Auburn vs. Boston College

Auburn and Boston College have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1939; Boston College leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Boston College 2–⁠1.

Auburn wins
1
Boston College wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1939
Longest streak
2 Boston College
Current streak
1 Auburn
Last 10 meetings
Boston College 2–⁠1
Most recent
1982

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠1
1940s0–⁠1
1980s1–⁠0
Average margin
13 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Boston College
2–⁠0 Boston College’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0 Auburn first

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 Auburn and Boston College, 1939 on130015001700194019501960197019801990200020102020

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

Randy Campbell Auburn1982

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

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1940 game: Boston College. Rips Big Auburn Apart For 9Th in Row O'Rourke Is Speurheod Of EoeIes' Offensive In 33-7 Victory

    1940 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 24, 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

Dec 18, 198218Auburn 33, Boston College 26Neutral siteTangerine Bowl
Nov 23, 19404Boston College 33, Auburn 7at Boston College
Nov 4, 1939Boston College 13, Auburn 7at Boston College

Every game is listed as played on the field.