Columbia vs. Michigan

Columbia and Michigan have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1935; Michigan leads the series 3–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Michigan 3–⁠0, and Michigan has won the last 3.

Columbia wins
0
Michigan wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1935
Longest streak
3 Michigan
Current streak
3 Michigan
Last 10 meetings
Michigan 3–⁠0
Most recent
1941

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠2
1940s0–⁠1
Average margin
17.7 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Columbia
0–⁠2 Columbia’s record at home
At Michigan
1–⁠0 Michigan’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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 Columbia and Michigan, 1935 on130015001700190019401960198020002020

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 Evening star's story of the 1941 game: Wolverines Turn On Power 10 Trounce Columbia, $50 Kuzmo's 67-Yord Run for Touchdown q Feature; 81, 900 See Come

    1941 · Evening star, Nov 15, 1941

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 15, 19417Michigan 28, Columbia 0at Columbia
Oct 24, 1936Michigan 13, Columbia 0at Michigan
Oct 26, 1935Michigan 19, Columbia 7at Columbia

Every game is listed as played on the field.