Duke vs. Syracuse

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

1. Duke’s biggest win2025: Duke 38, Syracuse 3by 35 points
2. Syracuse’s biggest win2019: Syracuse 49, Duke 6by 43 points
3. Upset2020: Duke 38, Syracuse 24Duke had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2019: Syracuse 49, Duke 6Syracuse had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2025: Duke 38, Syracuse 3Duke had a 35% 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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1938 · Henderson daily dispatch, Henderson, N.C., Nov 14, 1938

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  1939 · Henderson daily dispatch, Henderson, N.C., Oct 24, 1939

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
• 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. Colgate61 meetings, Syracuse 32–⁠25–⁠4