Georgetown vs. Pennsylvania

Georgetown and Pennsylvania have 8 meetings on file, the first in 1893; Pennsylvania leads the series 7–⁠0–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Pennsylvania 7–⁠0, and Pennsylvania has won the last 4.

Georgetown wins
0
Pennsylvania wins
7
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1893
Longest streak
4 Pennsylvania
Current streak
4 Pennsylvania
Last 10 meetings
Pennsylvania 7–⁠0
Most recent
2023

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s0–⁠2
1920s0–⁠1
1930s0–⁠0–⁠1
2000s0–⁠2
2020s0–⁠2
Average margin
18 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Georgetown
0–⁠3 Georgetown’s record at home
At Pennsylvania
4–⁠0–⁠1 Pennsylvania’s record at home
Shutouts
3

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Pennsylvania’s biggest win1894: Pennsylvania 46, Georgetown 0by 46 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Georgetown and Pennsylvania, 1893 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

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 Wood County reporter's story of the 1894 game: FOOTBALL SCORES. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DEFEATS GRINNELL. Purdue Wins From Butler-Prince- ton-Columbia Game Postponed Other Contests.

    1894 · Wood County reporter, Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis., Oct 18, 1894

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story of the 1924 game: PENN DEFEATS GEORGETOWN, 90

    1924 · The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, Nov 9, 1924

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 7, 2023Pennsylvania 42, Georgetown 39at Pennsylvania
Oct 8, 2022Pennsylvania 59, Georgetown 28at Georgetown
Oct 11, 2008Pennsylvania 27, Georgetown 7at Georgetown
Oct 6, 2007Pennsylvania 42, Georgetown 13at Pennsylvania
Oct 23, 1937Pennsylvania 0, Georgetown 0at Pennsylvania
Nov 8, 1924Pennsylvania 3, Georgetown 0at Pennsylvania
Oct 13, 1894Pennsylvania 46, Georgetown 0at Pennsylvania
Oct 10, 1893Pennsylvania 12, Georgetown 0at Georgetown

Every game is listed as played on the field.