Kansas vs. Notre Dame
Kansas and Notre Dame have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1904; Notre Dame leads the series 4–1–1 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Notre Dame 4–1, and Notre Dame has won the last 3. Share
- Kansas wins
- 1
- Notre Dame wins
- 4
- Ties
- 1
- Earliest on file
- 1904
- Longest streak
- 3 Notre Dame
- Current streak
- 3 Notre Dame
- Last 10 meetings
- Notre Dame 4–1
- Most recent
- 1999
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 24.2 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Kansas
- 1–1 Kansas’s record at home
- At Notre Dame
- 2–0–1 Notre Dame’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 0–1 Kansas first
- Shutouts
- 1
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Kansas’s biggest win1904: Kansas 24, Notre Dame 5by 19 points
- Notre Dame’s biggest win1938: Notre Dame 52, Kansas 0by 52 points
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

1904 · The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, Nov 7, 1904

1938 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 2, 1938
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
| Aug 28, 1999 | 18Notre Dame 48, Kansas 13 | Neutral site | ||
| Oct 1, 1938 | Notre Dame 52, Kansas 0 | at Notre Dame | ||
| Sep 28, 1935 | Notre Dame 28, Kansas 7 | at Notre Dame | ||
| Oct 7, 1933 | Notre Dame 0, Kansas 0 | at Notre Dame | ||
| Nov 5, 1932 | Notre Dame 24, Kansas 6 | at Kansas | ||
| Nov 5, 1904 | Kansas 24, Notre Dame 5 | at Kansas |
Every game is listed as played on the field.