Montana vs. Whitman
Montana and Whitman first met in 1917 and have played 5 times; Montana leads the series 4–1. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Montana 4–1, and Montana has won the last 4. Share
- Montana wins
- 4
- Whitman wins
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1917
- Longest streak
- 4 Montana
- Current streak
- 4 Montana
- Last 10 meetings
- Montana 4–1
- Most recent
- 1937
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 22.8 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Montana
- 3–1 Montana’s record at home
- At Whitman
- 0–1 Whitman’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Montana’s biggest win1926: Montana 56, Whitman 7by 49 points
- Whitman’s biggest win1917: Whitman 14, Montana 3by 11 points
- Upset1917: Whitman 14, Montana 3Whitman had a 14% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
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
1917 · Evening capital news, Boise, Idaho, Nov 4, 1917
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 25, 1937 | Montana 25, Whitman 0 | at Montana | ||
| Nov 6, 1926 | Montana 56, Whitman 7 | at Montana | ||
| Nov 22, 1924 | Montana 20, Whitman 0 | at Montana | ||
| Nov 3, 1923 | Montana 16, Whitman 7 | at Whitman | ||
| Nov 3, 1917 | Whitman 14, Montana 3 | at Montana |
Every game is listed as played on the field.