Army vs. West Virginia

Army and West Virginia have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1941; the series is tied 2–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s even at 2–⁠2, and West Virginia has won the last 2.

Army wins
2
West Virginia wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1941
Longest streak
2 Army
Current streak
2 West Virginia
Last 10 meetings
even at 2–⁠2
Most recent
2020

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s2–⁠0
1960s0–⁠1
2020s0–⁠1
Average margin
6.8 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Army
2–⁠1 Army’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠1 Army first
Shutouts
1

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Army and West Virginia, 1941 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

T.J. Simmons West Virginia2020

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1941 game: Army

    1941 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 22, 1941

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1946 game: Big Game This Week; Army, Navy

    1946 · The Daily Alaska empire, Nov 4, 1946

  • The Evening star's story of the 1961 game: GW'sBigA Aim AIwaystoBeat West Virginia

    1961 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 2, 1961

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

Dec 31, 2020West Virginia 24, Army 21Simmons Bank Liberty StadiumLiberty Bowl
Oct 28, 1961West Virginia 7, Army 3at Army
Nov 2, 19461Army 19, West Virginia 0at Army
Nov 22, 1941Army 7, West Virginia 6at Army

Every game is listed as played on the field.