Delaware vs. Rutgers
Delaware and Rutgers have 17 meetings on file, the first in 1955; Delaware leads the series 10–7 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Delaware 6–4, and Rutgers has won the last 2. Share
- Delaware wins
- 10
- Rutgers wins
- 7
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1955
- Longest streak
- 3 Delaware
- Current streak
- 2 Rutgers
- Last 10 meetings
- Delaware 6–4
- Most recent
- 2021
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 4–1 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 4–4 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 2–1 | ||||||||||
| 2020s | 0–1 |
- Average margin
- 19.8 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Delaware
- 5–2 Delaware’s record at home
- At Rutgers
- 5–5 Rutgers’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 3
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Delaware’s biggest win1969: Delaware 44, Rutgers 0by 44 points
- Rutgers’s biggest win2021: Rutgers 45, Delaware 13by 32 points
- Upset1962: Delaware 23, Rutgers 6Delaware had a 7% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1959: Delaware 34, Rutgers 14Delaware had a 8% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1969: Delaware 44, Rutgers 0Delaware had a 8% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
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
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 18, 2021 | Rutgers 45, Delaware 13 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 20, 1973 | Rutgers 24, Delaware 7 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 16, 1971 | Delaware 48, Rutgers 7 | at Delaware | ||
| Oct 17, 1970 | Delaware 51, Rutgers 21 | at Rutgers | ||
| Nov 1, 1969 | Delaware 44, Rutgers 0 | at Delaware | ||
| Nov 2, 1968 | Rutgers 23, Delaware 14 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 14, 1967 | Rutgers 29, Delaware 21 | at Rutgers | ||
| Nov 14, 1964 | Delaware 27, Rutgers 18 | at Delaware | ||
| Nov 16, 1963 | Delaware 14, Rutgers 3 | at Rutgers | ||
| Nov 10, 1962 | Delaware 23, Rutgers 6 | at Delaware | ||
| Nov 11, 1961 | Rutgers 27, Delaware 19 | at Rutgers | ||
| Nov 12, 1960 | Rutgers 22, Delaware 0 | at Delaware | ||
| Oct 31, 1959 | Delaware 34, Rutgers 14 | at Rutgers | ||
| Nov 1, 1958 | 20Rutgers 37, Delaware 20 | at Delaware | ||
| Nov 2, 1957 | Delaware 23, Rutgers 19 | at Rutgers | ||
| Nov 10, 1956 | Delaware 22, Rutgers 0 | at Delaware | ||
| Oct 29, 1955 | Delaware 33, Rutgers 7 | at Rutgers |
Every game is listed as played on the field.