Oklahoma vs. Temple

Oklahoma and Temple have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1940; Oklahoma leads the series 3–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Oklahoma 3–⁠1, and Oklahoma has won the last 2.

Scheduled 2028 at Oklahoma. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).

Oklahoma wins
3
Temple wins
1
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1940
Longest streak
2 Oklahoma
Current streak
2 Oklahoma
Last 10 meetings
Oklahoma 3–⁠1
Most recent
2025

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s1–⁠1
2020s2–⁠0
Average margin
24.3 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Oklahoma
2–⁠0 Oklahoma’s record at home
At Temple
1–⁠1 Temple’s record at home

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 Oklahoma and Temple, 1940 on130015001700194019501960197019801990200020102020

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 Key West citizen's story of the 1940 game

    1940 · The Key West citizen, Florida, Nov 25, 1940

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

Sep 13, 202513Oklahoma 42, Temple 3at Temple
Aug 30, 202416Oklahoma 51, Temple 3at Oklahoma
Nov 21, 1942Temple 14, Oklahoma 7at Temple
Nov 23, 1940Oklahoma 9, Temple 6at Oklahoma

Every game is listed as played on the field.