Minnesota vs. North Dakota
Minnesota and North Dakota have 20 meetings on file, the first in 1898; Minnesota leads the series 20–0 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Minnesota 10–0, and Minnesota has won the last 20. Share
2028 at Minnesota; 2030 at Minnesota. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).
- Minnesota wins
- 20
- North Dakota wins
- 0
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1898
- Longest streak
- 20 Minnesota
- Current streak
- 20 Minnesota
- Last 10 meetings
- Minnesota 10–0
- Most recent
- 1974
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1900s | 4–0 | ||||||||||
| 1910s | 5–0 | ||||||||||
| 1920s | 8–0 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 2–0 |
- Average margin
- 29.7 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Minnesota
- 20–0 Minnesota’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 14
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Minnesota’s biggest win1926: Minnesota 51, North Dakota 0by 51 points
Both programs through the years
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 · The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, Oct 8, 1905
1913 · The daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Oct 26, 1913
1916 · Omaha daily bee, Omaha [Neb.], Oct 15, 1916
1919 · Pine Bluff daily graphic, Oct 5, 1919
1920 · South Bend news-times, South Bend, Ind., Oct 3, 1920
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
Every game is listed as played on the field.