Alabama vs. Mercer

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

1. Alabama’s biggest win2017: Alabama 56, Mercer 0by 56 points

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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  1939 · Henderson daily dispatch, Henderson, N.C., Oct 20, 1939

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  1940 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 7, 1940

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.

• 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
• Mercer vs. Chattanooga24 meetings, Mercer 12–⁠11–⁠1
• Mercer vs. Furman23 meetings, Mercer 8–⁠13–⁠2
• Mercer vs. Samford21 meetings, Mercer 11–⁠9–⁠1
• Mercer vs. Georgia21 meetings, Mercer 0–⁠21