Iowa State vs. Minnesota

Iowa State and Minnesota have 26 meetings on file, the first in 1895; Minnesota leads the series 22–⁠3–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Minnesota 8–⁠1.

Iowa State wins
3
Minnesota wins
22
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1895
Longest streak
17 Minnesota
Current streak
1 Iowa State
Last 10 meetings
Minnesota 8–⁠1
Most recent
2009

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s2–⁠3
1900s0–⁠9
1910s0–⁠6
1920s0–⁠1–⁠1
1980s0–⁠1
1990s0–⁠2
2000s1–⁠0
Average margin
17 points; 10 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Iowa State
0–⁠1 Iowa State’s record at home
At Minnesota
21–⁠2–⁠1 Minnesota’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0 Iowa State first
Shutouts
15

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Iowa State’s biggest win1898: Iowa State 6, Minnesota 0by 6 points
  2. Minnesota’s biggest win1910: Minnesota 49, Iowa State 0by 49 points
  3. Upset1897: Iowa State 12, Minnesota 10Iowa State had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsIowa StateSeriesMinnesota
1902–⁠1906A.W. Ristine0–⁠5Henry Williams
1907–⁠1912Clyde Williams0–⁠6Henry Williams

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Iowa State’s side (Ristine 0–⁠5 against Williams). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Iowa State and Minnesota, 1895 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

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.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

Alexander Robinson2009
Christopher Lyle2009

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening times-Republican's story of the 1903 game: CONFIDENT OF VICTORY. Prospects Good for Iowa State Colleges Defeat of Minnesota.

    1903 · Evening times-Republican, Marshalltown, Iowa, Oct 15, 1903

  • The Evening star's story of the 1912 game: CLOSE GRIDIRON BATTLE. Minnesota Had to Hustle to Beat Iowa Aggies, 5 to 0.

    1912 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 6, 1912

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

Dec 31, 2009Iowa State 14, Minnesota 13Mountain America StadiumInsight Bowl
Sep 13, 1997Minnesota 53, Iowa State 29at Minnesota
Sep 15, 1990Minnesota 20, Iowa State 16at Minnesota
Sep 16, 1989Minnesota 30, Iowa State 20at Iowa State
Nov 8, 1924Minnesota 7, Iowa State 7at Minnesota
Oct 6, 1923Minnesota 20, Iowa State 17at Minnesota
Oct 9, 1915Minnesota 34, Iowa State 6at Minnesota
Oct 10, 1914Minnesota 26, Iowa State 0at Minnesota
Oct 4, 1913Minnesota 25, Iowa State 0at Minnesota
Oct 5, 1912Minnesota 5, Iowa State 0at Minnesota
Sep 30, 1911Minnesota 5, Iowa State 0at Minnesota
Oct 8, 1910Minnesota 49, Iowa State 0at Minnesota
Oct 9, 1909Minnesota 18, Iowa State 0at Minnesota
Oct 10, 1908Minnesota 15, Iowa State 10at Minnesota
Oct 12, 1907Minnesota 8, Iowa State 0at Minnesota
Oct 27, 1906Minnesota 22, Iowa State 4at Minnesota
Oct 14, 1905Minnesota 42, Iowa State 0at Minnesota
Oct 15, 1904Minnesota 32, Iowa State 0at Minnesota
Oct 10, 1903Minnesota 46, Iowa State 0at Minnesota
Oct 4, 1902Minnesota 16, Iowa State 0at Minnesota
Oct 6, 1900Minnesota 27, Iowa State 0at Minnesota
Oct 21, 1899Minnesota 6, Iowa State 0at Minnesota
Oct 22, 1898Iowa State 6, Minnesota 0at Minnesota
Oct 23, 1897Iowa State 12, Minnesota 10at Minnesota
Oct 24, 1896Minnesota 18, Iowa State 6at Minnesota
Oct 19, 1895Minnesota 24, Iowa State 0at Minnesota

Every game is listed as played on the field.