Missouri vs. West Virginia

Missouri and West Virginia have 7 meetings on file, the first in 1926; Missouri leads the series 4–⁠3 in the games on file. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Missouri 4–⁠3.

Missouri wins
4
West Virginia wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1926
Longest streak
2 Missouri
Current streak
1 Missouri
Last 10 meetings
Missouri 4–⁠3
Most recent
2019

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s2–⁠0
1990s1–⁠2
2010s1–⁠1
Average margin
20.7 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Missouri
2–⁠1 Missouri’s record at home
At West Virginia
2–⁠1 West Virginia’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0 Missouri first
Shutouts
2

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Missouri’s biggest win2019: Missouri 38, West Virginia 7by 31 points
  2. West Virginia’s biggest win1993: West Virginia 35, Missouri 3by 32 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Missouri and West Virginia, 1926 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

Nick Bolton Missouri7 tackles, 2 for loss, 2 INT, 1 TD2019 Defense

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 1926 game: WEST VIRGINIA BOWS TO MISSOURI, 27 TO 0

    1926 · Evening star, Oct 31, 1926

  • The Evening star's story of the 1927 game: MISSOURI TRIUMPHS OVER WEST VIRGINIA

    1927 · Evening star, Nov 6, 1927

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

Sep 7, 2019Missouri 38, West Virginia 7at Missouri
Sep 3, 2016West Virginia 26, Missouri 11at West Virginia
Dec 26, 199823Missouri 34, West Virginia 31Neutral siteInsight.com Bowl
Oct 1, 1994West Virginia 34, Missouri 10at Missouri
Sep 25, 1993West Virginia 35, Missouri 3at West Virginia
Nov 5, 1927Missouri 13, West Virginia 0at Missouri
Oct 30, 1926Missouri 27, West Virginia 0at West Virginia

Every game is listed as played on the field.