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. Share
- 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
- 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
- Nevada’s biggest win1948: Nevada 65, Tulsa 14by 51 points
- Tulsa’s biggest win1945: Tulsa 40, Nevada 0by 40 points
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
| Brandon Diles Tulsa | 34 carries, 202 yards, 3 TD | 2004 Rushing |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).
From the newspapers
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, 2004 | Nevada 54, Tulsa 48 | at Nevada | ||
| Oct 18, 2003 | Nevada 28, Tulsa 21 | at Tulsa | ||
| Nov 25, 2000 | Tulsa 38, Nevada 3 | at Tulsa | ||
| Oct 23, 1948 | 15Nevada 65, Tulsa 14 | at Tulsa | ||
| Oct 25, 1947 | Nevada 21, Tulsa 13 | at Nevada | ||
| Oct 20, 1945 | 18Tulsa 40, Nevada 0 | at Tulsa |
Every game is listed as played on the field.

