Boston College vs. Syracuse

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

1. Boston College’s biggest win1972: Boston College 37, Syracuse 0by 37 points
2. Syracuse’s biggest win1966: Syracuse 30, Boston College 0by 30 points
3. Upset1999: Boston College 24, Syracuse 23Boston College had a 20% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2004: Syracuse 43, Boston College 17Syracuse had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1993: Boston College 33, Syracuse 29Boston College had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown1992: Syracuse 27, Boston College 10No. 10 Syracuse at No. 17 Boston College
7. Ranked showdown1994: Boston College 31, Syracuse 0No. 14 Syracuse at No. 25 Boston College
8. Ranked showdown2001: Syracuse 39, Boston College 28No. 25 Boston College at No. 22 Syracuse

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Boston College’s side (Miller 1–⁠5 against Schwartzwalder). 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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1924 · New Britain herald, Oct 22, 1924

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  1944 · The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., Oct 29, 1944

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  1963 · The Nome nugget, Sep 23, 1963

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.

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.

• 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
• Boston College vs. Temple39 meetings, Boston College 30–⁠7–⁠2
• Syracuse vs. Pittsburgh82 meetings, Syracuse 33–⁠46–⁠3
• Syracuse vs. Penn State71 meetings, Syracuse 23–⁠43–⁠5
• Syracuse vs. West Virginia61 meetings, Syracuse 34–⁠27
• Syracuse vs. Colgate61 meetings, Syracuse 32–⁠25–⁠4