LSU vs. Sewanee
LSU and Sewanee first met in 1909 and have played 8 times; Sewanee leads the series 5–3. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Sewanee 5–3. Share
- LSU wins
- 3
- Sewanee wins
- 5
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1909
- Longest streak
- 4 Sewanee
- Current streak
- 1 LSU
- Last 10 meetings
- Sewanee 5–3
- Most recent
- 1932
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1910s | 0–3 | ||||||||||
| 1920s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 2–1 |
- Average margin
- 14.3 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At LSU
- 3–5 LSU’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 4
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- LSU’s biggest win1932: LSU 38, Sewanee 0by 38 points
- Sewanee’s biggest win1910: Sewanee 31, LSU 5by 26 points
- Upset1931: Sewanee 12, LSU 6Sewanee had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
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.
From the newspapers
1909 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 31, 1909
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 29, 1932 | LSU 38, Sewanee 0 | at LSU | ||
| Oct 31, 1931 | Sewanee 12, LSU 6 | at LSU | ||
| Oct 25, 1930 | LSU 12, Sewanee 0 | at LSU | ||
| Oct 12, 1929 | LSU 27, Sewanee 14 | at LSU | ||
| Oct 20, 1917 | Sewanee 3, LSU 0 | at LSU | ||
| Oct 28, 1916 | Sewanee 7, LSU 0 | at LSU | ||
| Oct 29, 1910 | Sewanee 31, LSU 5 | at LSU | ||
| Oct 30, 1909 | Sewanee 15, LSU 6 | at LSU |
Every game is listed as played on the field.