Maryland vs. Virginia Tech

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

1. Maryland’s biggest win1950: Maryland 63, Virginia Tech 7by 56 points
2. Virginia Tech’s biggest win2004: Virginia Tech 55, Maryland 6by 49 points
3. Upset2013: Maryland 27, Virginia Tech 24Maryland had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1920: Maryland 7, Virginia Tech 0Maryland had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1932: Virginia Tech 23, Maryland 0Virginia Tech had a 35% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Maryland’s side (Byrd 1–⁠4 against Cubbage). 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). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

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  1922 · Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, Virginia, Nov 5, 1922

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  1945 · The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., Oct 21, 1945

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  1947 · Evening star, Oct 26, 1947

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  1949 · Evening star, Sep 27, 1949

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
• 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