Penn State vs. Susquehanna

Penn State and Susquehanna first met in 1898 and have played 6 times; Penn State leads the series 6–⁠0. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Penn State 6–⁠0, and Penn State has won the last 6.

Penn State wins
6
Susquehanna wins
0
Ties
0
First meeting
1898
Longest streak
6 Penn State
Current streak
6 Penn State
Last 10 meetings
Penn State 6–⁠0
Most recent
1926

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s1–⁠0
1900s3–⁠0
1910s1–⁠0
1920s1–⁠0
Average margin
39.5 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Penn State
6–⁠0 Penn State’s record at home
Shutouts
5

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Penn State’s biggest win1926: Penn State 82, Susquehanna 0by 82 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Penn State and Susquehanna, 1898 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

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.

From the newspapers

  • The The Middleburgh post's story of the 1898 game: SELINSGROvE.

    1898 · The Middleburgh post, Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa., Oct 20, 1898

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 25, 1926Penn State 82, Susquehanna 0at Penn State
Sep 23, 1916Penn State 27, Susquehanna 0at Penn State
Oct 25, 1902Penn State 55, Susquehanna 0at Penn State
Sep 22, 1901Penn State 17, Susquehanna 0at Penn State
Sep 23, 1900Penn State 17, Susquehanna 0at Penn State
Oct 15, 1898Penn State 45, Susquehanna 6at Penn State

Every game is listed as played on the field.