Illinois vs. Missouri

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

1. Illinois’s biggest win1994: Illinois 42, Missouri 0by 42 points
2. Missouri’s biggest win1980: Missouri 52, Illinois 7by 45 points
3. Upset2002: Missouri 33, Illinois 20Missouri had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1976: Illinois 31, Missouri 6Illinois had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Ranked showdown2008: Missouri 52, Illinois 42No. 20 Illinois at No. 6 Missouri

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

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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  1896 · The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, Oct 19, 1896

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  1913 · The Cairo bulletin, Illinois, Oct 12, 1913

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  1949 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 16, 1949

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
• Missouri vs. Kansas112 meetings, Missouri 56–⁠48–⁠8
• Missouri vs. Iowa State103 meetings, Missouri 61–⁠33–⁠9
• Missouri vs. Kansas State99 meetings, Missouri 60–⁠34–⁠5
• Missouri vs. Oklahoma98 meetings, Missouri 25–⁠68–⁠5