Rutgers vs. UConn

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

1. Rutgers’s biggest win1976: Rutgers 38, UConn 0by 38 points
2. UConn’s biggest win1956: UConn 27, Rutgers 7by 20 points
3. Upset1962: UConn 15, Rutgers 9UConn had a 20% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2001: UConn 20, Rutgers 19UConn had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1974: UConn 9, Rutgers 7UConn had a 25% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Rutgers’s side (Schiano 5–⁠4 against Edsall). 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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  1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 6, 1957

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
• UConn vs. Yale34 meetings, UConn 4–⁠30
• UConn vs. Holy Cross24 meetings, UConn 8–⁠15–⁠1
• UConn vs. South Florida18 meetings, UConn 5–⁠13
• UConn vs. Temple17 meetings, UConn 7–⁠10