Rutgers vs. West Virginia

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

1. Rutgers’s biggest win1921: Rutgers 17, West Virginia 7by 10 points
2. West Virginia’s biggest win2001: West Virginia 80, Rutgers 7by 73 points
3. Upset1980: West Virginia 24, Rutgers 15West Virginia had a 28% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1986: West Virginia 24, Rutgers 17West Virginia had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1921: Rutgers 17, West Virginia 7Rutgers had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown2006: West Virginia 41, Rutgers 39No. 13 Rutgers at No. 15 West Virginia
7. Ranked showdown2007: West Virginia 31, Rutgers 3No. 6 West Virginia at No. 25 Rutgers

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Rutgers’s side (Sanford 0–⁠2–⁠2 against McIntire). 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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  1916 · The sun, New York, Nov 12, 1916

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  1917 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 4, 1917

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  1919 · New-York tribune, Nov 16, 1919

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  1920 · The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post, Nov 15, 1920

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  1921 · New-York tribune, Nov 20, 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 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
• West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh101 meetings, West Virginia 37–⁠61–⁠3
• West Virginia vs. Penn State61 meetings, West Virginia 9–⁠50–⁠2
• West Virginia vs. Syracuse61 meetings, West Virginia 27–⁠34
• West Virginia vs. Virginia Tech54 meetings, West Virginia 30–⁠23–⁠1