Illinois vs. Kansas

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

1. Illinois’s biggest win1916: Illinois 30, Kansas 0by 30 points
2. Kansas’s biggest win1968: Kansas 47, Illinois 7by 40 points

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1916 · Evening capital news, Boise, Idaho, Oct 8, 1916

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  1917 · Rock Island Argus, Rock Island, Ill., Oct 8, 1917

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Illinois vs. Northwestern119 meetings, Illinois 59–⁠55–⁠5
• Illinois vs. Ohio State105 meetings, Illinois 30–⁠71–⁠4
• Illinois vs. Purdue101 meetings, Illinois 47–⁠48–⁠6
• Illinois vs. Michigan98 meetings, Illinois 24–⁠72–⁠2
• Kansas vs. Kansas State124 meetings, Kansas 65–⁠54–⁠5
• Kansas vs. Oklahoma114 meetings, Kansas 28–⁠80–⁠6
• Kansas vs. Missouri112 meetings, Kansas 48–⁠56–⁠8
• Kansas vs. Nebraska109 meetings, Kansas 18–⁠88–⁠3