Notre Dame vs. Stanford

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Notre Dame’s biggest win2026: Notre Dame 58, Stanford 7by 51 points
2. Stanford’s biggest win2010: Stanford 37, Notre Dame 14by 23 points
3. Upset2022: Stanford 16, Notre Dame 14Stanford had a 12% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1990: Stanford 36, Notre Dame 31Stanford had a 12% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1992: Stanford 33, Notre Dame 16Stanford had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown2018: Notre Dame 38, Stanford 17No. 7 Stanford at No. 8 Notre Dame
7. Ranked showdown2015: Stanford 38, Notre Dame 36No. 4 Notre Dame at No. 13 Stanford
8. Ranked showdown2014: Notre Dame 17, Stanford 14No. 14 Stanford at No. 9 Notre Dame

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Notre Dame’s side (Holtz 2–⁠1 against Green). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

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  1924 · New Britain herald, Jan 2, 1925

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  1942 · Evening star, Oct 11, 1942

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  1963 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 31, 1963

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.

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game once: 2012.

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA). Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

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  The 2021 game

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  The 2021 game

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  The 2021 game

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  The 2021 game

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  The 2017 game

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  The 2017 game

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).

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.

• Notre Dame vs. Navy98 meetings, Notre Dame 84–⁠13–⁠1
• Notre Dame vs. USC96 meetings, Notre Dame 53–⁠38–⁠5
• Notre Dame vs. Purdue90 meetings, Notre Dame 62–⁠26–⁠2
• Notre Dame vs. Pittsburgh74 meetings, Notre Dame 52–⁠21–⁠1
• Stanford vs. California105 meetings, Stanford 54–⁠45–⁠6
• Stanford vs. USC102 meetings, Stanford 33–⁠66–⁠3
• Stanford vs. UCLA95 meetings, Stanford 43–⁠49–⁠3
• Stanford vs. Washington93 meetings, Stanford 43–⁠46–⁠4