Maryland vs. Rutgers

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

1. Maryland’s biggest win2019: Maryland 48, Rutgers 7by 41 points
2. Rutgers’s biggest win2009: Rutgers 34, Maryland 13by 21 points
3. Upset2007: Maryland 34, Rutgers 24Maryland had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1941: Rutgers 20, Maryland 0Rutgers had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2020: Rutgers 27, Maryland 24Rutgers had a 31% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Maryland’s side (Locksley 3–⁠4 against Schiano). 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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  1920 · The New York herald, New York, N.Y., Oct 3, 1920

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  1921 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 2, 1921

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  1925 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 11, 1925

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  1939 · Evening star, Oct 22, 1939

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  1940 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Nov 22, 1940

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.

• Maryland vs. Virginia80 meetings, Maryland 46–⁠32–⁠2
• Maryland vs. North Carolina70 meetings, Maryland 32–⁠37–⁠1
• Maryland vs. NC State70 meetings, Maryland 34–⁠32–⁠4
• Maryland vs. Clemson62 meetings, Maryland 26–⁠34–⁠2
• Rutgers vs. Princeton71 meetings, Rutgers 17–⁠53–⁠1
• Rutgers vs. Lafayette52 meetings, Rutgers 35–⁠16–⁠1
• Rutgers vs. Lehigh51 meetings, Rutgers 24–⁠27
• Rutgers vs. Columbia49 meetings, Rutgers 23–⁠21–⁠5