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.

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

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠2
1920s0–⁠2
1970s2–⁠0
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

  1. Kansas’s biggest win1975: Kansas 41, Wisconsin 7by 34 points
  2. Wisconsin’s biggest win1901: Wisconsin 50, Kansas 0by 50 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Kansas and Wisconsin, 1901 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 Wheeling Sunday register's story of the 1901 game: OTHER FOOT BALL.

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

  • The The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current's story of the 1927 game: Thistlethwaite's Charges Take Aggressive in Second Quar- ter-9O-yard Run For Touch down Is Feature - Iowa Beaten by Ohio State, Ii to +

    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, 19769Kansas 34, Wisconsin 24at Kansas
Oct 4, 1975Kansas 41, Wisconsin 7at Wisconsin
Oct 8, 1927Wisconsin 26, Kansas 6at Kansas
Oct 9, 1926Wisconsin 13, Kansas 0at Wisconsin
Oct 25, 1902Wisconsin 38, Kansas 0at Wisconsin
Oct 26, 1901Wisconsin 50, Kansas 0at Wisconsin

Every game is listed as played on the field.