Nevada vs. Tulsa

Nevada and Tulsa have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1945; Nevada leads the series 4–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Nevada 4–⁠2, and Nevada has won the last 2.

Nevada wins
4
Tulsa wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1945
Longest streak
2 Nevada
Current streak
2 Nevada
Last 10 meetings
Nevada 4–⁠2
Most recent
2004

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s2–⁠1
2000s2–⁠1
Average margin
24.5 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Nevada
2–⁠0 Nevada’s record at home
At Tulsa
2–⁠2 Tulsa’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Nevada’s biggest win1948: Nevada 65, Tulsa 14by 51 points
  2. Tulsa’s biggest win1945: Tulsa 40, Nevada 0by 40 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Nevada and Tulsa, 1945 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.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Brandon Diles Tulsa34 carries, 202 yards, 3 TD2004 Rushing

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

From the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story of the 1945 game: SATURDAY CROWNS SEE GRID UPSETS

    1945 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Oct 21, 1945

  • The Evening star's story of the 1948 game: Nevada Retains Biq Edge Among College Teams in Yardage

    1948 · Evening star, Oct 27, 1948

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 23, 2004Nevada 54, Tulsa 48at Nevada
Oct 18, 2003Nevada 28, Tulsa 21at Tulsa
Nov 25, 2000Tulsa 38, Nevada 3at Tulsa
Oct 23, 194815Nevada 65, Tulsa 14at Tulsa
Oct 25, 1947Nevada 21, Tulsa 13at Nevada
Oct 20, 194518Tulsa 40, Nevada 0at Tulsa

Every game is listed as played on the field.