Florida vs. Temple

Florida and Temple have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1937; Temple leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Temple 2–⁠1.

Florida wins
1
Temple wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1937
Longest streak
2 Temple
Current streak
1 Florida
Last 10 meetings
Temple 2–⁠1
Most recent
1987

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠2
1980s1–⁠0
Average margin
13.3 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Florida
1–⁠1 Florida’s record at home
At Temple
1–⁠0 Temple’s record at home

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Florida and Temple, 1937 on1300150017001900194019501960197019801990200020102020

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.

From the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1938 game: POP WARMERS OWLS TR0UNCE FLORIDA, 2O-12

    1938 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Dec 5, 1938

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

Oct 17, 198714Florida 34, Temple 3at Florida
Dec 3, 1938Temple 20, Florida 12at Florida
Oct 8, 1937Temple 7, Florida 6at Temple

Every game is listed as played on the field.