Navy vs. South Carolina

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

1. Navy’s biggest win1920: Navy 63, South Carolina 0by 63 points
2. South Carolina’s biggest win1983: South Carolina 31, Navy 7by 24 points
3. Upset1984: Navy 38, South Carolina 21Navy had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Navy’s side (Tranquill 1–⁠2 against Morrison). 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 Birmingham age-herald, Nov 14, 1920

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  1955 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 6, 1955

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 2011 game

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  The 2011 game

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  The 2011 game

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  The 2011 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
• South Carolina vs. Clemson117 meetings, South Carolina 43–⁠70–⁠4
• South Carolina vs. Georgia73 meetings, South Carolina 19–⁠52–⁠2
• South Carolina vs. North Carolina60 meetings, South Carolina 20–⁠36–⁠4
• South Carolina vs. Wake Forest56 meetings, South Carolina 34–⁠20–⁠2