Bucknell vs. Temple

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

1. Bucknell’s biggest win1950: Bucknell 35, Temple 0by 35 points
2. Temple’s biggest win1945: Temple 64, Bucknell 0by 64 points
3. Upset1950: Bucknell 35, Temple 0Bucknell had a 17% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1952: Bucknell 19, Temple 12Bucknell had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1935: Bucknell 7, Temple 6Bucknell had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Bucknell’s side (Snavely 0–⁠2–⁠1 against Miller). 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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  1931 · The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], Oct 17, 1931

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  1948 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 30, 1948

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  1949 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 15, 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.

• Bucknell vs. Colgate55 meetings, Bucknell 13–⁠42
• Bucknell vs. Cornell49 meetings, Bucknell 10–⁠39
• Bucknell vs. Lafayette43 meetings, Bucknell 12–⁠28–⁠3
• Bucknell vs. Lehigh36 meetings, Bucknell 14–⁠20–⁠2
• Temple vs. Penn State46 meetings, Temple 4–⁠41–⁠1
• Temple vs. Rutgers39 meetings, Temple 16–⁠23
• Temple vs. Boston College39 meetings, Temple 7–⁠30–⁠2
• Temple vs. Syracuse37 meetings, Temple 10–⁠26–⁠1