TCU vs. Texas

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

1. TCU’s biggest win1956: TCU 46, Texas 0by 46 points
2. Texas’s biggest win1915: Texas 72, TCU 0by 72 points
3. Upset1961: TCU 6, Texas 0TCU had a 13% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1967: TCU 24, Texas 17TCU had a 17% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1946: TCU 14, Texas 0TCU had a 17% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown1959: TCU 14, Texas 9No. 18 TCU at No. 2 Texas
7. Ranked showdown2022: TCU 17, Texas 10No. 4 TCU at No. 18 Texas
8. Ranked showdown1984: Texas 44, TCU 23No. 10 Texas at No. 12 TCU

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from TCU’s side (Schmidt 3–⁠2 against Littlefield). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

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

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  1912 · El Paso herald, El Paso, Tex., Oct 7, 1912

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  1930 · Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, Nov 16, 1930

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  1933 · The Washington times, District of Columbia, Nov 20, 1933

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  1934 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 18, 1934

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  1935 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 18, 1935

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.

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game once: 2022.

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA).

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• TCU vs. Baylor116 meetings, TCU 61–⁠50–⁠5
• TCU vs. SMU103 meetings, TCU 54–⁠42–⁠7
• TCU vs. Texas A&M89 meetings, TCU 28–⁠54–⁠7
• TCU vs. Rice79 meetings, TCU 41–⁠35–⁠3
• Texas vs. Oklahoma119 meetings, Texas 62–⁠52–⁠5
• Texas vs. Texas A&M113 meetings, Texas 71–⁠37–⁠5
• Texas vs. Baylor112 meetings, Texas 79–⁠28–⁠5
• Texas vs. Rice97 meetings, Texas 75–⁠21–⁠1