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.

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

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s1–⁠0
1930s0–⁠3–⁠1
1990s0–⁠1
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

  1. Kansas’s biggest win1904: Kansas 24, Notre Dame 5by 19 points
  2. Notre Dame’s biggest win1938: Notre Dame 52, Kansas 0by 52 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Kansas and Notre Dame, 1904 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.

From the newspapers

  • The The Topeka state journal's story of the 1904 game: SPORTING NEWS. Kansas University Defeats NOtre Dame Eleven. Victory Came Easy for the JayhaWkers. FIRST HALF. NO SCORE, Long Run Gave lndianians Their Score. Other Football Scores and Notes OF Sport. FIRST HALF, NO SCORE

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

  • The Evening star's story of the 1938 game: NOTRE DAME RUNS TO $40 TRIUMPH Kansas Is Helpless Before Finest Ground Play of Recent Irish Teams.

    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, 199918Notre Dame 48, Kansas 13Neutral site
Oct 1, 1938Notre Dame 52, Kansas 0at Notre Dame
Sep 28, 1935Notre Dame 28, Kansas 7at Notre Dame
Oct 7, 1933Notre Dame 0, Kansas 0at Notre Dame
Nov 5, 1932Notre Dame 24, Kansas 6at Kansas
Nov 5, 1904Kansas 24, Notre Dame 5at Kansas

Every game is listed as played on the field.