Kansas vs. Michigan

Kansas and Michigan have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1893; Michigan leads the series 3–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Michigan 3–⁠0, and Michigan has won the last 3.

Kansas wins
0
Michigan wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1893
Longest streak
3 Michigan
Current streak
3 Michigan
Last 10 meetings
Michigan 3–⁠0
Most recent
1979

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s0–⁠2
1970s0–⁠1
Average margin
17.7 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Kansas
0–⁠2 Kansas’s record at home
At Michigan
1–⁠0 Michigan’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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 Kansas and Michigan, 1893 on13001500170019001900192019401960198020002020

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 Coconino weekly sun's story of the 1893 game: ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

    1893 · The Coconino weekly sun, Arizona, Nov 30, 1893

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

Sep 22, 197911Michigan 28, Kansas 7at Michigan
Nov 10, 1894Michigan 22, Kansas 12at Kansas
Nov 25, 1893Michigan 22, Kansas 0at Kansas

Every game is listed as played on the field.