Michigan and Vanderbilt have 11 meetings on file, the first in 1905; Michigan leads the series 10–0–1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Michigan 9–0, and Michigan has won the last 3. Share
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Michigan’s side (Yost 8–0–1 against McGugin). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
Both programs through the years
Michigan VanderbiltTicks 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.
From the newspapers
1905 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 15, 1905
1906 · The Minneapolis journal, Minneapolis, Minn., Nov 4, 1906
1907 · The Washington herald, District of Columbia, Nov 8, 1907
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.