Dayton vs. Tennessee
Dayton and Tennessee have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1941; Tennessee leads the series 4–0 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Tennessee 4–0, and Tennessee has won the last 4. Share
- Dayton wins
- 0
- Tennessee wins
- 4
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1941
- Longest streak
- 4 Tennessee
- Current streak
- 4 Tennessee
- Last 10 meetings
- Tennessee 4–0
- Most recent
- 1955
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 26.8 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Tennessee
- 4–0 Tennessee’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 1
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Both programs through the years
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
1942 · The Daily Alaska empire, Oct 12, 1942
1954 · Evening star, Oct 24, 1954
1955 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 23, 1955
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
| Oct 22, 1955 | Tennessee 53, Dayton 7 | at Tennessee | ||
| Oct 23, 1954 | Tennessee 14, Dayton 7 | at Tennessee | ||
| Oct 10, 1942 | Tennessee 34, Dayton 6 | at Tennessee | ||
| Oct 11, 1941 | Tennessee 26, Dayton 0 | at Tennessee |
Every game is listed as played on the field.