Bowling Green vs. Northern Illinois

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

1. Bowling Green’s biggest win1997: Bowling Green 35, Northern Illinois 10by 25 points
2. Northern Illinois’s biggest win2014: Northern Illinois 51, Bowling Green 17by 34 points
3. Upset1968: Northern Illinois 7, Bowling Green 6Northern Illinois had a 8% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1986: Northern Illinois 16, Bowling Green 8Northern Illinois had a 16% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2013: Bowling Green 47, Northern Illinois 27Bowling Green had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown2003: Bowling Green 34, Northern Illinois 18No. 12 Northern Illinois at No. 23 Bowling Green

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Bowling Green’s side (Stolz 2–⁠1 against Mallory). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

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).

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game once: 2003.

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA).

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Bowling Green vs. Toledo64 meetings, Bowling Green 30–⁠33–⁠1
• Bowling Green vs. Kent State63 meetings, Bowling Green 47–⁠16
• Bowling Green vs. Ohio62 meetings, Bowling Green 33–⁠28–⁠1
• Bowling Green vs. Miami (OH)60 meetings, Bowling Green 22–⁠34–⁠4
• Northern Illinois vs. Toledo53 meetings, Northern Illinois 17–⁠36
• Northern Illinois vs. Western Michigan50 meetings, Northern Illinois 23–⁠27
• Northern Illinois vs. Ball State49 meetings, Northern Illinois 24–⁠24–⁠1
• Northern Illinois vs. Central Michigan39 meetings, Northern Illinois 18–⁠21