Iowa vs. Kansas

Iowa and Kansas have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1908; Kansas leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Kansas 2–⁠1.

Iowa wins
1
Kansas wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1908
Longest streak
2 Kansas
Current streak
1 Iowa
Last 10 meetings
Kansas 2–⁠1
Most recent
1960

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠2
1960s1–⁠0
Both ranked
1 meeting: Iowa 1, Kansas 0
Average margin
10.7 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Iowa
1–⁠1 Iowa’s record at home
At Kansas
1–⁠0 Kansas’s record at home

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Iowa and Kansas, 1908 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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 The Topeka state journal's story of the 1908 game: KANSAS HARD GAME. Iowa Played Desperately But Could Not Stop Jayhawkers.

    1908 · The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, Nov 23, 1908

  • The Omaha daily bee's story of the 1909 game: WALLOPS HAWKEYES Jayhawkers Take Game With Iowa Easily, 20 to 2. MISSOURI GAME DECIDES HONOR Both Teams Play old style Foot BaI at Lawrence and Gains Made by Kansas Through the

    1909 · Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, Nov 21, 1909

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

Oct 29, 19601Iowa 21, 19Kansas 7at Iowa
Nov 20, 1909Kansas 20, Iowa 7at Kansas
Nov 21, 1908Kansas 10, Iowa 5at Iowa

Every game is listed as played on the field.