Tennessee Tech vs. Vanderbilt

Tennessee Tech and Vanderbilt have 7 meetings on file, the first in 1939; Vanderbilt leads the series 6–⁠0–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Vanderbilt 6–⁠0, and Vanderbilt has won the last 6.

Tennessee Tech wins
0
Vanderbilt wins
6
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1939
Longest streak
6 Vanderbilt
Current streak
6 Vanderbilt
Last 10 meetings
Vanderbilt 6–⁠0
Most recent
1947

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠0–⁠1
1940s0–⁠6
Average margin
32.9 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Vanderbilt
6–⁠0–⁠1 Vanderbilt’s record at home
Shutouts
6

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Vanderbilt’s biggest win1947: Vanderbilt 68, Tennessee Tech 0by 68 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Tennessee Tech and Vanderbilt, 1939 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 The Wilmington morning star's story of the 1945 game: Vanderbilt Defeats Tennessee Tech, 1870

    1945 · The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., Sep 30, 1945

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

Nov 8, 1947Vanderbilt 68, Tennessee Tech 0at Vanderbilt
Sep 28, 1946Vanderbilt 35, Tennessee Tech 0at Vanderbilt
Sep 29, 1945Vanderbilt 12, Tennessee Tech 0at Vanderbilt
Sep 26, 1942Vanderbilt 52, Tennessee Tech 0at Vanderbilt
Oct 4, 1941Vanderbilt 42, Tennessee Tech 0at Vanderbilt
Nov 16, 1940Vanderbilt 21, Tennessee Tech 0at Vanderbilt
Sep 23, 1939Vanderbilt 13, Tennessee Tech 13at Vanderbilt

Every game is listed as played on the field.