Northwestern vs. Oklahoma
Northwestern and Oklahoma have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1939; Northwestern leads the series 3–1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Northwestern 3–1, and Northwestern has won the last 3. Share
- Northwestern wins
- 3
- Oklahoma wins
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1939
- Longest streak
- 3 Northwestern
- Current streak
- 3 Northwestern
- Last 10 meetings
- Northwestern 3–1
- Most recent
- 1997
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 1–0 |
- Both ranked
- 1 meeting: Northwestern 1, Oklahoma 0; 1 both in the top 10
- Average margin
- 23.8 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Northwestern
- 1–1 Northwestern’s record at home
- At Oklahoma
- 0–1 Oklahoma’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–0 Northwestern first
- Shutouts
- 2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
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
1939 · Evening star, Oct 8, 1939
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 23, 1997 | Northwestern 24, Oklahoma 0 | Neutral site | ||
| Sep 24, 1960 | 14Northwestern 19, Oklahoma 3 | at Oklahoma | ||
| Sep 26, 1959 | 10Northwestern 45, 2Oklahoma 13 | at Northwestern | ||
| Oct 7, 1939 | Oklahoma 23, Northwestern 0 | at Northwestern |
Every game is listed as played on the field.