Drake vs. Miami

Drake and Miami have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1937; Drake leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Drake 2–⁠1.

Drake wins
2
Miami wins
1
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1937
Longest streak
2 Drake
Current streak
1 Miami
Last 10 meetings
Drake 2–⁠1
Most recent
1939

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s2–⁠1
Average margin
15.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Drake
1–⁠0 Drake’s record at home
At Miami
1–⁠1 Miami’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Coach against coach

YearsDrakeSeriesMiami
1937–⁠1939Vee Green2–⁠1Jack Harding

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Drake’s side (Green 2–⁠1 against Harding). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Drake and Miami, 1937 on130015001700194019501960197019801990200020102020

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 1938 game: DRAKE WHIPS MIAMI 6outherners Lose, 1875, on Cold, Windswept Iowa Grid.

    1938 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 23, 1938

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 10, 1939Miami 33, Drake 6at Miami
Oct 22, 1938Drake 18, Miami 6at Drake
Nov 26, 1937Drake 7, Miami 0at Miami

Every game is listed as played on the field.