Missouri vs. Navy

Missouri and Navy have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1948; Missouri leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Missouri 2–⁠1.

Missouri wins
2
Navy wins
1
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1948
Longest streak
2 Missouri
Current streak
1 Navy
Last 10 meetings
Missouri 2–⁠1
Most recent
2009

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s1–⁠0
1960s1–⁠0
2000s0–⁠1
Both ranked
1 meeting: Missouri 1, Navy 0; 1 both in the top 10
Average margin
16.7 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Navy
0–⁠1 Navy’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠1 Missouri first

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Missouri and Navy, 1948 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Ricky Dobbs Navy30 carries, 166 yards, 3 TD2009 Rushing

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1960 game: Tigers Cage Be|Iino, but LoRose Labels Him Genuine AII-Americo

    1960 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Jan 3, 1961

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

Dec 31, 2009Navy 35, Missouri 13Neutral siteTexas Bowl
Jan 2, 19615Missouri 21, 7Navy 14Neutral siteOrange Bowl
Oct 16, 194812Missouri 35, Navy 14at Navy

Every game is listed as played on the field.