Michigan and Purdue have 61 meetings on file, the first in 1892; Michigan leads the series 47–14 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Michigan 8–2, and Michigan has won the last 7. Share
Scheduled2028 at Purdue. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Michigan’s side (Oosterbaan 3–0 against Holcomb). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
Both programs through the years
Michigan PurdueTicks under the axis: each meeting, in the winner’s color
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). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1897 · The Indianapolis journal, Indianapolis [Ind.], Nov 7, 1897
1929 · The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], Oct 14, 1929
1930 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 12, 1930
1944 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 31, 1944
1945 · The Ypsilanti daily press, Ypsilanti, Mich., Nov 19, 1945
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.
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