Penn State vs. Washington
Penn State and Washington have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1921; Penn State leads the series 4–0 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Penn State 4–0, and Penn State has won the last 4. Share
- Penn State wins
- 4
- Washington wins
- 0
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1921
- Longest streak
- 4 Penn State
- Current streak
- 4 Penn State
- Last 10 meetings
- Penn State 4–0
- Most recent
- 2024
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 2020s | 1–0 |
- Both ranked
- 1 meeting: Penn State 1, Washington 0
- Average margin
- 13.3 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Penn State
- 1–0 Penn State’s record at home
- At Washington
- 0–1 Washington’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 2–0 Penn State first
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Both programs through the years
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
Named most valuable
| Trace McSorley | 2017 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1921 · The Birmingham age-herald, Dec 4, 1921
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
| Nov 7, 2026 | Penn State at Washington upcoming | at Washington | ||
| Nov 9, 2024 | 6Penn State 35, Washington 6 | at Penn State | ||
| Dec 30, 2017 | 9Penn State 35, 12Washington 28 | State Farm Stadium | Fiesta Bowl | |
| Dec 26, 1983 | Penn State 13, Washington 10 | Neutral site | Aloha Bowl | |
| Dec 3, 1921 | Penn State 21, Washington 7 | at Washington |
Every game is listed as played on the field.