Case vs. Ohio State

Case and Ohio State first met in 1904 and have played 7 times; Ohio State leads the series 7–⁠0. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Ohio State 7–⁠0, and Ohio State has won the last 7.

Case wins
0
Ohio State wins
7
Ties
0
First meeting
1904
Longest streak
7 Ohio State
Current streak
7 Ohio State
Last 10 meetings
Ohio State 7–⁠0
Most recent
1918

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠1
1910s0–⁠6
Average margin
25.1 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Case
0–⁠2 Case’s record at home
At Ohio State
5–⁠0 Ohio State’s record at home
Shutouts
5

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Ohio State’s biggest win1918: Ohio State 56, Case 0by 56 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Case and Ohio State, 1904 on13001500170019051910191519201925193019351940

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

  • The Arizona republican's story of the 1917 game: KING FOOTBALL

    1917 · Arizona republican, Sep 30, 1917

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 9, 1918Ohio State 56, Case 0at Ohio State
Sep 29, 1917Ohio State 49, Case 0at Ohio State
Nov 18, 1916Ohio State 28, Case 0at Case
Oct 9, 1915Ohio State 14, Case 0at Ohio State
Oct 10, 1914Ohio State 7, Case 6at Case
Nov 15, 1913Ohio State 18, Case 0at Ohio State
Oct 22, 1904Ohio State 16, Case 6at Ohio State

Every game is listed as played on the field.