Cincinnati vs. West Virginia

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

1. Cincinnati’s biggest win2009: Cincinnati 24, West Virginia 21by 3 points
2. West Virginia’s biggest win1989: West Virginia 69, Cincinnati 3by 66 points
3. Upset2008: Cincinnati 26, West Virginia 23Cincinnati had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2002: West Virginia 35, Cincinnati 32West Virginia had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Ranked showdown2007: West Virginia 28, Cincinnati 23No. 5 West Virginia at No. 21 Cincinnati

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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  1922 · Bisbee daily review, Arizona, Nov 7, 1922

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  1936 · Evening star, Sep 27, 1936

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.

• Cincinnati vs. Miami (OH)71 meetings, Cincinnati 36–⁠34–⁠1
• Cincinnati vs. Louisville46 meetings, Cincinnati 22–⁠23–⁠1
• Cincinnati vs. Memphis37 meetings, Cincinnati 14–⁠23
• Cincinnati vs. Tulsa37 meetings, Cincinnati 18–⁠17–⁠2
• West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh101 meetings, West Virginia 37–⁠61–⁠3
• West Virginia vs. Penn State61 meetings, West Virginia 9–⁠50–⁠2
• West Virginia vs. Syracuse61 meetings, West Virginia 27–⁠34
• West Virginia vs. Virginia Tech54 meetings, West Virginia 30–⁠23–⁠1