Missouri vs. Northwestern
Missouri and Northwestern have 9 meetings on file, the first in 1895; Missouri leads the series 5–4 in the games on file. Over the last 9 meetings it’s Missouri 5–4, and Missouri has won the last 2. Share
- Missouri wins
- 5
- Northwestern wins
- 4
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1895
- Longest streak
- 2 Northwestern
- Current streak
- 2 Missouri
- Last 10 meetings
- Missouri 5–4
- Most recent
- 2008
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1910s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1920s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 1–0 |
- Both ranked
- 1 meeting: Missouri 1, Northwestern 0
- Average margin
- 13.1 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Missouri
- 2–2 Missouri’s record at home
- At Northwestern
- 2–2 Northwestern’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–0 Missouri first
- Overtime
- 1 game went to overtime
- Shutouts
- 1
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in. Overtime games from the games’ Wikipedia articles.
Games that tell the story
- Missouri’s biggest win1987: Missouri 28, Northwestern 3by 25 points
- Northwestern’s biggest win1932: Northwestern 27, Missouri 0by 27 points
- Upset1985: Northwestern 27, Missouri 23Northwestern had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1963: Northwestern 23, Missouri 12Northwestern had a 35% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Ranked showdown2008: Missouri 30, Northwestern 23No. 19 Missouri at No. 24 Northwestern
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.
Stars of the series
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1895 · The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, Nov 11, 1895
1915 · Albuquerque morning journal, New Mexico, Nov 7, 1915
1927 · Evening star, Oct 30, 1927
1932 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 3, 1932
1963 · The Nome nugget, Sep 23, 1963
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
| Dec 29, 2008 | 19Missouri 30, 24Northwestern 23overtime | Alamodome | Alamo Bowl | |
| Sep 19, 1987 | Missouri 28, Northwestern 3 | at Missouri | ||
| Sep 14, 1985 | Northwestern 27, Missouri 23 | at Missouri | ||
| Sep 30, 1967 | Missouri 13, Northwestern 6 | at Northwestern | ||
| Sep 21, 1963 | 6Northwestern 23, Missouri 12 | at Missouri | ||
| Oct 1, 1932 | Northwestern 27, Missouri 0 | at Northwestern | ||
| Oct 29, 1927 | Missouri 34, Northwestern 19 | at Northwestern | ||
| Nov 6, 1915 | Northwestern 24, Missouri 6 | at Northwestern | ||
| Nov 9, 1895 | Missouri 22, Northwestern 18 | at Missouri |
Every game is listed as played on the field.