Notre Dame vs. Pennsylvania
Notre Dame and Pennsylvania have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1930; Notre Dame leads the series 5–0–1 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Notre Dame 5–0, and Notre Dame has won the last 3. Share
- Notre Dame wins
- 5
- Pennsylvania wins
- 0
- Ties
- 1
- Earliest on file
- 1930
- Longest streak
- 3 Notre Dame
- Current streak
- 3 Notre Dame
- Last 10 meetings
- Notre Dame 5–0
- Most recent
- 1955
The series at a glance
- Both ranked
- 1 meeting: Notre Dame 0, Pennsylvania 0
- Average margin
- 27.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Notre Dame
- 1–0 Notre Dame’s record at home
- At Pennsylvania
- 0–4–1 Pennsylvania’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 1
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Notre Dame’s biggest win1931: Notre Dame 49, Pennsylvania 0by 49 points
- Ranked showdown1952: Notre Dame 7, Pennsylvania 7 (tie)No. 10 Notre Dame at No. 12 Pennsylvania
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

1930 · Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, Nov 9, 1930

1931 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 8, 1931

1954 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 7, 1954
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
| Nov 5, 1955 | Notre Dame 46, Pennsylvania 14 | at Pennsylvania | ||
| Nov 6, 1954 | 5Notre Dame 42, Pennsylvania 7 | at Pennsylvania | ||
| Nov 7, 1953 | 1Notre Dame 28, Pennsylvania 20 | at Pennsylvania | ||
| Sep 27, 1952 | 12Pennsylvania 7, 10Notre Dame 7 | at Pennsylvania | ||
| Nov 7, 1931 | Notre Dame 49, Pennsylvania 0 | at Notre Dame | ||
| Nov 8, 1930 | Notre Dame 60, Pennsylvania 20 | at Pennsylvania |
Every game is listed as played on the field.