Ohio vs. West Virginia

Ohio and West Virginia have 11 meetings on file, the first in 1921; West Virginia leads the series 8–⁠3 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s West Virginia 7–⁠3.

Scheduled 2027 at West Virginia; 2029 at West Virginia. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).

Ohio wins
3
West Virginia wins
8
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1921
Longest streak
4 West Virginia
Current streak
1 Ohio
Last 10 meetings
West Virginia 7–⁠3
Most recent
2025

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s0–⁠2
1930s0–⁠1
1940s2–⁠1
1980s0–⁠3
2000s0–⁠1
2020s1–⁠0
Average margin
21.8 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Ohio
2–⁠0 Ohio’s record at home
At West Virginia
8–⁠1 West Virginia’s record at home
Shutouts
4

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Ohio’s biggest win1945: Ohio 14, West Virginia 0by 14 points
  2. West Virginia’s biggest win1983: West Virginia 55, Ohio 3by 52 points
  3. Upset1945: Ohio 14, West Virginia 0Ohio had a 18% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset1949: Ohio 17, West Virginia 7Ohio had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Ohio and West Virginia, 1921 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

Biggest days

Chase Wilson West Virginia7 tackles, 2 sacks, 2 for loss, 1 INT2025 Defense

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

From the newspapers

  • The The New York herald's story of the 1922 game: Ohio University Loses to West Virginia by 28 to 0

    1922 · The New York herald, Nov 26, 1922

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

Sep 6, 2025Ohio 17, West Virginia 10at Ohio
Sep 8, 2001West Virginia 20, Ohio 3at West Virginia
Sep 5, 1987West Virginia 23, Ohio 3at West Virginia
Sep 1, 1984West Virginia 38, Ohio 0at West Virginia
Sep 3, 1983West Virginia 55, Ohio 3at West Virginia
Sep 24, 1949Ohio 17, West Virginia 7at Ohio
Nov 6, 1948West Virginia 48, Ohio 6at West Virginia
Nov 17, 1945Ohio 14, West Virginia 0at West Virginia
Nov 3, 1934West Virginia 7, Ohio 2at West Virginia
Nov 25, 1922West Virginia 28, Ohio 0at West Virginia
Oct 15, 1921West Virginia 7, Ohio 0at West Virginia

Every game is listed as played on the field.