Paint Bucket Bowl
SportFootball
First meetingOctober 27, 1914
First District 18, West Tennessee 6
Latest meetingSeptember 9, 2023
Memphis 37, Arkansas State 3
Next meetingSeptember 5, 2026
TrophyNone
Statistics
Meetings total62
All-time seriesMemphis leads, 33–23–5
Largest victoryWest Tennessee, 68–0 (1922)
Longest win streakMemphis, 10 (1991–2004)
Current win streakMemphis, 4 (2013–present)
Locations of Arkansas State and Memphis

The Paint Bucket Bowl is the name given to the Arkansas State–Memphis football rivalry.[1] It is a college football rivalry between the Arkansas State Red Wolves and the Memphis Tigers.

History

The name of the rivalry was created when officials from the two schools decided to create a trophy for the winner of the game out of some buckets of paint and some paint brushes. The losing school also designed a particular area on its campus that the winner could smear with paint, in an attempt to eliminate the defacing of each campus and the “kidnapping” of opposing football players during game week. The tradition evolved into the winning school being given a trophy from the other—a paint bucket decorated in the colors of the two schools and inscribed with the game score.[2][3] The two teams have met 62 times on the football field, with Memphis currently holding a 33–23–5 edge in the all-time series. The last meeting between the schools was in 2023. On May 20, 2020, it was announced that a further four-year extension of the series will begin in 2026.[4]

Game results

Arkansas State victoriesMemphis victoriesTie games

See also

References

  1. Lewis, Nicolas (August 9, 2017). "The Three Rivalry Trophy Series Arkansas State Needs to Start Playing".
  2. "Football Traditions". astateredwolves.com. Retrieved 2013-01-28.
  3. "TIGER KICKOFF: 10 things you didn't know about Arkansas State". Columbia Missourian. September 27, 2013. Retrieved 2014-08-02.
  4. Kelley, Kevin (20 May 2020). "Arkansas State AD announces four-year extension of Memphis series". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  5. "Forfeits and Vacated Games". College Football at Sports-Reference.com.
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