Michigan vs. Vanderbilt

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.

Michigan wins
10
Vanderbilt wins
0
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1905
Longest streak
7 Michigan
Current streak
3 Michigan
Last 10 meetings
Michigan 9–⁠0
Most recent
2006

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s4–⁠0
1910s3–⁠0
1920s1–⁠0–⁠1
1960s1–⁠0
2000s1–⁠0
Average margin
13.9 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Michigan
8–⁠0 Michigan’s record at home
At Vanderbilt
0–⁠2–⁠1 Vanderbilt’s record at home
Shutouts
3

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Michigan’s biggest win1913: Michigan 33, Vanderbilt 2by 31 points
  2. Upset1913: Michigan 33, Vanderbilt 2Michigan had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsMichiganSeriesVanderbilt
1905–⁠1923Fielding Yost8–⁠0–⁠1Dan McGugin

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

End-of-season Elo ratings of Michigan and Vanderbilt, 1905 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

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 1905 game: SHORT AND STEADY GAINS. Michigan Defeats Vanderbilt Uni yersity

    1905 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 15, 1905

  • The The Minneapolis journal's story of the 1906 game: MICHIGAN ] | c AN KNOWS ! THERE WAS 1 FIGHT Saucy Southerners Make 4 While Ann Arbor Works Like ..., Blazes for 10.

    1906 · The Minneapolis journal, Minneapolis, Minn., Nov 4, 1906

  • The The Washington herald's story of the 1907 game: PENN MUST WAKE up No Hope to Beat Michigan With Old Football. VANDERBILT GAME FARCICAL When HOst Learned of Presence of Quaker scouts He Refused to show HIS Plays and Depended Upon Place Kicks TO win-Penn Has Hard Battle Ahead with State.

    1907 · The Washington herald, District of Columbia, Nov 8, 1907

  • The The Montgomery advertiser's story of the 1908 game: . CRUSHING DEFEAT VANDERBILT LOSES TO UNTVER- sTTY OF MICHIGAN. Heavy Michigan Line and the Rapid Attacks of the Backs Was Too Much for Melville Eleven.

    1908 · The Montgomery advertiser, Nov 1, 1908

  • The Omaha daily bee's story of the 1911 game: MICHIGAN'S VICTORY HOLLOW Vanderbilt Holds Big School to Nine to Eight Score. NEITHER SCORE IN FIRST HALF Yost's Men Fight rs often 60 Defend Their own Goal LIue AZ Co Batter VanderbiIts De- fenSc.

    1911 · Omaha daily bee, Oct 29, 1911

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.

Photos

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).

Every game

Sep 2, 200614Michigan 27, Vanderbilt 7at Michigan
Sep 20, 1969Michigan 42, Vanderbilt 14at Michigan
Oct 13, 1923Michigan 3, Vanderbilt 0at Michigan
Oct 14, 1922Vanderbilt 0, Michigan 0at Vanderbilt
Oct 10, 1914Michigan 23, Vanderbilt 3at Michigan
Oct 25, 1913Michigan 33, Vanderbilt 2at Vanderbilt
Oct 28, 1911Michigan 9, Vanderbilt 8at Michigan
Oct 31, 1908Michigan 24, Vanderbilt 6at Michigan
Nov 2, 1907Michigan 8, Vanderbilt 0at Vanderbilt
Nov 3, 1906Michigan 10, Vanderbilt 4at Michigan
Oct 14, 1905Michigan 18, Vanderbilt 0at Michigan

Every game is listed as played on the field.