Buffalo vs. Columbia

Buffalo and Columbia have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1900; the series is tied 2–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s even at 2–⁠2.

Buffalo wins
2
Columbia wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1900
Longest streak
1 Columbia
Current streak
1 Buffalo
Last 10 meetings
even at 2–⁠2
Most recent
1958

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s1–⁠2
1950s1–⁠0
Average margin
11.8 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Buffalo
2–⁠1 Buffalo’s record at home
At Columbia
1–⁠0 Columbia’s record at home
Shutouts
3

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 Buffalo and Columbia, 1900 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

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 New-York tribune's story of the 1901 game: FOOTBALL. COLUMBIA BEATEN BY BUFFALO. DISASTER FOR THE Rrt-E

    1901 · New-York tribune, Sep 29, 1901

  • The The Salt Lake herald's story of the 1902 game: FOOTBALL SCORES. How the Big Colleges Came Out in Yesterdays Games.

    1902 · The Salt Lake herald, Salt Lake City [Utah], Oct 12, 1902

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

Oct 25, 1958Buffalo 34, Columbia 14at Buffalo
Oct 11, 1902Columbia 5, Buffalo 0at Columbia
Sep 28, 1901Buffalo 5, Columbia 0at Buffalo
Nov 10, 1900Columbia 17, Buffalo 0at Buffalo

Every game is listed as played on the field.