Syracuse vs. Texas
Syracuse and Texas have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1959; Syracuse leads the series 2–0–1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Syracuse 2–0. Share
- Syracuse wins
- 2
- Texas wins
- 0
- Ties
- 1
- Earliest on file
- 1959
- Longest streak
- 2 Syracuse
- Current streak
- 0 tie
- Last 10 meetings
- Syracuse 2–0
- Most recent
- 1993
The series at a glance
- Both ranked
- 1 meeting: Syracuse 1, Texas 0; 1 both in the top 10
- Average margin
- 6.3 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Syracuse
- 1–0 Syracuse’s record at home
- At Texas
- 0–0–1 Texas’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–0 Syracuse first
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
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
| Ernie Davis Syracuse | 1959 |
| Maurice Doke Texas | 1959 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1959 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Jan 2, 1960
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 18, 1993 | Texas 21, 6Syracuse 21 | at Texas | ||
| Sep 12, 1992 | 9Syracuse 31, Texas 21 | at Syracuse | ||
| Jan 1, 1960 | 1Syracuse 23, 4Texas 14 | Neutral site | Cotton Bowl |
Every game is listed as played on the field.