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. Share
- 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
- 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
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 LSU | 29 carries, 212 yards, 4 TD | 2015 Rushing |
Named most valuable
| LSU RB Leonard Fournette | 2015 |
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

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, 2015 | 22LSU 56, Texas Tech 27vacated | NRG Stadium | Texas Bowl | |
| Oct 5, 1957 | LSU 19, Texas Tech 14 | at Texas Tech | ||
| Oct 16, 1954 | LSU 20, 20Texas Tech 13 | at 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.