Army vs. Boston College

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

1. Army’s biggest win1995: Army 49, Boston College 7by 42 points
2. Boston College’s biggest win2000: Boston College 55, Army 17by 38 points
3. Upset1995: Army 49, Boston College 7Army had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1989: Boston College 24, Army 17Boston College had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2023: Boston College 27, Army 24Boston College had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

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

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1917 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 25, 1917

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  1919 · New-York tribune, New York, Oct 26, 1919

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.

• Army vs. Navy125 meetings, Army 55–⁠63–⁠7
• Army vs. Air Force60 meetings, Army 21–⁠38–⁠1
• Army vs. Notre Dame52 meetings, Army 8–⁠40–⁠4
• Army vs. Yale46 meetings, Army 16–⁠22–⁠8
• Boston College vs. Syracuse59 meetings, Boston College 25–⁠34
• Boston College vs. Holy Cross55 meetings, Boston College 36–⁠19
• Boston College vs. Villanova42 meetings, Boston College 27–⁠14–⁠1
• Boston College vs. Temple39 meetings, Boston College 30–⁠7–⁠2