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Missouri vs. Ohio State

Missouri and Ohio State have 13 meetings on file, the first in 1939; Ohio State leads the series 10–⁠2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Ohio State 7–⁠2.

Missouri wins
2
Ohio State wins
10
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1939
Longest streak
5 Ohio State
Current streak
1 Missouri
Last 10 meetings
Ohio State 7–⁠2
Most recent
2023

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠1
1940s0–⁠7–⁠1
1970s1–⁠0
1990s0–⁠2
2020s1–⁠0
Both ranked
2 meetings: Missouri 1, Ohio State 1; 1 both in the top 10
Average margin
16.5 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Missouri
0–⁠2 Missouri’s record at home
At Ohio State
8–⁠1–⁠1 Ohio State’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0 Missouri first
Shutouts
2

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Missouri’s biggest win2023: Missouri 14, Ohio State 3by 11 points
  2. Ohio State’s biggest win1944: Ohio State 54, Missouri 0by 54 points
  3. Upset1976: Missouri 22, Ohio State 21Missouri had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset2023: Missouri 14, Ohio State 3Missouri had a 31% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  5. Ranked showdown2023: Missouri 14, Ohio State 3No. 9 Missouri at No. 7 Ohio State
  6. Ranked showdown1998: Ohio State 35, Missouri 14No. 21 Missouri at No. 1 Ohio State

Coach against coach

YearsMissouriSeriesOhio State
1947–⁠1949Don Faurot0–⁠3Wesley Fesler

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Missouri’s side (Faurot 0–⁠3 against Fesler). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Missouri and Ohio State, 1939 on1300150017001900194019501960197019801990200020102020

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

Named most valuable

Brady Cook Missouri2023
Johnny Walker Jr. Missouri2023

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1939 game: Ohio State Displays Real Power, Trims Missouri, 1910

    1939 · Evening star, Oct 8, 1939

  • The Evening star's story of the 1943 game: Parks, Be|ittIed, Ohio State Ace In 27-6 Win From Missouri

    1943 · Evening star, Oct 3, 1943

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1945 game: 1945 GRlDIR0N IRRESISTABLE5 BEGIN 10 ROLL JuQqernduts Uncovered in First Big Weekend of PoWerhouse Clashes

    1945 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 1, 1945

  • The Evening star's story of the 1947 game: 6. w. Finally Breaks q Jinx Co|Ieqe Football Results

    1947 · Evening star, Sep 28, 1947

  • The Evening star's story of the 1948 game: Ohio State S Power Beats Missouri, III

    1948 · Evening star, Sep 26, 1948

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, 20239Missouri 14, 7Ohio State 3AT&T StadiumCotton Bowl
Sep 19, 19981Ohio State 35, 21Missouri 14at Ohio State
Sep 27, 19977Ohio State 31, Missouri 10at Missouri
Sep 25, 1976Missouri 22, 2Ohio State 21at Ohio State
Sep 24, 1949Ohio State 35, Missouri 34at Ohio State
Sep 25, 1948Ohio State 21, Missouri 7at Ohio State
Sep 27, 1947Ohio State 13, Missouri 7at Ohio State
Sep 28, 1946Ohio State 13, Missouri 13at Ohio State
Sep 29, 1945Ohio State 47, Missouri 6at Missouri
Sep 30, 1944Ohio State 54, Missouri 0at Ohio State
Oct 2, 1943Ohio State 27, Missouri 6at Ohio State
Sep 27, 1941Ohio State 12, Missouri 7at Ohio State
Oct 7, 1939Ohio State 19, Missouri 0at Ohio State

Every game is listed as played on the field.