Tulsa vs. West Texas

Tulsa and West Texas first met in 1945 and have played 15 times; Tulsa leads the series 13–⁠1–⁠1. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Tulsa 8–⁠1, and Tulsa has won the last 7.

Tulsa wins
13
West Texas wins
1
Ties
1
First meeting
1945
Longest streak
7 Tulsa
Current streak
7 Tulsa
Last 10 meetings
Tulsa 8–⁠1
Most recent
1985

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s2–⁠0
1970s5–⁠1–⁠1
1980s6–⁠0
Average margin
20.3 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Tulsa
9–⁠0–⁠1 Tulsa’s record at home
At West Texas
1–⁠4 West Texas’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. Tulsa’s biggest win1973: Tulsa 48, West Texas 3by 45 points
  2. West Texas’s biggest win1977: West Texas 57, Tulsa 21by 36 points

Coach against coach

YearsTulsaSeriesWest Texas
1977–⁠1980John Cooper2–⁠1Bill Yung

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Tulsa’s side (Cooper 2–⁠1 against Yung). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Tulsa and West Texas, 1945 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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 Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1947 game: E e :; >3 S a R8 A6 912 FOOTBALL ! SCORES

    1947 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Sep 22, 1947

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 26, 1985Tulsa 44, West Texas 17at Tulsa
Oct 5, 1984Tulsa 35, West Texas 7at West Texas
Nov 12, 1983Tulsa 31, West Texas 16at Tulsa
Nov 6, 1982Tulsa 59, West Texas 21at Tulsa
Nov 14, 1981Tulsa 24, West Texas 10at West Texas
Oct 25, 1980Tulsa 44, West Texas 24at Tulsa
Nov 4, 1978Tulsa 44, West Texas 23at Tulsa
Nov 19, 1977West Texas 57, Tulsa 21at West Texas
Nov 27, 1976Tulsa 17, West Texas 17at Tulsa
Sep 20, 1975Tulsa 23, West Texas 14at West Texas
Oct 19, 1974Tulsa 17, West Texas 14at Tulsa
Sep 15, 1973Tulsa 48, West Texas 3at Tulsa
Oct 2, 1971Tulsa 17, West Texas 13at West Texas
Sep 20, 1947Tulsa 26, West Texas 13at Tulsa
Sep 29, 1945Tulsa 32, West Texas 0at Tulsa

Every game is listed as played on the field.