Florida vs. Syracuse
Florida and Syracuse first met in 1931 and have played 4 times; the series is tied 2–2. Over the last 4 meetings it’s even at 2–2. Share
- Florida wins
- 2
- Syracuse wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1931
- Longest streak
- 1 Syracuse
- Current streak
- 1 Florida
- Last 10 meetings
- even at 2–2
- Most recent
- 1998
The series at a glance
- Both ranked
- 2 meetings: Florida 1, Syracuse 1
- Average margin
- 18.8 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Florida
- 1–0 Florida’s record at home
- At Syracuse
- 2–0 Syracuse’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–0 Florida first
- Shutouts
- 1
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Both programs through the years
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
Named most valuable
| Florida WR Travis Taylor | 1998 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1931 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 18, 1931
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
| Jan 2, 1999 | 7Florida 31, 18Syracuse 10 | Neutral site | Orange Bowl | |
| Sep 21, 1991 | 18Syracuse 38, 5Florida 21 | at Syracuse | ||
| Oct 6, 1984 | Florida 16, Syracuse 0 | at Florida | ||
| Oct 17, 1931 | Syracuse 33, Florida 12 | at Syracuse |
Every game is listed as played on the field.