Bowdoin vs. Maine
Bowdoin and Maine first met in 1896 and have played 7 times; Bowdoin leads the series 5–2. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Bowdoin 5–2. Share
- Bowdoin wins
- 5
- Maine wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1896
- Longest streak
- 4 Bowdoin
- Current streak
- 1 Maine
- Last 10 meetings
- Bowdoin 5–2
- Most recent
- 1905
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 19.7 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Bowdoin
- 5–0 Bowdoin’s record at home
- At Maine
- 2–0 Maine’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 4
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Bowdoin’s biggest win1900: Bowdoin 38, Maine 0by 38 points
- Maine’s biggest win1905: Maine 18, Bowdoin 0by 18 points
- Upset1901: Maine 22, Bowdoin 5Maine had a 28% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
Both programs through the years
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

1905 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Nov 20, 1905
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
| Nov 18, 1905 | Maine 18, Bowdoin 0 | at Maine | ||
| Nov 5, 1904 | Bowdoin 22, Maine 5 | at Bowdoin | ||
| Nov 23, 1901 | Maine 22, Bowdoin 5 | at Maine | ||
| Nov 24, 1900 | Bowdoin 38, Maine 0 | at Bowdoin | ||
| Sep 30, 1899 | Bowdoin 14, Maine 0 | at Bowdoin | ||
| Sep 24, 1898 | Bowdoin 28, Maine 0 | at Bowdoin | ||
| Nov 14, 1896 | Bowdoin 12, Maine 6 | at Bowdoin |
Every game is listed as played on the field.