Bowling Green vs. Memphis

Bowling Green and Memphis have 3 meetings on file, the first in 2004; Memphis leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Memphis 2–⁠1, and Memphis has won the last 2.

Bowling Green wins
1
Memphis wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
2004
Longest streak
2 Memphis
Current streak
2 Memphis
Last 10 meetings
Memphis 2–⁠1
Most recent
2016

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
2000s1–⁠0
2010s0–⁠2
Average margin
31.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Bowling Green
0–⁠1 Bowling Green’s record at home
At Memphis
1–⁠0 Memphis’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0 Bowling Green first

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Bowling Green and Memphis, 2004 on13001500170020052010201520202025

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

Matt Johnson Bowling Green28 of 44, 443 yards, 4 TD2015 Passing
Omar Jacobs Bowling Green26 of 44, 365 yards, 5 TD, 1 INT2004 Passing
Roger Lewis Bowling Green7 catches, 261 yards, 3 TD2015 Receiving

Named most valuable

Bowling Green QB Omar Jacobs2004

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

Every game

Sep 24, 2016Memphis 77, Bowling Green 3at Memphis
Sep 19, 2015Memphis 44, Bowling Green 41at Bowling Green
Dec 22, 2004Bowling Green 52, Memphis 35Simmons Bank Liberty StadiumGMAC Bowl

Every game is listed as played on the field.