13, Kansas 0 | at TCU | ||
| Sep 20, 1952 | Kansas 13, TCU 0 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 22, 1951 | Kansas 27, TCU 13 | at TCU | ||
| Sep 23, 1950 | TCU 14, Kansas 7 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 17, 1949 | TCU 28, Kansas 0 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 18, 1948 | TCU 14, Kansas 13 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 20, 1947 | TCU 0, Kansas 0 | Neutral site | ||
| Sep 21, 1946 | TCU 0, Kansas 0 | Neutral site | ||
| Sep 22, 1945 | TCU 18, Kansas 0 | Neutral site | ||
| Sep 23, 1944 | TCU 7, Kansas 0 | Neutral site | ||
| Oct 10, 1942 | TCU 41, Kansas 6 | at TCU |
Every game is listed as played on the field.