Marshall vs. Virginia Tech

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

1. Marshall’s biggest win1939: Marshall 20, Virginia Tech 0by 20 points
2. Virginia Tech’s biggest win1914: Virginia Tech 54, Marshall 6by 48 points
3. Upset1939: Marshall 20, Virginia Tech 0Marshall had a 14% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1940: Marshall 13, Virginia Tech 7Marshall had a 20% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Ranked showdown2002: Virginia Tech 47, Marshall 21No. 16 Marshall at No. 11 Virginia Tech

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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  1952 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 14, 1952

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Marshall vs. Ohio36 meetings, Marshall 17–⁠19
• Marshall vs. Miami (OH)30 meetings, Marshall 11–⁠18–⁠1
• Marshall vs. Western Michigan27 meetings, Marshall 9–⁠18
• Marshall vs. Kent State27 meetings, Marshall 17–⁠10
• Virginia Tech vs. Virginia101 meetings, Virginia Tech 62–⁠34–⁠5
• Virginia Tech vs. VMI75 meetings, Virginia Tech 47–⁠23–⁠5
• Virginia Tech vs. William & Mary64 meetings, Virginia Tech 42–⁠18–⁠4
• Virginia Tech vs. West Virginia54 meetings, Virginia Tech 23–⁠30–⁠1