Baylor vs. Pittsburgh

Baylor and Pittsburgh have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1961; the series is tied 2–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s even at 2–⁠2.

Baylor wins
2
Pittsburgh wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1961
Longest streak
2 Pittsburgh
Current streak
1 Baylor
Last 10 meetings
even at 2–⁠2
Most recent
1973

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1960s1–⁠1
1970s1–⁠1
Average margin
6 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Baylor
0–⁠2 Baylor’s record at home
At Pittsburgh
0–⁠2 Pittsburgh’s record at home

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 Baylor and Pittsburgh, 1961 on130015001700197019801990200020102020

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

  • The Evening star's story of the 1961 game: DUKE AZ VIRGINIA - o Baylor Whips Pitt, 1913, on Arm Of Stanley

    1961 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 1, 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

Sep 22, 1973Baylor 20, Pittsburgh 14at Pittsburgh
Sep 26, 1970Pittsburgh 15, Baylor 10at Baylor
Sep 29, 1962Pittsburgh 24, Baylor 14at Baylor
Sep 30, 1961Baylor 16, Pittsburgh 13at Pittsburgh

Every game is listed as played on the field.