Colgate vs. Rutgers

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

1. Colgate’s biggest win1973: Colgate 42, Rutgers 0by 42 points
2. Rutgers’s biggest win1993: Rutgers 68, Colgate 6by 62 points
3. Upset1978: Colgate 14, Rutgers 9Colgate had a 11% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1973: Colgate 42, Rutgers 0Colgate had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1957: Rutgers 48, Colgate 6Rutgers had a 25% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Colgate’s side (Kerr 3–⁠0 against Tasker). 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.

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  1933 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 15, 1933

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  1934 · Evening star, Nov 25, 1934

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  1935 · Evening star, Nov 24, 1935

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  1948 · Roanoke Rapids daily herald, Roanoke Rapids, N.C., Oct 4, 1948

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  1953 · Evening star, Nov 1, 1953

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.

• Colgate vs. Cornell90 meetings, Colgate 39–⁠48–⁠3
• Colgate vs. Holy Cross67 meetings, Colgate 32–⁠30–⁠5
• Colgate vs. Syracuse61 meetings, Colgate 25–⁠32–⁠4
• Colgate vs. Bucknell55 meetings, Colgate 42–⁠13
• Rutgers vs. Princeton71 meetings, Rutgers 17–⁠53–⁠1
• Rutgers vs. Lafayette52 meetings, Rutgers 35–⁠16–⁠1
• Rutgers vs. Lehigh51 meetings, Rutgers 24–⁠27
• Rutgers vs. Columbia49 meetings, Rutgers 23–⁠21–⁠5