Ohio vs. Syracuse

Ohio and Syracuse have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1916; Syracuse leads the series 4–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Syracuse 4–⁠0, and Syracuse has won the last 4.

Ohio wins
0
Syracuse wins
4
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1916
Longest streak
4 Syracuse
Current streak
4 Syracuse
Last 10 meetings
Syracuse 4–⁠0
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
1910s0–⁠1
1920s0–⁠1
2020s0–⁠2
Average margin
36.8 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Ohio
0–⁠1 Ohio’s record at home
At Syracuse
3–⁠0 Syracuse’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Ohio and Syracuse, 1916 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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

Biggest days

Anthony Tyus III Ohio16 carries, 203 yards, 2 TD2024 Rushing

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

From the newspapers

  • The The sun's story of the 1916 game: SYRACUSE sWAMPs OHIO. I p.Stste Eleven Rolls ~ score 81 ~ "a q.

    1916 · The sun, New York, Oct 8, 1916

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

Aug 31, 2024Syracuse 38, Ohio 22at Syracuse
Sep 4, 2021Syracuse 29, Ohio 9at Ohio
Oct 1, 1921Syracuse 38, Ohio 0at Syracuse
Oct 7, 1916Syracuse 73, Ohio 0at Syracuse

Every game is listed as played on the field.