South Carolina vs. West Virginia

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

1. South Carolina’s biggest win1951: South Carolina 34, West Virginia 13by 21 points
2. West Virginia’s biggest win1989: West Virginia 45, South Carolina 21by 24 points
3. Upset1953: South Carolina 20, West Virginia 14South Carolina had a 31% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from South Carolina’s side (Enright 2–⁠2 against Lewis). 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.

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

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  1939 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 28, 1939

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  1942 · The Daily Alaska empire, Oct 12, 1942

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  1948 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 31, 1948

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  1951 · Evening star, Nov 11, 1951

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  1952 · Evening star, Nov 23, 1952

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.

• South Carolina vs. Clemson117 meetings, South Carolina 43–⁠70–⁠4
• South Carolina vs. Georgia73 meetings, South Carolina 19–⁠52–⁠2
• South Carolina vs. North Carolina60 meetings, South Carolina 20–⁠36–⁠4
• South Carolina vs. Wake Forest56 meetings, South Carolina 34–⁠20–⁠2
• 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