Furman vs. Virginia Tech

Furman and Virginia Tech have 7 meetings on file, the first in 1939; Virginia Tech leads the series 7–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Virginia Tech 7–⁠0, and Virginia Tech has won the last 7.

Furman wins
0
Virginia Tech wins
7
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1939
Longest streak
7 Virginia Tech
Current streak
7 Virginia Tech
Last 10 meetings
Virginia Tech 7–⁠0
Most recent
2019

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠1
1940s0–⁠3
2000s0–⁠1
2010s0–⁠2
Average margin
15.4 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Furman
0–⁠1 Furman’s record at home
At Virginia Tech
6–⁠0 Virginia Tech’s record at home

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Virginia Tech’s biggest win2015: Virginia Tech 42, Furman 3by 39 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Furman and Virginia Tech, 1939 on130015001700194019501960197019801990200020102020

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 1947 game: FOOTBALL q SCORES

    1947 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Sep 29, 1947

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

Sep 14, 2019Virginia Tech 24, Furman 17at Virginia Tech
Sep 12, 2015Virginia Tech 42, Furman 3at Virginia Tech
Sep 6, 2008Virginia Tech 24, Furman 7at Virginia Tech
Sep 27, 1947Virginia Tech 20, Furman 6at Virginia Tech
Sep 26, 1942Virginia Tech 7, Furman 6at Furman
Nov 9, 1940Virginia Tech 38, Furman 21at Virginia Tech
Nov 4, 1939Virginia Tech 20, Furman 7at Virginia Tech

Every game is listed as played on the field.