Rutgers vs. Temple

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

1. Rutgers’s biggest win1993: Rutgers 62, Temple 0by 62 points
2. Temple’s biggest win1997: Temple 49, Rutgers 7by 42 points
3. Upset1988: Temple 35, Rutgers 30Temple had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1982: Rutgers 10, Temple 7Rutgers had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1981: Temple 24, Rutgers 12Temple had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Rutgers’s side (Harman 2–⁠2 against Kawal). 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.

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  1948 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 11, 1948

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  1950 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 15, 1950

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  1951 · Evening star, Oct 7, 1951

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.

• 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
• Temple vs. Penn State46 meetings, Temple 4–⁠41–⁠1
• Temple vs. Boston College39 meetings, Temple 7–⁠30–⁠2
• Temple vs. Syracuse37 meetings, Temple 10–⁠26–⁠1
• Temple vs. West Virginia36 meetings, Temple 12–⁠24