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. Share
- 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
- 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
- Kansas’s biggest win2025: Kansas 41, West Virginia 10by 31 points
- West Virginia’s biggest win2015: West Virginia 49, Kansas 0by 49 points
- Upset2022: Kansas 55, West Virginia 42Kansas had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
Coach against coach
| Years | Kansas | Series | West Virginia |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015–2018 | David Beaty | 0–4 | Dana Holgorsen |
| 2021–2024 | Lance Leipold | 1–2 | Neal 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
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 Virginia | 23 of 24, 407 yards, 3 TD, 1 INT | 2012 Passing | |
| Khalil Herbert Kansas | 36 carries, 291 yards, 2 TD | 2017 Rushing | |
| Leddie Brown West Virginia | 18 carries, 195 yards, 1 TD | 2020 Rushing | |
| Stedman Bailey West Virginia | 11 catches, 159 yards, 2 TD | 2012 Receiving | |
| Gavin Potter Kansas | 10 tackles, 1.5 for loss, 1 INT, 1 TD | 2021 Defense |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).
From the newspapers

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, 2026 | Kansas at West Virginia upcoming | at West Virginia | ||
| Sep 20, 2025 | Kansas 41, West Virginia 10 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 21, 2024 | West Virginia 32, Kansas 28 | at West Virginia | ||
| Sep 10, 2022 | Kansas 55, West Virginia 42 | at West Virginia | ||
| Nov 27, 2021 | West Virginia 34, Kansas 28 | at Kansas | ||
| Oct 17, 2020 | West Virginia 38, Kansas 17 | at West Virginia | ||
| Sep 21, 2019 | West Virginia 29, Kansas 24 | at Kansas | ||
| Oct 6, 2018 | 9West Virginia 38, Kansas 22 | at West Virginia | ||
| Sep 23, 2017 | West Virginia 56, Kansas 34 | at Kansas | ||
| Nov 5, 2016 | 14West Virginia 48, Kansas 21 | at West Virginia | ||
| Nov 21, 2015 | West Virginia 49, Kansas 0 | at Kansas | ||
| Oct 4, 2014 | West Virginia 33, Kansas 14 | at West Virginia | ||
| Nov 16, 2013 | Kansas 31, West Virginia 19 | at Kansas | ||
| Dec 1, 2012 | West Virginia 59, Kansas 10 | at West Virginia | ||
| Nov 8, 1941 | West Virginia 21, Kansas 0 | at West Virginia |
Every game is listed as played on the field.