Nevada vs. North Texas

Nevada and North Texas have 9 meetings on file, the first in 1947; Nevada leads the series 7–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 9 meetings it’s Nevada 7–⁠2.

Nevada wins
7
North Texas wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1947
Longest streak
3 Nevada
Current streak
1 Nevada
Last 10 meetings
Nevada 7–⁠2
Most recent
1999

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s3–⁠0
1950s0–⁠1
1990s4–⁠1
Average margin
23.9 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Nevada
5–⁠0 Nevada’s record at home
At North Texas
2–⁠1 North Texas’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0 Nevada first

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Nevada’s biggest win1997: Nevada 65, North Texas 10by 55 points
  2. North Texas’s biggest win1950: North Texas 34, Nevada 21by 13 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Nevada and North Texas, 1947 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.

From the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1949 game

    1949 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Nov 25, 1949

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

Oct 30, 1999Nevada 41, North Texas 28at Nevada
Oct 17, 1998North Texas 27, Nevada 21at North Texas
Oct 25, 1997Nevada 65, North Texas 10at Nevada
Oct 26, 1996Nevada 40, North Texas 13at North Texas
Oct 7, 1995Nevada 56, North Texas 24at Nevada
Nov 18, 1950North Texas 34, Nevada 21at North Texas
Nov 24, 1949Nevada 28, North Texas 7at Nevada
Oct 9, 194819Nevada 48, North Texas 7at Nevada
Jan 1, 1948Nevada 13, North Texas 6Neutral siteSalad Bowl

Every game is listed as played on the field.