Notre Dame vs. Rutgers
Notre Dame and Rutgers have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1921; officially, Notre Dame leads 4–0; as played, 5–0 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Notre Dame 5–0, and Notre Dame has won the last 5. The NCAA vacated Notre Dame’s win (2013); it doesn’t count officially. This page counts every game as it was played. Share
- Official series
- Notre Dame leads 4–0
- Notre Dame wins on file
- 5
- Rutgers wins on file
- 0
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1921
- Longest streak
- 5 Notre Dame
- Current streak
- 5 Notre Dame
- Last 10 meetings
- Notre Dame 5–0
- Most recent
- 2013
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 1–0 |
- Average margin
- 38.6 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Notre Dame
- 2–0 Notre Dame’s record at home
- At Rutgers
- 0–2 Rutgers’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–0 Notre Dame first
- Shutouts
- 3
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Notre Dame’s biggest win1996: Notre Dame 62, Rutgers 0by 62 points
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
| Zack Martin Notre Dame | 2013 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1921 · The Morning Tulsa daily world, Tulsa, Okla., Nov 9, 1921
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 28, 2013 | 25Notre Dame 29, Rutgers 16vacated | Neutral site | Pinstripe Bowl | |
| Nov 23, 2002 | 8Notre Dame 42, Rutgers 0 | at Notre Dame | ||
| Nov 18, 2000 | 11Notre Dame 45, Rutgers 17 | at Rutgers | ||
| Nov 23, 1996 | 10Notre Dame 62, Rutgers 0 | at Notre Dame | ||
| Nov 8, 1921 | Notre Dame 48, Rutgers 0 | at Rutgers |
Every game is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.