Nevada vs. San Francisco

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

1. Nevada’s biggest win1948: Nevada 26, San Francisco 7by 19 points
2. San Francisco’s biggest win1950: San Francisco 66, Nevada 6by 60 points
3. Upset1933: Nevada 12, San Francisco 7Nevada had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Nevada’s side (Sheeketski 1–⁠2 against Kuharich). 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.

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  1948 · Evening star, Oct 7, 1948

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Nevada vs. UNLV42 meetings, Nevada 25–⁠17
• Nevada vs. Fresno State33 meetings, Nevada 14–⁠19
• Nevada vs. San José State29 meetings, Nevada 21–⁠8
• Nevada vs. Utah State27 meetings, Nevada 18–⁠9
• San Francisco vs. Saint Mary’s (CA)19 meetings, San Francisco 5–⁠13–⁠1
• San Francisco vs. Santa Clara17 meetings, San Francisco 3–⁠13–⁠1
• San Francisco vs. Loyola Marymount15 meetings, San Francisco 11–⁠2–⁠2
• San Francisco vs. San José State10 meetings, San Francisco 8–⁠2