Syracuse vs. West Virginia

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

1. Syracuse’s biggest win1960: Syracuse 45, West Virginia 0by 45 points
2. West Virginia’s biggest win1993: West Virginia 43, Syracuse 0by 43 points
3. Upset2010: Syracuse 19, West Virginia 14Syracuse had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1962: West Virginia 17, Syracuse 6West Virginia had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1955: Syracuse 20, West Virginia 13Syracuse had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown1988: West Virginia 31, Syracuse 9No. 14 Syracuse at No. 4 West Virginia
7. Ranked showdown2018: Syracuse 34, West Virginia 18No. 15 West Virginia at No. 17 Syracuse
8. Ranked showdown1992: Syracuse 20, West Virginia 17No. 14 Syracuse at No. 24 West Virginia

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Syracuse’s side (Schwartzwalder 4–⁠1 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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

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  1946 · The Republican. (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, Maryland, Oct 31, 1946

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  1959 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 27, 1959

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  1962 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 25, 1962

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.

• Syracuse vs. Pittsburgh82 meetings, Syracuse 33–⁠46–⁠3
• Syracuse vs. Penn State71 meetings, Syracuse 23–⁠43–⁠5
• Syracuse vs. Colgate61 meetings, Syracuse 32–⁠25–⁠4
• Syracuse vs. Boston College59 meetings, Syracuse 34–⁠25
• West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh101 meetings, West Virginia 37–⁠61–⁠3
• West Virginia vs. Penn State61 meetings, West Virginia 9–⁠50–⁠2
• West Virginia vs. Virginia Tech54 meetings, West Virginia 30–⁠23–⁠1
• West Virginia vs. Maryland53 meetings, West Virginia 28–⁠23–⁠2