East Carolina vs. Virginia Tech

East Carolina and Virginia Tech have 22 meetings on file, the first in 1956; Virginia Tech leads the series 15–⁠7 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Virginia Tech 7–⁠3, and Virginia Tech has won the last 2.

East Carolina wins
7
Virginia Tech wins
15
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1956
Longest streak
6 Virginia Tech
Current streak
2 Virginia Tech
Last 10 meetings
Virginia Tech 7–⁠3
Most recent
2017

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s0–⁠1
1980s2–⁠1
1990s2–⁠5
2000s1–⁠3
2010s2–⁠5
Average margin
15 points; 10 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At East Carolina
3–⁠7 East Carolina’s record at home
At Virginia Tech
7–⁠3 Virginia Tech’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠1 East Carolina first

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

Games that tell the story

  1. East Carolina’s biggest win1987: East Carolina 32, Virginia Tech 23by 9 points
  2. Virginia Tech’s biggest win2017: Virginia Tech 64, East Carolina 17by 47 points
  3. Upset2008: East Carolina 27, Virginia Tech 22East Carolina had a 28% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset1987: East Carolina 32, Virginia Tech 23East Carolina had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsEast CarolinaSeriesVirginia Tech
1989–⁠1991Bill Lewis2–⁠1Frank Beamer
1992–⁠2000Steve Logan1–⁠5Frank Beamer
2007–⁠2009Skip Holtz1–⁠2Frank Beamer
2010–⁠2015Ruffin McNeill2–⁠3Frank Beamer

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from East Carolina’s side (Lewis 2–⁠1 against Beamer). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of East Carolina and Virginia Tech, 1956 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Cam Phillips Virginia Tech14 catches, 189 yards, 3 TD2017 Receiving

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

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1956 game: VMI Beats Stetson In Football Opener

    1956 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 16, 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.

On television

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game once: 2007.

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA).

Photos

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

Every game

Sep 16, 201716Virginia Tech 64, East Carolina 17at East Carolina
Sep 24, 2016Virginia Tech 54, East Carolina 17at Virginia Tech
Sep 26, 2015East Carolina 35, Virginia Tech 28at East Carolina
Sep 13, 2014East Carolina 28, 17Virginia Tech 21at Virginia Tech
Sep 14, 2013Virginia Tech 15, East Carolina 10at East Carolina
Sep 10, 201111Virginia Tech 17, East Carolina 10at East Carolina
Sep 18, 2010Virginia Tech 49, East Carolina 27at Virginia Tech
Nov 5, 200922Virginia Tech 16, East Carolina 3at East Carolina
Aug 30, 2008East Carolina 27, 17Virginia Tech 22Neutral site
Sep 1, 20079Virginia Tech 17, East Carolina 7at Virginia Tech
Sep 7, 200010Virginia Tech 45, East Carolina 28at East Carolina
Sep 5, 1998Virginia Tech 38, East Carolina 3at Virginia Tech
Nov 9, 199625Virginia Tech 35, East Carolina 14at Virginia Tech
Oct 15, 199419Virginia Tech 27, East Carolina 20at East Carolina
Oct 30, 1993Virginia Tech 31, East Carolina 12at Virginia Tech
Sep 12, 1992East Carolina 30, Virginia Tech 27at East Carolina
Nov 16, 199114East Carolina 24, Virginia Tech 17at Virginia Tech
Sep 15, 1990Virginia Tech 24, East Carolina 23at East Carolina
Oct 21, 1989East Carolina 14, Virginia Tech 10at East Carolina
Sep 10, 1988Virginia Tech 27, East Carolina 16at Virginia Tech
Oct 17, 1987East Carolina 32, Virginia Tech 23at Virginia Tech
Sep 15, 1956Virginia Tech 37, East Carolina 2Neutral site

Every game is listed as played on the field.