Michigan and Stanford have 10 meetings on file, the first in 1901; Michigan leads the series 6–3–1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Michigan 6–3. Share
Michigan won Stanford won TieDeeper color: bigger margin
Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
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W–L
1900s
1–0
1940s
2–0
1950s
0–2
1970s
3–1–1
Both ranked
1 meeting: Michigan 0, Stanford 1
Average margin
22.2 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Michigan
3–1–1 Michigan’s record at home
At Stanford
1–2 Stanford’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–1 Michigan first
Shutouts
2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
The first Rose Bowl1901: Michigan 49, Stanford 0Michigan’s Point-a-Minute team beat Stanford 49–0 in Pasadena on New Year’s Day 1902; Stanford quit with eight minutes left. The next Rose Bowl wasn’t played until 1916.
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Michigan’s side (Schembechler 3–0–1 against Christiansen). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
Both programs through the years
Michigan StanfordTicks 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.
1952 · The Key West citizen. (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, Florida, Oct 6, 1952
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.
