Tennessee vs. Tulane

Tennessee and Tulane have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1923; Tennessee leads the series 4–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Tennessee 4–⁠1, and Tennessee has won the last 3.

Tennessee wins
4
Tulane wins
1
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1923
Longest streak
3 Tennessee
Current streak
3 Tennessee
Last 10 meetings
Tennessee 4–⁠1
Most recent
1967

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s1–⁠1
1960s3–⁠0
Average margin
17.8 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Tennessee
3–⁠0 Tennessee’s record at home
At Tulane
1–⁠1 Tulane’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Tennessee’s biggest win1963: Tennessee 26, Tulane 0by 26 points
  2. Tulane’s biggest win1924: Tulane 26, Tennessee 7by 19 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Tennessee and Tulane, 1923 on13001500170019401960198020002020

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.

From the newspapers

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story of the 1923 game: TENNESSEE FAKES BEAT TULANE l3-2

    1923 · The Birmingham age-herald, Nov 4, 1923

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story of the 1924 game: TULANE. EASILY WINS GAME 26-7 Greenies Run Rough Shod Over Tennessee Eleven

    1924 · The Birmingham age-herald, Nov 16, 1924

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

Nov 11, 19672Tennessee 35, Tulane 14at Tennessee
Nov 9, 1963Tennessee 26, Tulane 0at Tulane
Nov 10, 1962Tennessee 28, Tulane 16at Tennessee
Nov 15, 1924Tulane 26, Tennessee 7at Tulane
Nov 3, 1923Tennessee 13, Tulane 2at Tennessee

Every game is listed as played on the field.