TCU vs. Texas Tech

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

1. TCU’s biggest win2014: TCU 82, Texas Tech 27by 55 points
2. Texas Tech’s biggest win1985: Texas Tech 63, TCU 7by 56 points
3. Upset1972: TCU 31, Texas Tech 7TCU had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2016: Texas Tech 27, TCU 24Texas Tech had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1943: Texas Tech 40, TCU 20Texas Tech had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown2006: TCU 12, Texas Tech 3No. 24 Texas Tech at No. 20 TCU

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from TCU’s side (Bell 3–⁠0 against Freeland). 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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  1943 · The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., Nov 8, 1943

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  1944 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 12, 1944

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  1945 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Nov 12, 1945

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  1956 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 11, 1956

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  1962 · Evening star, Oct 15, 1962

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 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. Texas91 meetings, TCU 28–⁠62–⁠1
• TCU vs. Texas A&M89 meetings, TCU 28–⁠54–⁠7
• Texas Tech vs. Baylor83 meetings, Texas Tech 40–⁠42–⁠1
• Texas Tech vs. Texas73 meetings, Texas Tech 18–⁠55
• Texas Tech vs. Texas A&M70 meetings, Texas Tech 32–⁠37–⁠1
• Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma State52 meetings, Texas Tech 25–⁠24–⁠3