Chicago vs. Lawrence

Chicago and Lawrence first met in 1903 and have played 8 times; Chicago leads the series 8–⁠0. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Chicago 8–⁠0, and Chicago has won the last 8.

Chicago wins
8
Lawrence wins
0
Ties
0
First meeting
1903
Longest streak
8 Chicago
Current streak
8 Chicago
Last 10 meetings
Chicago 8–⁠0
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
1900s3–⁠0
1930s1–⁠0
2020s4–⁠0
Average margin
42.3 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Chicago
6–⁠0 Chicago’s record at home
At Lawrence
0–⁠2 Lawrence’s record at home
Shutouts
6

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Chicago’s biggest win2025: Chicago 66, Lawrence 0by 66 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Chicago and Lawrence, 1903 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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 The Minneapolis journal's story of the 1903 game: lombard. LOW SCORE BY. MARooNs Exhausted Lawrence Team Holds Chicago to % Points.

    1903 · The Minneapolis journal, Minneapolis, Minn., Sep 28, 1903

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 7, 2026Chicago at Lawrence upcomingat Lawrence
Oct 11, 2025Chicago 66, Lawrence 0at Chicago
Nov 2, 2024Chicago 64, Lawrence 14at Lawrence
Oct 28, 2023Chicago 55, Lawrence 12at Chicago
Nov 5, 2022Chicago 60, Lawrence 0at Lawrence
Sep 26, 1936Chicago 34, Lawrence 0at Chicago
Sep 23, 1905Chicago 33, Lawrence 0at Chicago
Sep 24, 1904Chicago 29, Lawrence 0at Chicago
Sep 26, 1903Chicago 23, Lawrence 0at Chicago

Every game is listed as played on the field.