Fresno State vs. Nevada

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

1. Fresno State’s biggest win2001: Fresno State 61, Nevada 14by 47 points
2. Nevada’s biggest win1948: Nevada 53, Fresno State 7by 46 points
3. Upset1982: Nevada 40, Fresno State 26Nevada had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2005: Nevada 38, Fresno State 35Nevada had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2008: Nevada 41, Fresno State 28Nevada had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Fresno State’s side (Hill 4–⁠0 against Tormey). 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 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Nov 12, 1948

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 2005 game

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  The 2005 game

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  The 2005 game

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  The 2005 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.

• Fresno State vs. San José State71 meetings, Fresno State 40–⁠31
• Fresno State vs. Pacific41 meetings, Fresno State 25–⁠15–⁠1
• Fresno State vs. Hawai’i40 meetings, Fresno State 19–⁠20–⁠1
• Fresno State vs. Utah State34 meetings, Fresno State 19–⁠14–⁠1
• Nevada vs. UNLV42 meetings, Nevada 25–⁠17
• Nevada vs. San José State29 meetings, Nevada 21–⁠8
• Nevada vs. Utah State27 meetings, Nevada 18–⁠9
• Nevada vs. Hawai’i27 meetings, Nevada 14–⁠13