Georgia Tech vs. West Virginia

Georgia Tech and West Virginia have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1953; Georgia Tech leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Georgia Tech 2–⁠1.

Georgia Tech wins
2
West Virginia wins
1
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1953
Longest streak
2 Georgia Tech
Current streak
1 West Virginia
Last 10 meetings
Georgia Tech 2–⁠1
Most recent
2006

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s1–⁠0
1990s1–⁠0
2000s0–⁠1
Both ranked
2 meetings: Georgia Tech 1, West Virginia 1
Average margin
10.3 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
Neutral sites
2–⁠1 Georgia Tech first

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 West Virginia, 1953 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Tashard Choice Georgia Tech27 carries, 169 yards, 2 TD2006 Rushing

Named most valuable

Pat White West Virginia2006
Calvin Johnson Georgia Tech2006
Joe Hamilton Georgia Tech1997
Pepper Rodgers Georgia Tech1953

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1953 game: Georgia Tech Clicks On Rodgers Passes In Sugar Bowl Rout

    1953 · Evening star, Jan 2, 1954

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

Jan 1, 200715West Virginia 38, 23Georgia Tech 35Neutral siteGator Bowl
Dec 29, 1997Georgia Tech 35, West Virginia 30Neutral siteCarquest Bowl
Jan 1, 195410Georgia Tech 42, 11West Virginia 19Neutral siteSugar Bowl

Every game is listed as played on the field.