Missouri vs. Wisconsin

Missouri and Wisconsin have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1942; Wisconsin leads the series 4–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Wisconsin 4–⁠1, and Wisconsin has won the last 2.

Missouri wins
1
Wisconsin wins
4
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1942
Longest streak
2 Wisconsin
Current streak
2 Wisconsin
Last 10 meetings
Wisconsin 4–⁠1
Most recent
1984

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s0–⁠1
1970s1–⁠1
1980s0–⁠2
Average margin
11 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Missouri
1–⁠1 Missouri’s record at home
At Wisconsin
3–⁠0 Wisconsin’s record at home

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Missouri’s biggest win1975: Missouri 27, Wisconsin 21by 6 points
  2. Wisconsin’s biggest win1974: Wisconsin 59, Missouri 20by 39 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Missouri and Wisconsin, 1942 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.

From the newspapers

  • The Detroit evening times's story of the 1942 game: Badgers Defeat Missouri, 17-9

    1942 · Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, Oct 11, 1942

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

Sep 15, 1984Wisconsin 35, Missouri 34at Missouri
Sep 17, 1983Wisconsin 21, Missouri 20at Wisconsin
Sep 27, 19755Missouri 27, Wisconsin 21at Missouri
Oct 5, 1974Wisconsin 59, Missouri 20at Wisconsin
Oct 10, 1942Wisconsin 17, Missouri 9at Wisconsin

Every game is listed as played on the field.