Tulane vs. Virginia

Tulane and Virginia have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1949; Tulane leads the series 4–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Tulane 4–⁠2.

Tulane wins
4
Virginia wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1949
Longest streak
3 Tulane
Current streak
1 Tulane
Last 10 meetings
Tulane 4–⁠2
Most recent
1969

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s1–⁠0
1950s1–⁠0
1960s2–⁠2
Both ranked
1 meeting: Tulane 1, Virginia 0
Average margin
17.2 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Tulane
2–⁠1 Tulane’s record at home
At Virginia
1–⁠2 Virginia’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Tulane’s biggest win1969: Tulane 31, Virginia 0by 31 points
  2. Virginia’s biggest win1968: Virginia 63, Tulane 47by 16 points
  3. Ranked showdown1949: Tulane 28, Virginia 14No. 19 Tulane at No. 9 Virginia

Coach against coach

YearsTulaneSeriesVirginia
1966–⁠1969Jim Pittman2–⁠2George Blackburn

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Tulane’s side (Pittman 2–⁠2 against Blackburn). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Tulane and Virginia, 1949 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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 Evening star's story of the 1949 game: Death of HuIfbock in Crash OfCo Mourned at Virginia u. Gene Edmonds, Is, Ex-Morine, Killed As Auto Overturns

    1949 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 21, 1949

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 15, 1969Tulane 31, Virginia 0at Tulane
Nov 16, 1968Virginia 63, Tulane 47at Virginia
Nov 18, 1967Virginia 14, Tulane 10at Tulane
Oct 8, 1966Tulane 20, Virginia 6at Virginia
Nov 18, 1950Tulane 42, Virginia 18at Tulane
Nov 19, 194919Tulane 28, 9Virginia 14at Virginia

Every game is listed as played on the field.