Temple vs. VMI

Temple and VMI have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1937; Temple leads the series 4–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Temple 4–⁠0, and Temple has won the last 4.

Temple wins
4
VMI wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1937
Longest streak
4 Temple
Current streak
4 Temple
Last 10 meetings
Temple 4–⁠0
Most recent
1943

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s1–⁠0
1940s3–⁠0
Average margin
13.5 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Temple
3–⁠0 Temple’s record at home
At VMI
0–⁠1 VMI’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Temple and VMI, 1937 on130015001700194019501960197019801990200020102020

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

  • The Detroit evening times's story of the 1942 game: V.M.I. Loses 10 Owls Missing Conversion

    1942 · Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, Oct 3, 1942

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 25, 1943Temple 27, VMI 0at Temple
Oct 3, 1942Temple 7, VMI 6at Temple
Oct 4, 1941Temple 28, VMI 13at Temple
Sep 25, 1937Temple 18, VMI 7at VMI

Every game is listed as played on the field.