Bowling Green vs. Northwestern

Bowling Green and Northwestern have 3 meetings on file, the first in 2001; Bowling Green leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Bowling Green 2–⁠1.

Bowling Green wins
2
Northwestern wins
1
Ties
0
Earliest on file
2001
Longest streak
2 Bowling Green
Current streak
1 Northwestern
Last 10 meetings
Bowling Green 2–⁠1
Most recent
2017

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
2000s2–⁠0
2010s0–⁠1
Average margin
15.7 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Northwestern
1–⁠1 Northwestern’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 Northwestern, 2001 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

Named most valuable

Josh Harris2003
Jason Wright2003

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

Every game

Sep 16, 2017Northwestern 49, Bowling Green 7at Northwestern
Dec 26, 200320Bowling Green 28, Northwestern 24War Memorial StadiumMotor City Bowl
Nov 17, 2001Bowling Green 43, Northwestern 42at Northwestern

Every game is listed as played on the field.