Tennessee vs. Tusculum

Tennessee and Tusculum have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1915; Tennessee leads the series 3–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Tennessee 3–⁠0, and Tennessee has won the last 3.

Tennessee wins
3
Tusculum wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1915
Longest streak
3 Tennessee
Current streak
3 Tennessee
Last 10 meetings
Tennessee 3–⁠0
Most recent
1919

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s3–⁠0
Average margin
25.7 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Tennessee
3–⁠0 Tennessee’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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 Tennessee and Tusculum, 1915 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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 Carolina watchman's story of the 1916 game: MODERN SCHOOL and COLLEGE WORK. Not Much Mention Of Books, Classes, Etc. But PUPILS Seem Quite Busy Nevertheless.

    1916 · Carolina watchman, Salisbury, N.C., Oct 4, 1916

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 27, 1919Tennessee 29, Tusculum 6at Tennessee
Sep 30, 1916Tennessee 33, Tusculum 0at Tennessee
Oct 2, 1915Tennessee 21, Tusculum 0at Tennessee

Every game is listed as played on the field.