LSU vs. Vanderbilt

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

1. LSU’s biggest win1985: LSU 49, Vanderbilt 7by 42 points
2. Vanderbilt’s biggest win1948: Vanderbilt 48, LSU 7by 41 points
3. Upset1990: Vanderbilt 24, LSU 21Vanderbilt had a 28% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1951: Vanderbilt 20, LSU 13Vanderbilt had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Ranked showdown1937: Vanderbilt 7, LSU 6No. 6 LSU at No. 20 Vanderbilt
6. Ranked showdown2025: Vanderbilt 31, LSU 24No. 10 LSU at No. 17 Vanderbilt
7. Ranked showdown1947: LSU 19, Vanderbilt 13No. 19 Vanderbilt at No. 18 LSU

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from LSU’s side (Moore 4–⁠1 against Morrison). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

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

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  1948 · Evening star, Nov 7, 1948

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  1951 · Evening star, Nov 11, 1951

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.

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• LSU vs. Mississippi State115 meetings, LSU 75–⁠37–⁠3
• LSU vs. Ole Miss110 meetings, LSU 64–⁠42–⁠4
• LSU vs. Tulane90 meetings, LSU 63–⁠20–⁠7
• LSU vs. Alabama89 meetings, LSU 26–⁠58–⁠5
• Vanderbilt vs. Tennessee116 meetings, Vanderbilt 31–⁠81–⁠4
• Vanderbilt vs. Ole Miss96 meetings, Vanderbilt 37–⁠57–⁠2
• Vanderbilt vs. Kentucky95 meetings, Vanderbilt 42–⁠49–⁠4
• Vanderbilt vs. Alabama87 meetings, Vanderbilt 19–⁠64–⁠4