American Athletic · Tre Lamb, year 2 (7-8) · Chapman Stadium · 30,000 · 22,404 avg in 2026
LastW 42–0 vs East Texas A&M · Sat Sep 19 · Dexter Williams II 164 pass yds, 3 TD, 9 rush yds
Nextat Arkansas · Sat Sep 26 · 8 pm ET · Razorback Stadium · Arkansas by 7 · series 16-51-2, lost the last 19 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 22 · through week 3
| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 5 | #107 | #262 | +13✓ | Oklahoma State | W 24–10 143 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2 | Sep 12 | #113 | #160 | -12.5✗ | @Sam Houston | W 23–17 139 | 2-0 | 0-0 |
| 3 | Sep 20 | #125 | #233 | -41.5✓ | East Texas A&M | W 42–0 141 | 3-0 | 0-0 |
| 4 | Sep 27 | #104 | #134 | +7 | @Arkansas | |||
| 5 | Oct 2 | #104 | #111 | North Texas | ||||
| 6 | Oct 10 | @Navy | ||||||
| 7 | Oct 17 | @Rice | ||||||
| 8 | Oct 24 | Army | ||||||
| 10 | Nov 7 | @Tulane | ||||||
| 11 | Nov 14 | Florida Atlantic | ||||||
| 12 | Nov 21 | Charlotte | ||||||
| 13 | Nov 28 | @UTSA |
| Date | Opp | Result | Yds | TO | TOP | EPA/play | Success% | Explosive% | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20 | East Texas A&M | W 42–0 | 450 | 1 | 29:42 | +0.319 | 51.4% | 120.4% | Season-high EPA/play |
| Sep 12 | @Sam Houston | W 23–17 | 367 | 0 | 30:18 | +0.009 | 32.4% | 152.4% | Season-low EPA/play |
| Sep 5 | Oklahoma State | W 24–10 | 361 | 1 | 28:55 | +0.186 | 41.4% | 108.5% | |
| Season average (3 games) | 393 | 0.7 | +0.171 | 41.7% | 127.1% | ||||
Tulsa is the tiny Oklahoma private school that out-scored everybody for a decade — and is trying, under a first-year coach, to remember how the offense used to feel like a track meet.
Tulsa fans are tired of being the program everyone forgets is in the FBS — the 4,000-student private school nobody schedules out of respect. They'll remind you it has more bowl history than schools…
The season in chapters
What fans said
Real posts from the day of the game, chosen by community score · usernames not shown
What it is like to watch them2025 · 4-8 · last season
✓ measured from 12 games · ranks are among American Athletic teams the same season
Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025
Warming. 5-5 over the last 10, and won the last three.
What we tell ourselves and what we keep in mind is what happened last year. We won a few games and got big heads, then we got comfortable and lost a bunch of games in a row
Next Sep 27
vs Arkansas · away
~ our read on style
Market outlook
Sportsbook consensus · best odds across multiple books · 2026-09-22
the open questionwhere does it go from here?
Tre Lamb inherits a 4-8 losing record at Tulsa, a program defined by its historic Oklahoma-G5 identity but now navigating a fanbase in transition.
our readdeveloping
Tre Lamb inherits Tulsa's third head coach in five seasons and a 4-8 roster with 92% QB production returning — historic-Oklahoma-G5-football outside Norman + Stillwater demands stability.
our readbackground
Tulsa jumped 24 spots in SP+ — the gap between the ranking and 4-8 record is the story Tre Lamb has to answer in American Athletic this year.
our readbackground
Tulsa: coordinator change reshaping a unit.
our readbackground
Tulsa, the Oklahoma private university with Todd Graham's 2010 11-3 season, now sits at 4-8, highlighting a gap between its historic G5 identity and current struggles.
our readdeveloping
Tulsa aac championship shortened — implied probability moved from 5.8% to 10.0% (+4.2pp) between Sep 13 and Sep 14, 2026 (tier C).
our readbackground
Dominic Richardson gets LESS work in the fourth quarter with a lead than his overall workload would predict -- not the trusted closer raw carries might suggest.
our readbackground
Zion Booker: a garbage time merchant signal screened this season.
our readbackground
Outcome band · Tulsa · 2026
Floor, base and ceiling come from the season-path projection, which plays out conference title games and the CFP — so a ceiling can run past 12 games.
