Bowling Green vs. Massachusetts

Bowling Green and Massachusetts have 5 meetings on file, the first in 2012; Bowling Green leads the series 5–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Bowling Green 5–⁠0, and Bowling Green has won the last 5.

Bowling Green wins
5
Massachusetts wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
2012
Longest streak
5 Bowling Green
Current streak
5 Bowling Green
Last 10 meetings
Bowling Green 5–⁠0
Most recent
2025

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
2010s4–⁠0
2020s1–⁠0
Average margin
21 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Bowling Green
2–⁠0 Bowling Green’s record at home
At Massachusetts
0–⁠3 Massachusetts’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Bowling Green’s biggest win2025: Bowling Green 45, Massachusetts 14by 31 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Bowling Green and Massachusetts, 2012 on130015001700201520202025

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.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Blake Frohnapfel Massachusetts36 of 61, 589 yards, 5 TD, 1 INT2014 Passing
Matt Johnson Bowling Green33 of 39, 450 yards, 5 TD, 1 INT2015 Passing
Tajae Sharpe Massachusetts13 catches, 179 yards, 2 TD2014 Receiving

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

On television

2025ESPNU0.1 million viewers

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game

Nov 28, 2026Massachusetts at Bowling Green upcomingat Bowling Green
Nov 25, 2025Bowling Green 45, Massachusetts 14at Massachusetts
Oct 10, 2015Bowling Green 62, Massachusetts 38at Bowling Green
Sep 27, 2014Bowling Green 47, Massachusetts 42at Massachusetts
Oct 5, 2013Bowling Green 28, Massachusetts 7at Bowling Green
Oct 20, 2012Bowling Green 24, Massachusetts 0at Massachusetts

Every game is listed as played on the field.