Navy vs. Washington

Navy and Washington have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1923; Washington leads the series 3–⁠2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Washington 3–⁠2.

Navy wins
2
Washington wins
3
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1923
Longest streak
2 Washington
Current streak
1 Washington
Last 10 meetings
Washington 3–⁠2
Most recent
1983

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s0–⁠0–⁠1
1960s1–⁠0
1970s0–⁠2
1980s1–⁠1
Both ranked
1 meeting: Navy 1, Washington 0
Average margin
13.7 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Washington
3–⁠2 Washington’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠0–⁠1 Navy first

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Navy’s biggest win1980: Navy 24, Washington 10by 14 points
  2. Washington’s biggest win1970: Washington 56, Navy 7by 49 points
  3. Upset1980: Navy 24, Washington 10Navy had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Ranked showdown1960: Navy 15, Washington 14No. 17 Navy at No. 3 Washington

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Navy and Washington, 1923 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

Named most valuable

Ira McKee Navy1923

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Imperial Valley press's story of the 1923 game: l4-l4 SCORE AT PASADENA MAKES THRILLING GAME McKee's Passing for Navy Brilliant Feature of Event

    1923 · Imperial Valley press, California, Jan 2, 1924

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

Oct 1, 198318Washington 27, Navy 10at Washington
Oct 25, 1980Navy 24, 18Washington 10at Washington
Sep 27, 1975Washington 14, Navy 13at Washington
Oct 3, 1970Washington 56, Navy 7at Washington
Oct 1, 196017Navy 15, 3Washington 14at Washington
Jan 1, 1924Washington 14, Navy 14Neutral siteRose Bowl

Every game is listed as played on the field.