Colgate vs. Navy

Colgate and Navy have 7 meetings on file, the first in 1923; Navy leads the series 7–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Navy 7–⁠0, and Navy has won the last 7.

Colgate wins
0
Navy wins
7
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1923
Longest streak
7 Navy
Current streak
7 Navy
Last 10 meetings
Navy 7–⁠0
Most recent
2015

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s0–⁠2
1970s0–⁠1
1990s0–⁠3
2010s0–⁠1
Average margin
20.3 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Navy
7–⁠0 Navy’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Navy’s biggest win2015: Navy 48, Colgate 10by 38 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Colgate and Navy, 1923 on13001500170019401960198020002020

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 1923 game: NAVY IS VICTOR OVER COLGATE 90 Sustained Power Of Attack Gives The MiddieS Victory

    1923 · The Birmingham age-herald, Nov 4, 1923

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

Sep 5, 2015Navy 48, Colgate 10at Navy
Oct 17, 1998Navy 42, Colgate 35at Navy
Nov 15, 1997Navy 52, Colgate 24at Navy
Oct 16, 1993Navy 31, Colgate 3at Navy
Sep 12, 1970Navy 48, Colgate 22at Navy
Oct 23, 1926Navy 13, Colgate 7at Navy
Nov 3, 1923Navy 9, Colgate 0at Navy

Every game is listed as played on the field.