Duke vs. Virginia

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in. Overtime games from the games’ Wikipedia articles.

1. Duke’s biggest win1943: Duke 49, Virginia 0by 49 points
2. Virginia’s biggest win1990: Virginia 59, Duke 0by 59 points
3. Upset1999: Duke 24, Virginia 17Duke had a 15% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2018: Virginia 28, Duke 14Virginia had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2023: Virginia 30, Duke 27Virginia had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown1952: Duke 21, Virginia 7No. 6 Duke at No. 9 Virginia
7. Ranked showdown1994: Duke 28, Virginia 25No. 13 Virginia at No. 23 Duke

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Duke’s side (Murray 3–⁠0 against Elias). 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). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

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  1930 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 5, 1930

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  1951 · Evening star, Nov 1, 1951

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  1952 · Evening star, Oct 26, 1952

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  1953 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 1, 1953

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  1956 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 30, 1956

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.

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

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
• Virginia vs. North Carolina120 meetings, Virginia 51–⁠65–⁠4
• Virginia vs. Virginia Tech101 meetings, Virginia 34–⁠62–⁠5
• Virginia vs. Maryland80 meetings, Virginia 32–⁠46–⁠2
• Virginia vs. VMI78 meetings, Virginia 53–⁠23–⁠2