Virginia vs. West Virginia

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

1. Virginia’s biggest win1965: Virginia 41, West Virginia 0by 41 points
2. West Virginia’s biggest win1972: West Virginia 48, Virginia 10by 38 points
3. Upset1984: Virginia 27, West Virginia 7Virginia had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Virginia’s side (Murray 3–⁠0 against Rogers). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

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

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  1922 · Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, Virginia, Nov 19, 1922

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  1944 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 10, 1944

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  1946 · Evening star, Nov 24, 1946

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  1957 · The Republican. (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, Maryland, Sep 26, 1957

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Virginia vs. North Carolina120 meetings, Virginia 51–⁠65–⁠4
• Virginia vs. Virginia Tech101 meetings, Virginia 34–⁠62–⁠5
• Virginia vs. Maryland80 meetings, Virginia 32–⁠46–⁠2
• Virginia vs. VMI78 meetings, Virginia 53–⁠23–⁠2
• West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh101 meetings, West Virginia 37–⁠61–⁠3
• West Virginia vs. Penn State61 meetings, West Virginia 9–⁠50–⁠2
• West Virginia vs. Syracuse61 meetings, West Virginia 27–⁠34
• West Virginia vs. Virginia Tech54 meetings, West Virginia 30–⁠23–⁠1