Texas vs. Vanderbilt

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

1. Texas’s biggest win1923: Texas 16, Vanderbilt 0by 16 points
2. Vanderbilt’s biggest win1906: Vanderbilt 45, Texas 0by 45 points
3. Upset1921: Vanderbilt 20, Texas 0Vanderbilt had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Ranked showdown2025: Texas 34, Vanderbilt 31No. 9 Vanderbilt at No. 20 Texas
5. Ranked showdown2024: Texas 27, Vanderbilt 24No. 5 Texas at No. 25 Vanderbilt

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Texas’s side (Stewart 1–⁠2 against McGugin). 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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  1903 · The Birmingham age-herald, Nov 7, 1903

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  1905 · The semi-weekly messenger, Wilmington, N.C., Oct 31, 1905

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  1906 · Bryan morning eagle, Bryan, Tex., Oct 30, 1906

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  1921 · Amarillo daily news. (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, Texas, Oct 23, 1921

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  1922 · Evening public ledger, Philadelphia [Pa.], Oct 23, 1922

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.

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Texas vs. Oklahoma119 meetings, Texas 62–⁠52–⁠5
• Texas vs. Texas A&M113 meetings, Texas 71–⁠37–⁠5
• Texas vs. Baylor112 meetings, Texas 79–⁠28–⁠5
• Texas vs. Rice97 meetings, Texas 75–⁠21–⁠1
• Vanderbilt vs. Tennessee116 meetings, Vanderbilt 31–⁠81–⁠4
• Vanderbilt vs. Ole Miss96 meetings, Vanderbilt 37–⁠57–⁠2
• Vanderbilt vs. Kentucky95 meetings, Vanderbilt 42–⁠49–⁠4
• Vanderbilt vs. Alabama87 meetings, Vanderbilt 19–⁠64–⁠4