LSU vs. Texas Tech

LSU and Texas Tech have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1954; officially, LSU leads 2–⁠0; as played, 3–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s LSU 3–⁠0, and LSU has won the last 3. The NCAA vacated LSU’s win (2015); it doesn’t count officially. This page counts every game as it was played.

Official series
LSU leads 2–⁠0
LSU wins on file
3
Texas Tech wins on file
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1954
Longest streak
3 LSU
Current streak
3 LSU
Last 10 meetings
LSU 3–⁠0
Most recent
2015

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s2–⁠0
2010s1–⁠0
Average margin
13.7 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At LSU
1–⁠0 LSU’s record at home
At Texas Tech
0–⁠1 Texas Tech’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0 LSU first

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of LSU and Texas Tech, 1954 on13001500170019001960197019801990200020102020

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

Leonard Fournette LSU29 carries, 212 yards, 4 TD2015 Rushing

Named most valuable

LSU RB Leonard Fournette2015

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1954 game: Chuck Johns Leads LSU Over Texas Tech, 20.13

    1954 · Evening star, Oct 17, 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.

Every game

Dec 29, 201522LSU 56, Texas Tech 27vacatedNRG StadiumTexas Bowl
Oct 5, 1957LSU 19, Texas Tech 14at Texas Tech
Oct 16, 1954LSU 20, 20Texas Tech 13at LSU

Every game is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.