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. Share
- 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
- 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
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

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

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, 1960 | 1Iowa 21, 19Kansas 7 | at Iowa | ||
| Nov 20, 1909 | Kansas 20, Iowa 7 | at Kansas | ||
| Nov 21, 1908 | Kansas 10, Iowa 5 | at Iowa |
Every game is listed as played on the field.