Duke vs. Pittsburgh

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

1. Duke’s biggest win1942: Duke 28, Pittsburgh 0by 28 points
2. Pittsburgh’s biggest win1929: Pittsburgh 52, Duke 7by 45 points
3. Upset1955: Pittsburgh 26, Duke 7Pittsburgh had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2019: Pittsburgh 33, Duke 30Pittsburgh had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1969: Pittsburgh 14, Duke 12Pittsburgh had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown1938: Duke 7, Pittsburgh 0No. 4 Pittsburgh at No. 3 Duke
7. Ranked showdown1937: Pittsburgh 10, Duke 0No. 1 Pittsburgh at No. 18 Duke

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Duke’s side (Wade 2–⁠1 against Bowser). 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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  1929 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 6, 1929

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  1937 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 28, 1937

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  1938 · Evening star, Nov 27, 1938

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  1939 · Evening star, Oct 15, 1939

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  1941 · Evening star, Oct 26, 1941

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.

• Duke vs. North Carolina106 meetings, Duke 38–⁠64–⁠4
• Duke vs. Wake Forest102 meetings, Duke 60–⁠40–⁠2
• Duke vs. Georgia Tech93 meetings, Duke 35–⁠57–⁠1
• Duke vs. NC State86 meetings, Duke 44–⁠37–⁠5
• Pittsburgh vs. West Virginia101 meetings, Pittsburgh 61–⁠37–⁠3
• Pittsburgh vs. Penn State99 meetings, Pittsburgh 43–⁠52–⁠4
• Pittsburgh vs. Syracuse82 meetings, Pittsburgh 46–⁠33–⁠3
• Pittsburgh vs. Notre Dame74 meetings, Pittsburgh 21–⁠52–⁠1