Columbia vs. Lafayette

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

1. Columbia’s biggest win1946: Columbia 46, Lafayette 0by 46 points
2. Lafayette’s biggest win2007: Lafayette 29, Columbia 0by 29 points
3. Upset1965: Lafayette 14, Columbia 10Lafayette had a 8% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1968: Lafayette 36, Columbia 14Lafayette had a 12% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1974: Lafayette 15, Columbia 0Lafayette had a 15% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

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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  1945 · Detroit evening times, Sep 30, 1945

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  1946 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 17, 1946

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.

• Columbia vs. Cornell91 meetings, Columbia 36–⁠52–⁠3
• Columbia vs. Pennsylvania84 meetings, Columbia 22–⁠61–⁠1
• Columbia vs. Yale81 meetings, Columbia 17–⁠62–⁠2
• Columbia vs. Princeton74 meetings, Columbia 12–⁠61–⁠1
• Lafayette vs. Lehigh88 meetings, Lafayette 46–⁠38–⁠4
• Lafayette vs. Pennsylvania80 meetings, Lafayette 21–⁠55–⁠4
• Lafayette vs. Rutgers52 meetings, Lafayette 16–⁠35–⁠1
• Lafayette vs. Colgate49 meetings, Lafayette 11–⁠35–⁠3