Kansas vs. Texas

Kansas and Texas have 22 meetings on file, the first in 1901; Texas leads the series 18–⁠4 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Texas 8–⁠2, and Texas has won the last 2.

Kansas wins
4
Texas wins
18
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1901
Longest streak
13 Texas
Current streak
2 Texas
Last 10 meetings
Texas 8–⁠2
Most recent
2023

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s1–⁠0
1930s1–⁠0
1990s0–⁠2
2000s0–⁠6
2010s1–⁠8
2020s1–⁠2
Both ranked
1 meeting: Kansas 0, Texas 1
Average margin
22 points; 7 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Kansas
3–⁠8 Kansas’s record at home
At Texas
10–⁠1 Texas’s record at home
Shutouts
4

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Kansas’s biggest win1901: Kansas 12, Texas 0by 12 points
  2. Texas’s biggest win2001: Texas 59, Kansas 0by 59 points
  3. Upset2021: Kansas 57, Texas 56Kansas had a 11% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset2016: Kansas 24, Texas 21Kansas had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  5. Ranked showdown2023: Texas 40, Kansas 14No. 24 Kansas at No. 3 Texas

Coach against coach

YearsKansasSeriesTexas
2004–⁠2009Mark Mangino0–⁠4Mack Brown
2021–⁠2023Lance Leipold1–⁠2Steve Sarkisian

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Kansas’s side (Mangino 0–⁠4 against Brown). 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 Texas, 1901 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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

Colt McCoy Texas32 of 41, 396 yards, 4 TD2009 Passing
Sam Ehlinger Texas31 of 44, 399 yards, 4 TD, 1 INT2019 Passing
Bijan Robinson Texas25 carries, 243 yards, 4 TD2022 Rushing
Jonathon Brooks Texas21 carries, 218 yards, 2 TD2023 Rushing
Pooka Williams Jr. Kansas25 carries, 190 yards, 2 TD2019 Rushing
Dorance Armstrong Jr. Kansas11 tackles, 2 sacks, 3 for loss2016 Defense

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 1938 game: Statisties. POINT DECIDES GAME Kansas Trims Texas, 1918, on Extra-Point Boot by Gibbens,

    1938 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 25, 1938

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

Sep 30, 20233Texas 40, 24Kansas 14at Texas
Nov 19, 2022Texas 55, Kansas 14at Kansas
Nov 13, 2021Kansas 57, Texas 56at Texas
Oct 19, 201915Texas 50, Kansas 48at Texas
Nov 23, 201811Texas 24, Kansas 17at Kansas
Nov 11, 2017Texas 42, Kansas 27at Texas
Nov 19, 2016Kansas 24, Texas 21at Kansas
Nov 7, 2015Texas 59, Kansas 20at Texas
Sep 27, 2014Texas 23, Kansas 0at Kansas
Nov 2, 2013Texas 35, Kansas 13at Texas
Oct 27, 2012Texas 21, Kansas 17at Kansas
Oct 29, 2011Texas 43, Kansas 0at Texas
Nov 21, 20093Texas 51, Kansas 20at Texas
Nov 15, 20084Texas 35, Kansas 7at Kansas
Nov 12, 20052Texas 66, Kansas 14at Texas
Nov 13, 20046Texas 27, Kansas 23at Kansas
Nov 10, 20015Texas 59, Kansas 0at Texas
Nov 11, 200019Texas 51, Kansas 16at Kansas
Nov 15, 1997Texas 45, Kansas 31at Texas
Nov 16, 1996Texas 38, Kansas 17at Kansas
Sep 24, 1938Kansas 19, Texas 18at Kansas
Nov 23, 1901Kansas 12, Texas 0at Kansas

Every game is listed as played on the field.