Fresno State vs. San Francisco

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

1. Fresno State’s biggest win1939: Fresno State 21, San Francisco 2by 19 points
2. San Francisco’s biggest win1942: San Francisco 33, Fresno State 13by 20 points
3. Upset1939: Fresno State 21, San Francisco 2Fresno State had a 20% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

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.

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  1936 · Imperial Valley press, Sep 28, 1936

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 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
• San Francisco vs. Saint Mary’s (CA)19 meetings, San Francisco 5–⁠13–⁠1
• San Francisco vs. Santa Clara17 meetings, San Francisco 3–⁠13–⁠1
• San Francisco vs. Loyola Marymount15 meetings, San Francisco 11–⁠2–⁠2
• San Francisco vs. Nevada10 meetings, San Francisco 8–⁠2