Kansas vs. Wisconsin
Kansas and Wisconsin have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1901; Wisconsin leads the series 4–2 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Wisconsin 4–2, and Kansas has won the last 2. Share
- Kansas wins
- 2
- Wisconsin wins
- 4
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1901
- Longest streak
- 4 Wisconsin
- Current streak
- 2 Kansas
- Last 10 meetings
- Wisconsin 4–2
- Most recent
- 1976
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 27.5 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Kansas
- 1–1 Kansas’s record at home
- At Wisconsin
- 3–1 Wisconsin’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 3
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Kansas’s biggest win1975: Kansas 41, Wisconsin 7by 34 points
- Wisconsin’s biggest win1901: Wisconsin 50, Kansas 0by 50 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

1901 · Wheeling Sunday register, Wheeling, W. Va., Oct 27, 1901

1927 · The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, Oct 10, 1927
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
| Oct 2, 1976 | 9Kansas 34, Wisconsin 24 | at Kansas | ||
| Oct 4, 1975 | Kansas 41, Wisconsin 7 | at Wisconsin | ||
| Oct 8, 1927 | Wisconsin 26, Kansas 6 | at Kansas | ||
| Oct 9, 1926 | Wisconsin 13, Kansas 0 | at Wisconsin | ||
| Oct 25, 1902 | Wisconsin 38, Kansas 0 | at Wisconsin | ||
| Oct 26, 1901 | Wisconsin 50, Kansas 0 | at Wisconsin |
Every game is listed as played on the field.