Pittsburgh vs. Western Reserve
Pittsburgh and Western Reserve first met in 1930 and have played 3 times; Pittsburgh leads the series 3–0. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Pittsburgh 3–0, and Pittsburgh has won the last 3. Share
- Pittsburgh wins
- 3
- Western Reserve wins
- 0
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1930
- Longest streak
- 3 Pittsburgh
- Current streak
- 3 Pittsburgh
- Last 10 meetings
- Pittsburgh 3–0
- Most recent
- 1948
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 34.7 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Pittsburgh
- 1–0 Pittsburgh’s record at home
- At Western Reserve
- 0–2 Western Reserve’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 3
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.
From the newspapers
1931 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 18, 1931
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
| Oct 30, 1948 | Pittsburgh 20, Western Reserve 0 | at Western Reserve | ||
| Oct 17, 1931 | Pittsburgh 32, Western Reserve 0 | at Pittsburgh | ||
| Oct 11, 1930 | Pittsburgh 52, Western Reserve 0 | at Western Reserve |
Every game is listed as played on the field.