Penn State vs. Temple

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

1. Penn State’s biggest win1995: Penn State 66, Temple 14by 52 points
2. Temple’s biggest win2015: Temple 27, Penn State 10by 17 points

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Penn State’s side (Higgins 7–⁠1 against Morrison). 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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  1932 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 13, 1932

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  1941 · Evening star, Oct 19, 1941

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  1945 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Nov 12, 1945

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  1948 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 14, 1948

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  1952 · Evening star, Sep 21, 1952

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
• Temple vs. Rutgers39 meetings, Temple 16–⁠23
• Temple vs. Boston College39 meetings, Temple 7–⁠30–⁠2
• Temple vs. Syracuse37 meetings, Temple 10–⁠26–⁠1
• Temple vs. West Virginia36 meetings, Temple 12–⁠24