Oregon vs. Texas

Oregon and Texas have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1941; Texas leads the series 4–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Texas 4–⁠2, and Oregon has won the last 2.

Oregon wins
2
Texas wins
4
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1941
Longest streak
4 Texas
Current streak
2 Oregon
Last 10 meetings
Texas 4–⁠2
Most recent
2013

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s0–⁠2
1960s0–⁠1
1970s0–⁠1
2000s1–⁠0
2010s1–⁠0
Both ranked
1 meeting: Oregon 1, Texas 0
Average margin
26.2 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Oregon
0–⁠1 Oregon’s record at home
At Texas
3–⁠0 Texas’s record at home
Neutral sites
2–⁠0 Oregon first

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Oregon’s biggest win2013: Oregon 30, Texas 7by 23 points
  2. Texas’s biggest win1941: Texas 71, Oregon 7by 64 points
  3. Ranked showdown2000: Oregon 35, Texas 30No. 12 Texas at No. 8 Oregon

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Oregon and Texas, 1941 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

Named most valuable

Marcus Mariota2013
Avery Patterson2013
Joey Harrington Oregon2000
Rashad Bauman Oregon2000

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1941 game: Draft Apt Take Hudson From N Already Hard Hit by Losses Service Devastating Blocking Raging Line Play Texas Marks IT. Rou Of Oregon Win, Lose or Draw lote Bottles on the Pro Football Front

    1941 · Evening star, Dec 7, 1941

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 30, 201310Oregon 30, Texas 7AlamodomeAlamo Bowl
Dec 29, 20008Oregon 35, 12Texas 30Neutral siteHoliday Bowl
Oct 2, 19713Texas 35, Oregon 7at Texas
Sep 22, 19622Texas 25, Oregon 13at Texas
Sep 27, 1947Texas 38, Oregon 13at Oregon
Dec 6, 1941Texas 71, Oregon 7at Texas

Every game is listed as played on the field.