Vanderbilt vs. VMI

Vanderbilt and VMI have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1939; the series is tied 2–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s even at 2–⁠2, and Vanderbilt has won the last 2.

Vanderbilt wins
2
VMI wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1939
Longest streak
2 VMI
Current streak
2 Vanderbilt
Last 10 meetings
even at 2–⁠2
Most recent
1974

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠1
1940s0–⁠1
1960s1–⁠0
1970s1–⁠0
Average margin
18 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Vanderbilt
2–⁠2 Vanderbilt’s record at home

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 Vanderbilt and VMI, 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: VMI DOWNS VANDY in FAST ARRAY

    1945 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Nov 4, 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

Sep 21, 1974Vanderbilt 45, VMI 7at Vanderbilt
Sep 21, 1968Vanderbilt 25, VMI 12at Vanderbilt
Nov 3, 1945VMI 27, Vanderbilt 13at Vanderbilt
Oct 14, 1939VMI 20, Vanderbilt 13at Vanderbilt

Every game is listed as played on the field.