Chicago vs. Vanderbilt
Chicago and Vanderbilt first met in 1917 and have played 3 times; Vanderbilt leads the series 2–1. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Vanderbilt 2–1, and Vanderbilt has won the last 2. Share
- Chicago wins
- 1
- Vanderbilt wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1917
- Longest streak
- 2 Vanderbilt
- Current streak
- 2 Vanderbilt
- Last 10 meetings
- Vanderbilt 2–1
- Most recent
- 1937
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 34.3 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Chicago
- 1–1 Chicago’s record at home
- At Vanderbilt
- 1–0 Vanderbilt’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 3
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Both programs through the years
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

1917 · Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, Virginia, Oct 14, 1917

1936 · The Nome daily nugget, Oct 5, 1936
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
| Oct 2, 1937 | Vanderbilt 18, Chicago 0 | at Vanderbilt | ||
| Oct 3, 1936 | Vanderbilt 37, Chicago 0 | at Chicago | ||
| Oct 13, 1917 | Chicago 48, Vanderbilt 0 | at Chicago |
Every game is listed as played on the field.