Tennessee vs. Tulsa
Tennessee and Tulsa have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1942; Tennessee leads the series 5–0 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Tennessee 5–0, and Tennessee has won the last 5. Share
- Tennessee wins
- 5
- Tulsa wins
- 0
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1942
- Longest streak
- 5 Tennessee
- Current streak
- 5 Tennessee
- Last 10 meetings
- Tennessee 5–0
- Most recent
- 1974
The series at a glance
- Both ranked
- 1 meeting: Tennessee 1, Tulsa 0; 1 both in the top 10
- Average margin
- 23.2 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Tennessee
- 3–0 Tennessee’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 2–0 Tennessee first
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Tennessee’s biggest win1961: Tennessee 52, Tulsa 6by 46 points
- Ranked showdown1942: Tennessee 14, Tulsa 7No. 6 Tulsa at No. 10 Tennessee
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
Named most valuable
| Dewey Warren Tennessee | 1965 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1942 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Jan 2, 1943
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
| Oct 5, 1974 | Tennessee 17, Tulsa 10 | at Tennessee | ||
| Oct 30, 1971 | 16Tennessee 38, Tulsa 3 | at Tennessee | ||
| Dec 18, 1965 | 7Tennessee 27, Tulsa 6 | Neutral site | Bluebonnet Bowl | |
| Oct 14, 1961 | Tennessee 52, Tulsa 6 | at Tennessee | ||
| Jan 1, 1943 | 10Tennessee 14, 6Tulsa 7 | Neutral site | Sugar Bowl |
Every game is listed as played on the field.