Maryland vs. Michigan State

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Maryland’s biggest win1950: Maryland 34, Michigan State 7by 27 points
2. Michigan State’s biggest win1944: Michigan State 33, Maryland 0by 33 points
3. Upset2024: Michigan State 27, Maryland 24Michigan State had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1950: Maryland 34, Michigan State 7Maryland had a 35% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1944 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Nov 13, 1944

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  1946 · Evening star, Nov 24, 1946

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  1949 · Evening star, Oct 9, 1949

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  1950 · Evening star, Oct 8, 1950

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.

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

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  The 1950 game

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited), and libraries and archives found through the Digital Public Library of America (each under its holder’s rights statement).

Every game is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.

• Maryland vs. Virginia80 meetings, Maryland 46–⁠32–⁠2
• Maryland vs. North Carolina70 meetings, Maryland 32–⁠37–⁠1
• Maryland vs. NC State70 meetings, Maryland 34–⁠32–⁠4
• Maryland vs. Clemson62 meetings, Maryland 26–⁠34–⁠2
• Michigan State vs. Michigan118 meetings, Michigan State 38–⁠75–⁠5
• Michigan State vs. Notre Dame74 meetings, Michigan State 28–⁠45–⁠1
• Michigan State vs. Indiana72 meetings, Michigan State 51–⁠19–⁠2
• Michigan State vs. Purdue69 meetings, Michigan State 38–⁠28–⁠3