Navy vs. Tulane

Navy and Tulane have 26 meetings on file, the first in 1949; Tulane leads the series 13–⁠12–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Navy 7–⁠3.

Navy wins
12
Tulane wins
13
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1949
Longest streak
5 Tulane
Current streak
1 Tulane
Last 10 meetings
Navy 7–⁠3
Most recent
2024

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s0–⁠0–⁠1
1950s0–⁠3
1970s0–⁠1
1990s5–⁠3
2000s2–⁠4
2010s4–⁠1
2020s1–⁠1
Average margin
14 points; 10 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Navy
9–⁠3 Navy’s record at home
At Tulane
9–⁠3–⁠1 Tulane’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠1 Navy first
Shutouts
2

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Navy’s biggest win2005: Navy 49, Tulane 21by 28 points
  2. Tulane’s biggest win2024: Tulane 35, Navy 0by 35 points
  3. Upset1958: Tulane 14, Navy 6Tulane had a 16% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsNavySeriesTulane
1992–⁠1994George Chaump2–⁠1Buddy Teevens
2002–⁠2005Paul Johnson2–⁠2Chris Scelfo
2016–⁠2020Ken Niumatalolo4–⁠1Willie Fritz

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Navy’s side (Chaump 2–⁠1 against Teevens). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Navy and Tulane, 1949 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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.

From the newspapers

  • The The globe-independent's story of the 1950 game: BEHIND HOME PLATE

    1950 · The globe-independent, Hagerstown, Md., Nov 16, 1950

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.

Photos

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

Every game

Nov 16, 202425Tulane 35, Navy 0at Navy
Sep 19, 2020Navy 27, Tulane 24at Tulane
Oct 26, 2019Navy 41, Tulane 38at Navy
Nov 24, 2018Tulane 29, Navy 28at Tulane
Sep 9, 2017Navy 23, Tulane 21at Navy
Sep 17, 2016Navy 21, Tulane 14at Tulane
Oct 24, 2015Navy 31, Tulane 14at Navy
Nov 5, 2005Navy 49, Tulane 21at Navy
Nov 6, 2004Tulane 42, Navy 10at Tulane
Nov 1, 2003Navy 35, Tulane 17at Navy
Oct 26, 2002Tulane 51, Navy 30at Tulane
Nov 10, 2001Tulane 42, Navy 28at Navy
Nov 11, 2000Tulane 50, Navy 38at Tulane
Nov 13, 1999Navy 45, Tulane 21at Navy
Sep 26, 1998Tulane 42, Navy 24at Tulane
Nov 16, 1996Navy 35, Tulane 21at Navy
Nov 18, 1995Navy 35, Tulane 7at Navy
Nov 5, 1994Navy 17, Tulane 15at Tulane
Oct 2, 1993Tulane 27, Navy 25at Tulane
Nov 7, 1992Navy 20, Tulane 17at Navy
Nov 9, 1991Tulane 34, Navy 7at Tulane
Nov 10, 1973Tulane 17, Navy 15at Tulane
Oct 18, 1958Tulane 14, 6Navy 6Neutral site
Oct 13, 1956Tulane 21, 14Navy 6at Tulane
Nov 11, 1950Tulane 27, Navy 0at Navy
Nov 5, 1949Tulane 21, Navy 21at Tulane

Every game is listed as played on the field.