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. Share
- 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
- 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
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

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, 1941 | 7Michigan 28, Columbia 0 | at Columbia | ||
| Oct 24, 1936 | Michigan 13, Columbia 0 | at Michigan | ||
| Oct 26, 1935 | Michigan 19, Columbia 7 | at Columbia |
Every game is listed as played on the field.