Iowa vs. Northwestern

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

1. Iowa’s biggest win1913: Iowa 78, Northwestern 6by 72 points
2. Northwestern’s biggest win1932: Northwestern 44, Iowa 6by 38 points
3. Upset2009: Northwestern 17, Iowa 10Northwestern had a 17% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2006: Northwestern 21, Iowa 7Northwestern had a 19% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1972: Iowa 23, Northwestern 12Iowa had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown1959: Northwestern 14, Iowa 10No. 2 Northwestern at No. 5 Iowa
7. Ranked showdown1960: Iowa 42, Northwestern 0No. 8 Iowa at No. 6 Northwestern
8. Ranked showdown1958: Iowa 26, Northwestern 20No. 8 Northwestern at No. 7 Iowa

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Iowa’s side (Jones 1–⁠2 against Murphy). 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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  1900 · Evening times-Republican, Marshalltown, Iowa, Nov 30, 1900

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  1911 · Omaha daily bee, Omaha [Neb.], Nov 26, 1911

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  1913 · The daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Oct 26, 1913

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  1914 · Omaha daily bee, Omaha [Neb.], Nov 8, 1914

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.

• Iowa vs. Minnesota118 meetings, Iowa 54–⁠62–⁠2
• Iowa vs. Wisconsin99 meetings, Iowa 48–⁠49–⁠2
• Iowa vs. Purdue94 meetings, Iowa 41–⁠50–⁠3
• Iowa vs. Indiana79 meetings, Iowa 46–⁠29–⁠4
• Northwestern vs. Illinois119 meetings, Northwestern 55–⁠59–⁠5
• Northwestern vs. Wisconsin103 meetings, Northwestern 37–⁠62–⁠4
• Northwestern vs. Minnesota99 meetings, Northwestern 38–⁠56–⁠5
• Northwestern vs. Purdue90 meetings, Northwestern 36–⁠53–⁠1