Boston College vs. Penn State

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in. Overtime games from the games’ Wikipedia articles.

1. Boston College’s biggest win2004: Boston College 21, Penn State 7by 14 points
2. Penn State’s biggest win1982: Penn State 52, Boston College 17by 35 points
3. Upset1992: Boston College 35, Penn State 32Boston College had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Ranked showdown1992: Boston College 35, Penn State 32No. 20 Boston College at No. 9 Penn State

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Boston College’s side (Yukica 0–⁠4 against Paterno). 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.

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

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  1949 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 9, 1949

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.

• 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. Army39 meetings, Boston College 26–⁠13
• Penn State vs. Pittsburgh99 meetings, Penn State 52–⁠43–⁠4
• Penn State vs. Syracuse71 meetings, Penn State 43–⁠23–⁠5
• Penn State vs. West Virginia61 meetings, Penn State 50–⁠9–⁠2
• Penn State vs. Maryland48 meetings, Penn State 44–⁠3–⁠1