Pacific vs. Texas Tech
Pacific and Texas Tech first met in 1951 and have played 6 times; Texas Tech leads the series 4–2. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Texas Tech 4–2, and Texas Tech has won the last 2. Share
- Pacific wins
- 2
- Texas Tech wins
- 4
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1951
- Longest streak
- 2 Texas Tech
- Current streak
- 2 Texas Tech
- Last 10 meetings
- Texas Tech 4–2
- Most recent
- 1993
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 21 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Pacific
- 2–0 Pacific’s record at home
- At Texas Tech
- 3–0 Texas Tech’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 0–1 Pacific first
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Pacific’s biggest win1952: Pacific 42, Texas Tech 21by 21 points
- Texas Tech’s biggest win1993: Texas Tech 55, Pacific 7by 48 points
- Upset1954: Pacific 20, Texas Tech 7Pacific had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
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
Named most valuable
| Junior Arteburn Texas Tech | 1951 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers

1951 · Evening star, Jan 2, 1952
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 4, 1993 | Texas Tech 55, Pacific 7 | at Texas Tech | ||
| Nov 19, 1955 | Texas Tech 13, Pacific 7 | at Texas Tech | ||
| Oct 23, 1954 | Pacific 20, Texas Tech 7 | at Pacific | ||
| Oct 17, 1953 | Texas Tech 34, Pacific 7 | at Texas Tech | ||
| Oct 4, 1952 | Pacific 42, Texas Tech 21 | at Pacific | ||
| Jan 1, 1952 | Texas Tech 25, Pacific 14 | Neutral site | Sun Bowl |
Every game is listed as played on the field.