Indiana vs. West Virginia

Indiana and West Virginia have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1922; the series is tied 3–⁠3 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s even at 3–⁠3.

Indiana wins
3
West Virginia wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1922
Longest streak
2 Indiana
Current streak
1 West Virginia
Last 10 meetings
even at 3–⁠3
Most recent
1974

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s0–⁠1
1950s1–⁠0
1960s1–⁠0
1970s1–⁠2
Average margin
14.3 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Indiana
1–⁠3 Indiana’s record at home
At West Virginia
0–⁠2 West Virginia’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Indiana’s biggest win1973: Indiana 28, West Virginia 14by 14 points
  2. West Virginia’s biggest win1922: West Virginia 33, Indiana 0by 33 points
  3. Upset1973: Indiana 28, West Virginia 14Indiana had a 20% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset1958: Indiana 13, West Virginia 12Indiana had a 31% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  5. Upset1961: Indiana 17, West Virginia 9Indiana had a 35% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Indiana and West Virginia, 1922 on130015001700190019401960198020002020

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 South Bend news-times's story of the 1922 game: WEST VIRGINIA IS EASY WINNER OVER HOLSTERS, SS TO 0 Indiana Meets Worst Defeat of asOn in Homecoming Game at Bloomington.

    1922 · South Bend news-times, South Bend, Ind., Nov 12, 1922

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 5, 1974West Virginia 24, Indiana 0at Indiana
Oct 6, 1973Indiana 28, 20West Virginia 14at West Virginia
Oct 3, 197014West Virginia 16, Indiana 10at Indiana
Nov 18, 1961Indiana 17, West Virginia 9at West Virginia
Oct 4, 1958Indiana 13, West Virginia 12at Indiana
Nov 11, 1922West Virginia 33, Indiana 0at Indiana

Every game is listed as played on the field.