The optimistic read: momentum, and the 'this is real' takes.
This event was in 54 of 364 board posts (15%) over the last 60 days — a fanbase consumed by it. Fan text shown verbatim, attributed to the community not the individual poster.
The boards ≠ the fanbase: a vocal, self-selected slice.
Tre Lamb took over as Tulsa's head coach, replacing Kevin Wilson. It is the program's third head coach in five seasons. It's not the hire that's the story anymore — it's everything it set in motion. The room has bought in, but early believers have been wrong before.
The 'this hire changes everything' takes -- new-era believers making the case early.
The 'show me the body of work' counter -- resume gaps, scheme fits, and 'not that guy' reads.
Nothing in our corpus yet — this door stays open for when there is.
Only 11 of 364 board posts mention it — below our floor to call a community stance. Shown as texture, not a verdict.
The boards ≠ the fanbase: a vocal, self-selected slice.
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Tulsa is the Oklahoma private university whose Todd Graham 2010 11-3 + 2012 Liberty Bowl + Skelly Field at H.A. Chapman Stadium define what historic-Oklahoma-G5-football looks like outside Norman + Stillwater.
The program ledger
since 2025OSU releases depth chart for Tulsa game
OSU's depth chart is out and the Cowboy offense gets its first real test — Tulsa's WR depth is thin enough that Lamb's group can't afford a slow start on the other side of the ball.
Tulsa to honor coach's late wife
Tre Lamb's first season carries weight beyond the depth chart — Tulsa pauses a rebuild to honor the woman behind the coach.
TU's first-ever win in Stillwater
First win ever in Stillwater — Tre Lamb's program just crossed a line that 100+ years of Tulsa football couldn't, and the rising SP+ isn't a coincidence anymore.
Tulsa has tight 3-way QB battle
Three QBs fighting for one job in fall camp — Lamb's offense can't get its identity locked in until that depth chart clears, and a WR room already under pressure needs to know who's throwing to them.
Tulsa loses 2027 commit
A 2027 decommit this early stings differently when your class is already sitting 92nd — Lamb's WR room can't afford to lose ground it hasn't fully built yet.
Romel Koon commits to Tulsa
A DB commit in a rebuild year matters — but the WR room is still where Lamb's 109th-ranked class has the most obvious pressure to add.
Top 3 commits
Recruiting Footprint · 2026
OK leads the 2026 class with 6 commits. National footprint reaching 9 states.
Where they recruit · 2023-2026
88 signees across 13 states, 2023-2026. TX leads the pull.
Miles from home · 2026 roster
The median Tulsa player grew up 247 miles from campus.
Half this roster came from closer than that; half came from farther.
Straight-line distance from each player's listed hometown to Chapman Stadium. Hometowns are placed at city-centroid precision, not street address — fine at this scale, but a player's true door-to-door number can differ by a few miles. 101 of 111 listed players have a geocoded hometown. Source: CFBD roster hometowns.
Top community posts · last 12 months · r/cfb
Fan confidence in a typical range for this program right now
87th percentile among FBS programs
4 of 68 AP voters have them ranked, AP ballot, week 3 (2026) — from #20, Ralph Russo (The Athletic), to #23, Dylan Sinn (The Journal Gazette). 64 voters left them off the ballot entirely.
Individual AP Top 25 ballots, AP ballot, week 3, 2026 — 68 voters tracked.
19% of tipped/broken-up passes have turned into picks — about the ~19% league average.
3 interceptions of 16 disrupted passes (13 deflected, 3 intercepted), 2026 only.
15 penalties committed, 20 drawn on opponents — netting a 33-yard field-position edge.
152 penalty yards committed vs. 185 drawn on opponents, 2026 season total.
Outcome band · Tulsa · 2026
Recruiting Footprint · 2026