Miami vs. Northwestern

Miami and Northwestern have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1961; the series is tied 2–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s even at 2–⁠2.

Miami wins
2
Northwestern wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1961
Longest streak
2 Northwestern
Current streak
1 Miami
Last 10 meetings
even at 2–⁠2
Most recent
1968

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1960s2–⁠2
Average margin
13 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Miami
2–⁠1 Miami’s record at home
At Northwestern
1–⁠0 Northwestern’s record at home

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Miami and Northwestern, 1961 on130015001700197019801990200020102020

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 Evening star's story of the 1962 game

    1962 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 24, 1962

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

Sep 20, 196819Miami 28, Northwestern 7at Miami
Sep 23, 1967Northwestern 12, 8Miami 7at Northwestern
Nov 23, 1962Northwestern 29, Miami 7at Miami
Nov 24, 1961Miami 10, Northwestern 6at Miami

Every game is listed as played on the field.