Tennessee vs. Texas

Tennessee and Texas have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1950; Texas leads the series 3–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Texas 3–⁠1, and Texas has won the last 3.

Scheduled 2028 at Texas. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).

Tennessee wins
1
Texas wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1950
Longest streak
3 Texas
Current streak
3 Texas
Last 10 meetings
Texas 3–⁠1
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
1950s1–⁠1
1960s0–⁠1
2020s0–⁠1
Both ranked
4 meetings: Tennessee 1, Texas 3; 3 both in the top 10
Average margin
12 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Tennessee
0–⁠1 Tennessee’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠2 Tennessee first
Shutouts
1

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Tennessee and Texas, 1950 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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

Colin Simmons Texas8 tackles, 5 sacks, 5 for loss2026 Defense

Named most valuable

Tom Campbell Texas1968
Cotton Speyrer Texas1968
James Street Texas1968
Andy Kozar Tennessee1950
Hank Lauricella Tennessee1950
Horace Sherrod Tennessee1950
Bud McFadin Texas1950

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1950 game

    1950 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Jan 2, 1951

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.

On television

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game once: 2026.

2026ABC9.8 million viewers

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA). Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game

Sep 26, 20261Texas 20, 14Tennessee 17at Tennessee
Jan 1, 19695Texas 36, 8Tennessee 13Neutral siteCotton Bowl
Jan 1, 195310Texas 16, 9Tennessee 0Neutral siteCotton Bowl
Jan 1, 19519Tennessee 20, 5Texas 14Neutral siteCotton Bowl

Every game is listed as played on the field.