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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/e8odie on 2023-10-19 17:03:40.

In light of Miami and Clemson playing this weekend, I saw someone post:

If you combined all the points Miami has scored against Clemson in their last 4 games and called that their score for any individual game during that span, they’d still be 0-4.

For those curious, the Hurricanes scored 10, 17, 3, and 0 which total 30 and Clemson scored 38+ in each game.

So then I wondered: what kind of series or how many ever have been able to string together 5 or more such games where this was still true?

I knew I wasn’t going to exhaustively check all the options, but I did instinctively look at a few close to home in the SEC:

  1. Georgia/Vanderbilt: since this was already recently on my mind for Vandy not having scored a touchdown against Georgia since 2018 and then scoring three this past weekend. But whether your start this year or ignore this year and start with last year, either way including a 5th game in this series allowed Vandy to finally surpass a single Georgia score.
  2. Alabama/Vanderbilt: sorry Vandy. But again, the pattern maxes out at 4 here, this time mostly thanks to a peculiar 2006 game where Bama only scored 13.
  3. LSU/Louisiana: I only looked at this one because I’m well familiar with LSU’s 22-0 record against Louisiana but this is definitionally an unfair matchup so not really the kind of thing I’m looking for. However, that said, Louisiana could combine their points scored in their last 13 games against LSU and still not surpass LSU in any one game (1 TD, 2 FGs, and the rest are shutouts). So for an absolute/objective answer, this might be it; but obviously this isn’t a real series the way something like Miami/Clemson is.

So what other series could be a contender here? Reminder: I’m giving preference to series that are (1) annual or at least regular, (2) at least somewhat modern, and (3) either in-conference or at least some reasonable definition of “same level.”