Navy vs. SMU

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

1. Navy’s biggest win2016: Navy 75, SMU 31by 44 points
2. SMU’s biggest win2023: SMU 59, Navy 14by 45 points
3. Upset2002: Navy 38, SMU 7Navy had a 28% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1963: SMU 32, Navy 28SMU had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Navy’s side (Niumatalolo 4–⁠0 against Jones). 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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  1930 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 16, 1930

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  1959 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 3, 1959

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.

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  The 2015 game

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  The 2015 game

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  The 2015 game

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  The 2015 game

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  The 2010 game

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  The 2010 game

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Navy vs. Army125 meetings, Navy 63–⁠55–⁠7
• Navy vs. Notre Dame98 meetings, Navy 13–⁠84–⁠1
• Navy vs. Air Force59 meetings, Navy 24–⁠35
• Navy vs. Pennsylvania47 meetings, Navy 21–⁠22–⁠4
• SMU vs. TCU103 meetings, SMU 42–⁠54–⁠7
• SMU vs. Rice91 meetings, SMU 49–⁠41–⁠1
• SMU vs. Baylor83 meetings, SMU 36–⁠40–⁠7
• SMU vs. Texas A&M81 meetings, SMU 29–⁠45–⁠7