Alabama vs. Duke

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

1. Alabama’s biggest win2010: Alabama 62, Duke 13by 49 points
2. Duke’s biggest win1944: Duke 29, Alabama 26by 3 points
3. Ranked showdown1944: Duke 29, Alabama 26No. 16 Alabama at No. 11 Duke

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.

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  1944 · The Daily Alaska empire, Jan 2, 1945

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 is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.

• Alabama vs. Tennessee108 meetings, Alabama 61–⁠40–⁠7
• Alabama vs. Mississippi State107 meetings, Alabama 87–⁠17–⁠3
• Alabama vs. LSU89 meetings, Alabama 58–⁠26–⁠5
• Alabama vs. Vanderbilt87 meetings, Alabama 64–⁠19–⁠4
• Duke vs. North Carolina106 meetings, Duke 38–⁠64–⁠4
• Duke vs. Wake Forest102 meetings, Duke 60–⁠40–⁠2
• Duke vs. Georgia Tech93 meetings, Duke 35–⁠57–⁠1
• Duke vs. NC State86 meetings, Duke 44–⁠37–⁠5