Complete List of Playoff Rematches

[kardplayer]

I know there was another thread on this, but since that list was very incomplete, I figured I'd start a new one...

3 hours later and hundreds of clicks through the individiual team pages in the College Football Data Warehouse (http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com), here it is, a complete list of all the playoff rematches that occcurred from 1978 through 2005.

There have been 37 rematches. The team that won in the regular season is 15-21. There was also one tie.

Games in italics are the ones where the losing regular season team won in the playoffs.

[kardplayer]

1982
First Round (11/27):
Idaho 21, Montana 7 (Moscow, Id. 8,000)
Colgate 21, BostonU. 7 (Hamilton, N.Y. 5,000)


1983
First Round (11/27):
Indiana St. 16, Eastern Ill. 13 (2 ot) (Terre Haute, Ind. 6,222)
Nevada 27, Idaho St. 20 (Pocatello, Id. 10,333)
Quarterfinals (12/3):
Southern Ill. 23, Indiana St. 7 (Carbondale, Ill. 8,000)
Semifinals (12/10):
Western Caro. 14, Furman 7 (Greenville, S.C. 13,034) - teams tied in regular season


1984
First Round (11/24):
Middle Tenn. 27, Eastern Ky. 10 (Richmond, Ky. 4,800)
Arkansas St. 37, Chattanooga 10 (Jonesboro, Ark. 10,872)


1985
First Round (11/30):
Eastern Wash. 42, Idaho 38 (Moscow, Id. 6,500)
Quarterfinals (12/7):
Ga. Southern 28, Middle Tenn. 21 (Murfreesboro, Tenn. 9,500)


1986
First Round (11/29):
Nevada 27, Idaho 7 (Reno, Nev. 13,715)
Tennessee St. 32, Jackson St. 23 (Jackson, Miss. 24,000)
Delaware 51, William & Mary 17 (Williamsburg, Va. 6,340)


1987
First Round (11/28):
Weber St. 59, Idaho 30 (Moscow, Id. 4,900)
La.-Monroe 30, North Texas 9 (Monroe, La. 9,500)
Eastern Ky. 40, Western Ky. 17 (Richmond, Ky. 4,050)
Semifinals (12/12):
Marshall 24, Appalachian St. 10 (Boone, N.C. 10,000)

[kardplayer]

1988
First Round (11/26):
Idaho 38, Montana 19 (Moscow, Id. 5,500)
Quarterfinals (12/3):
Furman 13, Marshall 9 (Huntington, W.Va. 16,820)
Eastern Ky. 41, Western Ky. 24 (Richmnond, Ky. 8,100)

1989
Quarterfinals (12/2):
Ga. Southern 45, Middle Tenn. 3 (Statesboro, Ga. 11,272

1990
Semifinals (12/8):
Nevada 59, Boise St. 52 (3 ot) (Reno, Nev. 19,776)
Ga. Southern 44, UCF 7 (Statesboro, Ga. 13,183)

1991
Quarterfinals (12/7):
Eastern Ky. 23, Middle Tenn. 13 (Richmond, Ky. 3,650)

1992
Quarterfinals (12/5):
UNI 29, McNeese St. 7 (Cedar Falls, Ia. 13,375)

1994
Quarterfinals (12/3):
Youngstown St. 18, Eastern Ky. 15 (Youngstown, Ohio 16,023)

1996
Quarterfinals (12/7):
Marshall 54, Furman 0 (Huntington, W.Va. 14,096)

1997
First Round (11/29):
WesternKy. 42, Eastern Ky. 14 (Bowling Green, Ky. 9,000)

[kardplayer]

2000
First Round (11/25):
Appalachian St. 33, Troy 30 (Troy, Ala. 17,589)

2001
Quarterfinals (12/8):
Ga. Southern 38, Appalachian St. 24 (Statesboro, Ga. 9,352)
Semifinals (12/15):
Furman 24, Ga. Southern 17 (Statesboro, Ga. 11,827)

2002
Quarterfinals (12/7):
WesternKy. 31, Western Ill. 28 (Macomb, Ill. 3,285)
Championship (12/20):
WesternKy. 34, McNeese St. 14 (Chattanooga, Tenn. 12,360)

2004
Quarterfinals (12/4):
William & Mary 44, Delaware 38 (2 ot) (Williamsburg, Va. 8,715)
Semifinals (12/10):
James Madison 48, William & Mary 34 (Williamsburg, Va. 11,291)
Semifinals (12/11):
Montana 34, Sam Houston St. 13 (Missoula, Mont. 22,583)

2005
First Round (11/26):
Cal Poly 35, Montana 21 (Missoula, Mont. 16,162)
Semifinals (12/10):
Appalachian State 29, Furman 23 (Boone, N.C. 15,107)

[kardplayer]

There were also 2 games where neither team's schedule was available in the data warehouse:

1981
SC State 26, Tenn State 25 (OT)

1986
Tenn St 32, Jackson St 23

If anyone knows whether these were rematches or not, I'd love to know...

[*****]

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

[JohnStOnge]

That's good stuff. The edge for the regular season loser isn't as large as I thought it was. May have to revise some of my second round predictions!

[JohnStOnge]

There were also 2 games where neither team's schedule was available in the data warehouse:

1981
SC State 26, Tenn State 25 (OT)

1986
Tenn St 32, Jackson St 23

If anyone knows whether these were rematches or not, I'd love to know...

It looks like Tennessee State/Jackson State 1986 was a rematch with Tennessee State winning both times while South Carolina State/Tennessee State was not a rematch.

Right now my "paste" function isn't working on this computer so I can't give you a direct link without typiing a bunch but you can go to www.michigan-football.com, scroll down until you see a link to all time I-AA records, and go from there.

[JohnStOnge]

Oh...just noticed this: In 1992 Northern Iowa won both games against McNeese.

[kardplayer]

Thanks for the catch of the error and the additional research. Reviewing the scores in the database confused me a bit (especially at the late hour I was doing it), but now that I realize there was a W/L column it made it a lot easier.

I went back through and caught one more mistake, plus updated for the 2 games John tracked down.

The revised stat is that the regular season winner is 18-19 in the rematch.

[FCS_pwns_FBS]

Nice work...you must have been working all afternoon and evening on this.

One interesting thing to note - the record has been pretty lopsided in favor of the regular season loser since the beggining of this decade. Before that, it was just the opposite. I guess this is just more evidence of the increasing amount of parity in the CS. In other words, there is a greater chance that the RS win had more to do with one team being better than the other team rather than decisions by coaching and the level of focus of the players.

[89Hen]

The revised stat is that the regular season winner is 18-19 in the rematch.
I'm vindicated. I said the "beating the same team twice is hard" is bull****. :hurray: :hurray: Thank you kardplayer. :bow: