Rice vs. Tulsa

Rice and Tulsa have 21 meetings on file, the first in 1937; Tulsa leads the series 11–⁠9–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Tulsa 7–⁠3.

Rice wins
9
Tulsa wins
11
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1937
Longest streak
6 Tulsa
Current streak
1 Tulsa
Last 10 meetings
Tulsa 7–⁠3
Most recent
2026

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠0–⁠1
1990s4–⁠0
2000s3–⁠7
2010s1–⁠3
2020s1–⁠1
Average margin
15.4 points; 7 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Rice
3–⁠7–⁠1 Rice’s record at home
At Tulsa
4–⁠6 Tulsa’s record at home

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Rice’s biggest win2023: Rice 42, Tulsa 10by 32 points
  2. Tulsa’s biggest win2010: Tulsa 64, Rice 27by 37 points
  3. Upset2006: Rice 41, Tulsa 38Rice had a 21% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset2000: Tulsa 23, Rice 16Tulsa had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  5. Upset2023: Rice 42, Tulsa 10Rice had a 31% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsRiceSeriesTulsa
1996–⁠1999Ken Hatfield4–⁠0David Rader
2000–⁠2002Ken Hatfield2–⁠1Keith Burns
2003–⁠2005Ken Hatfield0–⁠3Steve Kragthorpe
2007–⁠2010David Bailiff0–⁠4Todd Graham
2011–⁠2013David Bailiff1–⁠2Bill Blankenship

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Rice’s side (Hatfield 4–⁠0 against Rader). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Rice and Tulsa, 1937 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.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Chase Clement Rice40 of 66, 541 yards, 3 TD, 1 INT2007 Passing
Paul Smith Tulsa22 of 39, 441 yards, 5 TD, 1 INT2007 Passing
Brennan Marion Tulsa7 catches, 244 yards, 2 TD2007 Receiving

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

From the newspapers

  • The The times-news. (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current's story of the 1937 game: FOOTBALL RESULTS SOUTH

    1937 · The times-news. (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, North Carolina, Oct 18, 1937

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 17, 2026Tulsa 38, Rice 17at Rice
Oct 19, 2023Rice 42, Tulsa 10at Tulsa
Oct 5, 2013Rice 30, Tulsa 27at Tulsa
Oct 20, 2012Tulsa 28, Rice 24at Tulsa
Oct 22, 2011Tulsa 38, Rice 20at Rice
Nov 6, 2010Tulsa 64, Rice 27at Tulsa
Oct 3, 2009Tulsa 27, Rice 10at Rice
Oct 4, 2008Tulsa 63, Rice 28at Tulsa
Nov 24, 2007Tulsa 48, Rice 43at Rice
Nov 11, 2006Rice 41, Tulsa 38at Tulsa
Oct 15, 2005Tulsa 41, Rice 21at Rice
Oct 30, 2004Tulsa 39, Rice 22at Tulsa
Nov 8, 2003Tulsa 31, Rice 28at Rice
Nov 2, 2002Rice 33, Tulsa 18at Tulsa
Nov 10, 2001Rice 59, Tulsa 32at Rice
Sep 16, 2000Tulsa 23, Rice 16at Rice
Oct 2, 1999Rice 20, Tulsa 10at Tulsa
Oct 17, 1998Rice 14, Tulsa 10at Rice
Oct 4, 1997Rice 42, Tulsa 24at Tulsa
Nov 23, 1996Rice 42, Tulsa 14at Rice
Oct 16, 1937Rice 0, Tulsa 0at Rice

Every game is listed as played on the field.