Rutgers vs. Syracuse

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

1. Rutgers’s biggest win2006: Rutgers 38, Syracuse 7by 31 points
2. Syracuse’s biggest win1998: Syracuse 70, Rutgers 14by 56 points
3. Upset1999: Rutgers 24, Syracuse 21Rutgers had a 12% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1949: Syracuse 21, Rutgers 9Syracuse had a 19% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2009: Syracuse 31, Rutgers 13Syracuse had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Rutgers’s side (Sanford 0–⁠3–⁠1 against O’Neill). 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).

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  1914 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 8, 1914

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  1917 · The Bridgeport evening farmer, Connecticut, Oct 15, 1917

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  1918 · The sun, New York [N.Y.], Dec 1, 1918

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  1919 · Perth Amboy evening news, New Jersey, Nov 5, 1919

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; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.

• Rutgers vs. Princeton71 meetings, Rutgers 17–⁠53–⁠1
• Rutgers vs. Lafayette52 meetings, Rutgers 35–⁠16–⁠1
• Rutgers vs. Lehigh51 meetings, Rutgers 24–⁠27
• Rutgers vs. Columbia49 meetings, Rutgers 23–⁠21–⁠5
• Syracuse vs. Pittsburgh82 meetings, Syracuse 33–⁠46–⁠3
• Syracuse vs. Penn State71 meetings, Syracuse 23–⁠43–⁠5
• Syracuse vs. West Virginia61 meetings, Syracuse 34–⁠27
• Syracuse vs. Colgate61 meetings, Syracuse 32–⁠25–⁠4