Notre Dame vs. South Dakota
Notre Dame and South Dakota have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1913; Notre Dame leads the series 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. Share
- Notre Dame wins
- 5
- South Dakota wins
- 0
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1913
- Longest streak
- 5 Notre Dame
- Current streak
- 5 Notre Dame
- Last 10 meetings
- Notre Dame 5–0
- Most recent
- 1917
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 22.6 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Notre Dame
- 5–0 Notre Dame’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 4
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Notre Dame’s biggest win1917: Notre Dame 40, South Dakota 0by 40 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.
From the newspapers
1913 · The Brookings register, Brookings, Brookings County, S.D., Oct 23, 1913
1914 · The Raymer enterprise, Oct 29, 1914
1915 · The Madison daily leader. (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, South Dakota, Nov 1, 1915
1916 · Norwich bulletin, Nov 13, 1916
1917 · South Bend news-times, South Bend, Ind., Oct 28, 1917
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
| Oct 27, 1917 | Notre Dame 40, South Dakota 0 | at Notre Dame | ||
| Nov 11, 1916 | Notre Dame 21, South Dakota 0 | at Notre Dame | ||
| Oct 30, 1915 | Notre Dame 6, South Dakota 0 | at Notre Dame | ||
| Oct 24, 1914 | Notre Dame 33, South Dakota 0 | at Notre Dame | ||
| Oct 18, 1913 | Notre Dame 20, South Dakota 7 | at Notre Dame |
Every game is listed as played on the field.