Miami (OH) vs. Pittsburgh

Miami (OH) and Pittsburgh have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1931; Pittsburgh leads the series 3–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Pittsburgh 3–⁠0, and Pittsburgh has won the last 3.

Miami (OH) wins
0
Pittsburgh wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1931
Longest streak
3 Pittsburgh
Current streak
3 Pittsburgh
Last 10 meetings
Pittsburgh 3–⁠0
Most recent
2026

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠1
1940s0–⁠1
2020s0–⁠1
Average margin
38.3 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Pittsburgh
3–⁠0 Pittsburgh’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Miami (OH) and Pittsburgh, 1931 on13001500170019401960198020002020

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.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Mason Heintschel Pittsburgh31 of 41, 453 yards, 7 TD2026 Passing

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

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1949 game: Unbeaten Pitt Defeats Miami Of Ohio, 1915

    1949 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 16, 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.

On television

2026The CW0.5 million viewers

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

Every game

Sep 5, 2026Pittsburgh 59, Miami (OH) 14at Pittsburgh
Oct 15, 194915Pittsburgh 35, Miami (OH) 26at Pittsburgh
Sep 26, 1931Pittsburgh 61, Miami (OH) 0at Pittsburgh

Every game is listed as played on the field.