Northwestern vs. Vanderbilt
Northwestern and Vanderbilt have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1947; Northwestern leads the series 2–1–1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Northwestern 2–1, and Northwestern has won the last 2. Share
- Northwestern wins
- 2
- Vanderbilt wins
- 1
- Ties
- 1
- Earliest on file
- 1947
- Longest streak
- 2 Northwestern
- Current streak
- 2 Northwestern
- Last 10 meetings
- Northwestern 2–1
- Most recent
- 2012
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 3.8 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Northwestern
- 1–1–1 Northwestern’s record at home
- At Vanderbilt
- 0–1 Vanderbilt’s record at home
- 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.
From the newspapers
1947 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Sep 28, 1947
1952 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 5, 1952
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 8, 2012 | Northwestern 23, Vanderbilt 13 | at Northwestern | ||
| Sep 4, 2010 | Northwestern 23, Vanderbilt 21 | at Vanderbilt | ||
| Oct 4, 1952 | Northwestern 20, Vanderbilt 20 | at Northwestern | ||
| Sep 27, 1947 | Vanderbilt 3, Northwestern 0 | at Northwestern |
Every game is listed as played on the field.