Navy vs. Ohio State

Navy and Ohio State first met in 1930 and have played 5 times; Ohio State leads the series 5–⁠0. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Ohio State 5–⁠0, and Ohio State has won the last 5.

Scheduled 2029 at Ohio State. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).

Navy wins
0
Ohio State wins
5
Ties
0
First meeting
1930
Longest streak
5 Ohio State
Current streak
5 Ohio State
Last 10 meetings
Ohio State 5–⁠0
Most recent
2014

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠2
1980s0–⁠1
2000s0–⁠1
2010s0–⁠1
Average margin
14.2 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Navy
0–⁠1 Navy’s record at home
At Ohio State
2–⁠0 Ohio State’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠2 Navy first
Shutouts
2

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Ohio State’s biggest win1930: Ohio State 27, Navy 0by 27 points
  2. Upset1930: Ohio State 27, Navy 0Ohio State had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Navy and Ohio State, 1930 on130015001700190019401960198020002020

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

Eddie Meyers Navy1981

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

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1930 game: zUPPKE PREDICTS BADGERS DEFEAT Victory Would Give Wildcat at Least Tie for Big Ten Championship.

    1930 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 14, 1930

  • The The Bismarck tribune's story of the 1931 game: H0OSIERS AND iowa ONLY OBSTACLES IN PATH OF WILDCATS Only Startling Upset Can De- prive Evanston Team of Big Ten Supremacy GOPHERS GIVE THEM SCARE lntersectional Tits Give Way to Sectional Clashes This Weekend

    1931 · The Bismarck tribune, Nov 9, 1931

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

Aug 30, 20145Ohio State 34, Navy 17M&T Bank Stadium
Sep 5, 20096Ohio State 31, Navy 27at Ohio State
Dec 30, 198115Ohio State 31, Navy 28Neutral siteLiberty Bowl
Nov 7, 1931Ohio State 20, Navy 0at Ohio State
Nov 8, 1930Ohio State 27, Navy 0at Navy

Every game is listed as played on the field.