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. Share
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
- 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
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 Texas | 8 tackles, 5 sacks, 5 for loss | 2026 Defense |
Named most valuable
| Tom Campbell Texas | 1968 |
| Cotton Speyrer Texas | 1968 |
| James Street Texas | 1968 |
| Andy Kozar Tennessee | 1950 |
| Hank Lauricella Tennessee | 1950 |
| Horace Sherrod Tennessee | 1950 |
| Bud McFadin Texas | 1950 |
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

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.
| 2026 | ABC | 9.8 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, 2026 | 1Texas 20, 14Tennessee 17 | at Tennessee | ||
| Jan 1, 1969 | 5Texas 36, 8Tennessee 13 | Neutral site | Cotton Bowl | |
| Jan 1, 1953 | 10Texas 16, 9Tennessee 0 | Neutral site | Cotton Bowl | |
| Jan 1, 1951 | 9Tennessee 20, 5Texas 14 | Neutral site | Cotton Bowl |
Every game is listed as played on the field.