Rutgers vs. Villanova
Rutgers and Villanova have 13 meetings on file, the first in 1906; Rutgers leads the series 7–6 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s even at 5–5. Share
- Rutgers wins
- 7
- Villanova wins
- 6
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1906
- Longest streak
- 2 Rutgers
- Current streak
- 1 Rutgers
- Last 10 meetings
- even at 5–5
- Most recent
- 2005
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1910s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1920s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 0–2 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 2–1 |
- Average margin
- 17.8 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Rutgers
- 7–5 Rutgers’s record at home
- At Villanova
- 1–0 Villanova’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 3
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Rutgers’s biggest win1923: Rutgers 44, Villanova 0by 44 points
- Villanova’s biggest win1962: Villanova 34, Rutgers 12by 22 points
- Upset1960: Villanova 14, Rutgers 12Villanova had a 15% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1979: Villanova 32, Rutgers 17Villanova had a 20% 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
1906 · Waterbury evening Democrat, Oct 17, 1906
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
| Sep 10, 2005 | Rutgers 38, Villanova 6 | at Rutgers | ||
| Aug 31, 2002 | Villanova 37, Rutgers 19 | at Rutgers | ||
| Sep 2, 2000 | Rutgers 34, Villanova 21 | at Rutgers | ||
| Aug 31, 1996 | Rutgers 38, Villanova 28 | at Rutgers | ||
| Nov 17, 1979 | Villanova 32, Rutgers 17 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 21, 1978 | Rutgers 24, Villanova 9 | at Rutgers | ||
| Nov 17, 1962 | Villanova 34, Rutgers 12 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 29, 1960 | Villanova 14, Rutgers 12 | at Rutgers | ||
| Nov 14, 1959 | Rutgers 12, Villanova 6 | at Rutgers | ||
| Dec 2, 1933 | Villanova 18, Rutgers 13 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 6, 1923 | Rutgers 44, Villanova 0 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 7, 1916 | Rutgers 33, Villanova 0 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 13, 1906 | Villanova 17, Rutgers 0 | at Villanova |
Every game is listed as played on the field.