Centre vs. Virginia Tech

Centre and Virginia Tech first met in 1920 and have played 5 times; Centre leads the series 3–⁠2. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Centre 3–⁠2, and Virginia Tech has won the last 2.

Centre wins
3
Virginia Tech wins
2
Ties
0
First meeting
1920
Longest streak
3 Centre
Current streak
2 Virginia Tech
Last 10 meetings
Centre 3–⁠2
Most recent
1940

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s3–⁠0
1930s0–⁠1
1940s0–⁠1
Average margin
15.6 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Centre
2–⁠1 Centre’s record at home
At Virginia Tech
1–⁠1 Virginia Tech’s record at home
Shutouts
3

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Centre’s biggest win1920: Centre 28, Virginia Tech 0by 28 points
  2. Virginia Tech’s biggest win1939: Virginia Tech 28, Centre 0by 28 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Centre and Virginia Tech, 1920 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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 The Birmingham age-herald's story of the 1922 game: CENTRE IS FORCED TO LIMIT TO WIN FROM U.P.I. ELEVEN Virginia Tech Scores on Col onelS and KentuCklans Forced to Uncover

    1922 · The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, Oct 15, 1922

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

Nov 16, 1940Virginia Tech 10, Centre 6at Centre
Oct 27, 1939Virginia Tech 28, Centre 0at Virginia Tech
Oct 14, 1922Centre 10, Virginia Tech 6at Virginia Tech
Oct 8, 1921Centre 14, Virginia Tech 0at Centre
Nov 20, 1920Centre 28, Virginia Tech 0at Centre

Every game is listed as played on the field.