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.

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

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s2–⁠3
1990s0–⁠1
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

  1. Pacific’s biggest win1952: Pacific 42, Texas Tech 21by 21 points
  2. Texas Tech’s biggest win1993: Texas Tech 55, Pacific 7by 48 points
  3. Upset1954: Pacific 20, Texas Tech 7Pacific had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Pacific and Texas Tech, 1951 on1300150017001960197019801990

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 Tech1951

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

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1951 game: Texas Tech Smashes Sun Bowl Jinx in Win |0verCoIIege Of Pacific

    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, 1993Texas Tech 55, Pacific 7at Texas Tech
Nov 19, 1955Texas Tech 13, Pacific 7at Texas Tech
Oct 23, 1954Pacific 20, Texas Tech 7at Pacific
Oct 17, 1953Texas Tech 34, Pacific 7at Texas Tech
Oct 4, 1952Pacific 42, Texas Tech 21at Pacific
Jan 1, 1952Texas Tech 25, Pacific 14Neutral siteSun Bowl

Every game is listed as played on the field.