Northwestern vs. Utah
Northwestern and Utah have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1927; 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 2. Share
- Northwestern wins
- 3
- Utah wins
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1927
- Longest streak
- 2 Northwestern
- Current streak
- 2 Northwestern
- Last 10 meetings
- Northwestern 3–1
- Most recent
- 2023
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 2020s | 1–0 |
- Average margin
- 16.8 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Northwestern
- 1–1 Northwestern’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 2–0 Northwestern first
- Shutouts
- 1
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.
Stars of the series
Named most valuable
| Ben Bryant Northwestern | 2023 |
| Clayton Thorson Northwestern | 2018 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1927 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 9, 1927
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 23, 2023 | Northwestern 14, Utah 7 | Allegiant Stadium | Las Vegas Bowl | |
| Dec 31, 2018 | Northwestern 31, 20Utah 20 | Qualcomm Stadium | Holiday Bowl | |
| Sep 26, 1981 | Utah 42, Northwestern 0 | at Northwestern | ||
| Oct 8, 1927 | Northwestern 13, Utah 6 | at Northwestern |
Every game is listed as played on the field.