Army vs. Virginia
Army and Virginia have 8 meetings on file, the first in 1954; Army leads the series 5–3 in the games on file. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Army 5–3. Share
- Army wins
- 5
- Virginia wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1954
- Longest streak
- 3 Army
- Current streak
- 1 Virginia
- Last 10 meetings
- Army 5–3
- Most recent
- 1978
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 11 points; 5 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Army
- 4–1 Army’s record at home
- At Virginia
- 2–1 Virginia’s record at home
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Army’s biggest win1958: Army 35, Virginia 6by 29 points
- Virginia’s biggest win1964: Virginia 35, Army 14by 21 points
- Upset1978: Virginia 21, Army 17Virginia had a 20% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
Both programs through the years
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.
From the newspapers

1954 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 31, 1954

1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 1, 1957
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
| Sep 23, 1978 | Virginia 21, Army 17 | at Army | ||
| Oct 23, 1971 | Army 14, Virginia 9 | at Army | ||
| Oct 17, 1970 | Virginia 21, Army 20 | at Virginia | ||
| Sep 23, 1967 | Army 26, Virginia 7 | at Army | ||
| Oct 17, 1964 | Virginia 35, Army 14 | at Virginia | ||
| Oct 18, 1958 | 1Army 35, Virginia 6 | at Army | ||
| Oct 26, 1957 | 9Army 20, Virginia 12 | at Virginia | ||
| Oct 30, 1954 | 5Army 21, Virginia 20 | at Army |
Every game is listed as played on the field.