Pittsburgh vs. Virginia

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

1. Pittsburgh’s biggest win2022: Pittsburgh 37, Virginia 7by 30 points
2. Virginia’s biggest win2007: Virginia 44, Pittsburgh 14by 30 points
3. Upset2024: Virginia 24, Pittsburgh 19Virginia had a 25% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Pittsburgh’s side (Narduzzi 4–⁠1 against Mendenhall). 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). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

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  1953 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 8, 1953

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
• Virginia vs. North Carolina120 meetings, Virginia 51–⁠65–⁠4
• Virginia vs. Virginia Tech101 meetings, Virginia 34–⁠62–⁠5
• Virginia vs. Maryland80 meetings, Virginia 32–⁠46–⁠2
• Virginia vs. VMI78 meetings, Virginia 53–⁠23–⁠2