Georgia Tech vs. Pennsylvania

Georgia Tech and Pennsylvania have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1917; Pennsylvania leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Pennsylvania 2–⁠1, and Pennsylvania has won the last 2.

Georgia Tech wins
1
Pennsylvania wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1917
Longest streak
2 Pennsylvania
Current streak
2 Pennsylvania
Last 10 meetings
Pennsylvania 2–⁠1
Most recent
1931

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s1–⁠0
1930s0–⁠2
Average margin
23 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Georgia Tech
1–⁠0 Georgia Tech’s record at home
At Pennsylvania
2–⁠0 Pennsylvania’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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 Georgia Tech and Pennsylvania, 1917 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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 Evening star's story of the 1917 game: |PENN IS SWAMPED BY GEORGIA TECH Red and Blue Eleven Showed Under at Atlanta by a Score of Al to O.

    1917 · Evening star, Oct 7, 1917

  • The Evening star's story of the 1930 game: PENN OvERWHELMS GEORGIA TECH, A-7 Golden Tornado Shows Fight in Third Quarter and Gets Lone Score.

    1930 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 16, 1930

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

Nov 14, 1931Pennsylvania 13, Georgia Tech 12at Pennsylvania
Nov 15, 1930Pennsylvania 34, Georgia Tech 7at Pennsylvania
Oct 6, 1917Georgia Tech 41, Pennsylvania 0at Georgia Tech

Every game is listed as played on the field.