Tulane vs. Virginia Tech

Tulane and Virginia Tech have 10 meetings on file, the first in 1956; Virginia Tech leads the series 6–⁠4 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Virginia Tech 6–⁠4, and Virginia Tech has won the last 2.

Tulane wins
4
Virginia Tech wins
6
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1956
Longest streak
2 Virginia Tech
Current streak
2 Virginia Tech
Last 10 meetings
Virginia Tech 6–⁠4
Most recent
2023

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s1–⁠1
1960s2–⁠1
1980s1–⁠3
2020s0–⁠1
Average margin
11.6 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Tulane
4–⁠3 Tulane’s record at home
At Virginia Tech
2–⁠0 Virginia Tech’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠1 Tulane first
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 win1987: Tulane 57, Virginia Tech 38by 19 points
  2. Virginia Tech’s biggest win2023: Virginia Tech 41, Tulane 20by 21 points
  3. Upset2023: Virginia Tech 41, Tulane 20Virginia Tech had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Tulane and Virginia Tech, 1956 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

Kyron Drones Virginia Tech2023

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1956 game: Tulane Erratic, But Snuffs Out

    1956 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 23, 1956

  • The Evening star's story of the 1962 game

    1962 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 8, 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

Dec 27, 2023Virginia Tech 41, 23Tulane 20Navy–Marine Corps Memorial StadiumMilitary Bowl
Oct 28, 1989Virginia Tech 30, Tulane 13at Virginia Tech
Oct 24, 1987Tulane 57, Virginia Tech 38at Tulane
Nov 3, 1984Virginia Tech 13, Tulane 6at Virginia Tech
Nov 5, 1983Virginia Tech 26, Tulane 10at Tulane
Sep 17, 1966Tulane 13, Virginia Tech 0at Tulane
Nov 3, 1962Virginia Tech 24, Tulane 22at Tulane
Oct 14, 1961Tulane 27, Virginia Tech 14at Tulane
Sep 20, 1957Virginia Tech 14, Tulane 13at Tulane
Sep 22, 1956Tulane 21, Virginia Tech 14at Tulane

Every game is listed as played on the field.