Colgate vs. Syracuse

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

1. Colgate’s biggest win1930: Colgate 36, Syracuse 7by 29 points
2. Syracuse’s biggest win1959: Syracuse 71, Colgate 0by 71 points
3. Upset1923: Colgate 16, Syracuse 7Colgate had a 25% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1950: Colgate 19, Syracuse 14Colgate had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1946: Colgate 25, Syracuse 7Colgate had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Colgate’s side (Bankart 1–⁠1–⁠1 against O’Neill). 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).

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  1905 · New-York tribune, Oct 22, 1905

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  1906 · New-York tribune, Oct 21, 1906

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  1908 · New-York tribune, New York, Nov 8, 1908

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  1909 · The Bennington evening banner, Bennington, Vt., Nov 15, 1909

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  1910 · New-York tribune, Nov 13, 1910

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. Bucknell55 meetings, Colgate 42–⁠13
• Colgate vs. Brown52 meetings, Colgate 25–⁠20–⁠7
• Syracuse vs. Pittsburgh82 meetings, Syracuse 33–⁠46–⁠3
• Syracuse vs. Penn State71 meetings, Syracuse 23–⁠43–⁠5
• Syracuse vs. West Virginia61 meetings, Syracuse 34–⁠27
• Syracuse vs. Boston College59 meetings, Syracuse 34–⁠25