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Iowa vs. Missouri

Iowa and Missouri have 9 meetings on file, the first in 1902; Missouri leads the series 5–⁠4 in the games on file. Over the last 9 meetings it’s Missouri 5–⁠4.

Iowa wins
4
Missouri wins
5
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1902
Longest streak
3 Iowa
Current streak
1 Missouri
Last 10 meetings
Missouri 5–⁠4
Most recent
2024

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s3–⁠3
1910s0–⁠1
2010s1–⁠0
2020s0–⁠1
Average margin
8.4 points; 6 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Iowa
2–⁠2 Iowa’s record at home
At Missouri
2–⁠1 Missouri’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠1 Iowa first
Shutouts
3

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Iowa’s biggest win1906: Iowa 26, Missouri 4by 22 points
  2. Missouri’s biggest win1902: Missouri 6, Iowa 0by 6 points
  3. Upset1902: Missouri 6, Iowa 0Missouri had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsIowaSeriesMissouri
1906–⁠1908Mark Catlin2–⁠1W.J. Monilaw

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Iowa’s side (Catlin 2–⁠1 against Monilaw). 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 and Missouri, 1902 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.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Marcus Coker Iowa33 carries, 219 yards, 2 TD2010 Rushing

Named most valuable

Brady Cook Missouri2024
Marcus Coker Iowa2010
Micah Hyde Iowa2010

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The The Topeka state journal's story of the 1902 game: Missouri Tigers Defeat Iowa by Score of 6 to 0. BirnAy Makes an Eighty Yard Run Down the Field. A HARD FOUGHT GAME. Kansas University Defeats Nor mails II to 5. X. e. Right Guard Out of Game With Broken Collar Bone.

    1902 · The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, Nov 21, 1902

  • The The Saint Paul globe's story of the 1903 game: Iowa "showsv Missouri.

    1903 · The Saint Paul globe, St. Paul, Minn., Nov 15, 1903

  • The Evening times-Republican's story of the 1906 game: IOWA CHAMPIONSHIP Saturdays Games Give But Int tile Line on the Relative Merits Of Teams UNIVERSITY SHOWING GOOD Missouri Had Developed a Strong Eisysn, and Varsity. Victory Was ! ctsdit A "a Kirk and Kent Did Great Work - GrinnelPs Defeat Of Drake Surprise. UNIVERSITY SHOWING GOOD IBy X. D. st

    1906 · Evening times-Republican, Marshalltown, Iowa, Oct 29, 1906

  • The The Topeka state journal's story of the 1907 game: IOWA Fl. MISSOURI 9. The Eleven From Columbia Outplayed Except at Punting.

    1907 · The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, Oct 21, 1907

  • The The Topeka state journal's story of the 1908 game: MISSOURI DEFEATS IOWA. Won From the Hawl1eyes in a 10 to 5 Battle -.

    1908 · The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, Oct 19, 1908

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 30, 202423Missouri 27, Iowa 24Nissan StadiumMusic City Bowl
Dec 28, 2010Iowa 27, 14Missouri 24Mountain America StadiumInsight Bowl
Oct 15, 1910Missouri 5, Iowa 0at Missouri
Oct 30, 1909Missouri 13, Iowa 12at Iowa
Oct 17, 1908Missouri 10, Iowa 5at Missouri
Oct 19, 1907Iowa 21, Missouri 6at Iowa
Oct 27, 1906Iowa 26, Missouri 4at Iowa
Nov 14, 1903Iowa 16, Missouri 0at Missouri
Nov 20, 1902Missouri 6, Iowa 0at Iowa

Every game is listed as played on the field.