Richmond vs. Virginia
Richmond and Virginia have 29 meetings on file, the first in 1907; Virginia leads the series 24–3–2 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Virginia 9–1, and Virginia has won the last 3. Share
2028 at Virginia; 2031 at Virginia. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).
- Richmond wins
- 3
- Virginia wins
- 24
- Ties
- 2
- Earliest on file
- 1907
- Longest streak
- 10 Virginia
- Current streak
- 3 Virginia
- Last 10 meetings
- Virginia 9–1
- Most recent
- 2024
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1910s | 0–3–1 | ||||||||||
| 1920s | 0–4 | ||||||||||
| 1940s | 2–4–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 0–3 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 1–4 | ||||||||||
| 2020s | 0–2 |
- Average margin
- 25.3 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Richmond
- 1–1–1 Richmond’s record at home
- At Virginia
- 23–2–1 Virginia’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 14
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Richmond’s biggest win2016: Richmond 37, Virginia 20by 17 points
- Virginia’s biggest win1915: Virginia 74, Richmond 0by 74 points
- Upset1943: Richmond 16, Virginia 7Richmond had a 17% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1946: Richmond 19, Virginia 7Richmond had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
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

1907 · The Washington herald, Oct 3, 1907

1915 · Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, Virginia, Oct 10, 1915

1916 · The Washington herald, Oct 15, 1916

1919 · Evening journal, Delaware, Oct 6, 1919

1921 · The Washington herald, Oct 9, 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
Every game is listed as played on the field.