Penn State vs. Rutgers

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

1. Penn State’s biggest win2022: Penn State 55, Rutgers 10by 45 points
2. Rutgers’s biggest win1918: Rutgers 26, Penn State 3by 23 points
3. Upset1988: Rutgers 21, Penn State 16Rutgers had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Penn State’s side (Engle 6–⁠0 against Harman). 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.

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

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  1918 · Perth Amboy evening news, New Jersey, Nov 11, 1918

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  1951 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 18, 1951

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  1952 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 16, 1952

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  1953 · Evening star, Nov 15, 1953

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  1955 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 13, 1955

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.

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Penn State vs. Pittsburgh99 meetings, Penn State 52–⁠43–⁠4
• Penn State vs. Syracuse71 meetings, Penn State 43–⁠23–⁠5
• Penn State vs. West Virginia61 meetings, Penn State 50–⁠9–⁠2
• Penn State vs. Maryland48 meetings, Penn State 44–⁠3–⁠1
• Rutgers vs. Princeton71 meetings, Rutgers 17–⁠53–⁠1
• Rutgers vs. Lafayette52 meetings, Rutgers 35–⁠16–⁠1
• Rutgers vs. Lehigh51 meetings, Rutgers 24–⁠27
• Rutgers vs. Columbia49 meetings, Rutgers 23–⁠21–⁠5