Kansas vs. West Virginia

Kansas and West Virginia have 14 meetings on file, the first in 1941; West Virginia leads the series 11–⁠3 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s West Virginia 8–⁠2.

Kansas wins
3
West Virginia wins
11
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1941
Longest streak
8 West Virginia
Current streak
1 Kansas
Last 10 meetings
West Virginia 8–⁠2
Most recent
2025

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s0–⁠1
2010s1–⁠7
2020s2–⁠3
Average margin
21.1 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Kansas
2–⁠4 Kansas’s record at home
At West Virginia
7–⁠1 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. Kansas’s biggest win2025: Kansas 41, West Virginia 10by 31 points
  2. West Virginia’s biggest win2015: West Virginia 49, Kansas 0by 49 points
  3. Upset2022: Kansas 55, West Virginia 42Kansas had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsKansasSeriesWest Virginia
2015–⁠2018David Beaty0–⁠4Dana Holgorsen
2021–⁠2024Lance Leipold1–⁠2Neal Brown

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Kansas’s side (Beaty 0–⁠4 against Holgorsen). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Kansas and West Virginia, 1941 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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

Geno Smith West Virginia23 of 24, 407 yards, 3 TD, 1 INT2012 Passing
Khalil Herbert Kansas36 carries, 291 yards, 2 TD2017 Rushing
Leddie Brown West Virginia18 carries, 195 yards, 1 TD2020 Rushing
Stedman Bailey West Virginia11 catches, 159 yards, 2 TD2012 Receiving
Gavin Potter Kansas10 tackles, 1.5 for loss, 1 INT, 1 TD2021 Defense

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1941 game: Mountaineers Finish Strong 10 Master Kansas, Il 10 0

    1941 · Evening star, Nov 9, 1941

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, 2026Kansas at West Virginia upcomingat West Virginia
Sep 20, 2025Kansas 41, West Virginia 10at Kansas
Sep 21, 2024West Virginia 32, Kansas 28at West Virginia
Sep 10, 2022Kansas 55, West Virginia 42at West Virginia
Nov 27, 2021West Virginia 34, Kansas 28at Kansas
Oct 17, 2020West Virginia 38, Kansas 17at West Virginia
Sep 21, 2019West Virginia 29, Kansas 24at Kansas
Oct 6, 20189West Virginia 38, Kansas 22at West Virginia
Sep 23, 2017West Virginia 56, Kansas 34at Kansas
Nov 5, 201614West Virginia 48, Kansas 21at West Virginia
Nov 21, 2015West Virginia 49, Kansas 0at Kansas
Oct 4, 2014West Virginia 33, Kansas 14at West Virginia
Nov 16, 2013Kansas 31, West Virginia 19at Kansas
Dec 1, 2012West Virginia 59, Kansas 10at West Virginia
Nov 8, 1941West Virginia 21, Kansas 0at West Virginia

Every game is listed as played on the field.