Duke vs. Virginia Tech

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

1. Duke’s biggest win1951: Duke 55, Virginia Tech 6by 49 points
2. Virginia Tech’s biggest win2005: Virginia Tech 45, Duke 0by 45 points
3. Upset2014: Virginia Tech 17, Duke 16Virginia Tech had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2013: Duke 13, Virginia Tech 10Duke had a 28% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Duke’s side (Wade 3–⁠0 against McNeish). 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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  1948 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 24, 1948

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  1949 · Evening star, Oct 23, 1949

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.

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  The 2012 game

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  The 2012 game

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  The 2012 game

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  The 2012 game

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  The 2007 game

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  The 2007 game

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).

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 Tech vs. Virginia101 meetings, Virginia Tech 62–⁠34–⁠5
• Virginia Tech vs. VMI75 meetings, Virginia Tech 47–⁠23–⁠5
• Virginia Tech vs. William & Mary64 meetings, Virginia Tech 42–⁠18–⁠4
• Virginia Tech vs. West Virginia54 meetings, Virginia Tech 23–⁠30–⁠1