Pittsburgh vs. SMU

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

1. Pittsburgh’s biggest win1938: Pittsburgh 34, SMU 7by 27 points
2. SMU’s biggest win2024: SMU 48, Pittsburgh 25by 23 points
3. Ranked showdown1982: SMU 7, Pittsburgh 3No. 6 Pittsburgh at No. 4 SMU
4. Ranked showdown2024: SMU 48, Pittsburgh 25No. 18 Pittsburgh at No. 20 SMU

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.

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

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  1938 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 23, 1938

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Pittsburgh vs. West Virginia101 meetings, Pittsburgh 61–⁠37–⁠3
• Pittsburgh vs. Penn State99 meetings, Pittsburgh 43–⁠52–⁠4
• Pittsburgh vs. Syracuse82 meetings, Pittsburgh 46–⁠33–⁠3
• Pittsburgh vs. Notre Dame74 meetings, Pittsburgh 21–⁠52–⁠1
• SMU vs. TCU103 meetings, SMU 42–⁠54–⁠7
• SMU vs. Rice91 meetings, SMU 49–⁠41–⁠1
• SMU vs. Baylor83 meetings, SMU 36–⁠40–⁠7
• SMU vs. Texas A&M81 meetings, SMU 29–⁠45–⁠7