Clemson vs. Virginia

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

1. Clemson’s biggest win1984: Clemson 55, Virginia 0by 55 points
2. Virginia’s biggest win2004: Virginia 30, Clemson 10by 20 points
3. Upset1996: Clemson 24, Virginia 16Clemson had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2001: Virginia 26, Clemson 24Virginia had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1999: Clemson 33, Virginia 14Clemson had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown1990: Virginia 20, Clemson 7No. 9 Clemson at No. 14 Virginia
7. Ranked showdown2019: Clemson 62, Virginia 17No. 22 Virginia at No. 3 Clemson
8. Ranked showdown1992: Clemson 29, Virginia 28No. 25 Clemson at No. 10 Virginia

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Clemson’s side (Howard 3–⁠0 against Voris). 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). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

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  1955 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 29, 1955

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  1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 13, 1957

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  1959 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 27, 1959

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  1963 · The Nome nugget, Oct 28, 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.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Clemson vs. South Carolina117 meetings, Clemson 70–⁠43–⁠4
• Clemson vs. NC State91 meetings, Clemson 60–⁠30–⁠1
• Clemson vs. Wake Forest90 meetings, Clemson 72–⁠17–⁠1
• Clemson vs. Georgia Tech88 meetings, Clemson 34–⁠52–⁠2
• Virginia vs. North Carolina120 meetings, Virginia 51–⁠65–⁠4
• Virginia vs. Virginia Tech101 meetings, Virginia 34–⁠62–⁠5
• Virginia vs. Maryland80 meetings, Virginia 32–⁠46–⁠2
• Virginia vs. VMI78 meetings, Virginia 53–⁠23–⁠2