Texas vs. Washington State

Texas and Washington State have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1954; Texas leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Texas 2–⁠1.

Texas wins
2
Washington State wins
1
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1954
Longest streak
2 Texas
Current streak
1 Washington State
Last 10 meetings
Texas 2–⁠1
Most recent
2003

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s1–⁠0
1960s1–⁠0
2000s0–⁠1
Both ranked
1 meeting: Texas 0, Washington State 1
Average margin
22.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Texas
2–⁠0 Texas’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠1 Texas first

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 Texas and Washington State, 1954 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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

Sammy Moore Washington State2003
Kyle Basler Washington State2003

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1954 game: Texas Drubs Cougars, 4O-74, But Losers Get Longest Score

    1954 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 3, 1954

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

Dec 30, 200315Washington State 28, 6Texas 20Qualcomm StadiumHoliday Bowl
Oct 7, 1961Texas 41, Washington State 8at Texas
Oct 2, 195412Texas 40, Washington State 14at Texas

Every game is listed as played on the field.