Notre Dame vs. Tulane

Notre Dame and Tulane have 8 meetings on file, the first in 1944; Notre Dame leads the series 8–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Notre Dame 8–⁠0, and Notre Dame has won the last 8.

Notre Dame wins
8
Tulane wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1944
Longest streak
8 Notre Dame
Current streak
8 Notre Dame
Last 10 meetings
Notre Dame 8–⁠0
Most recent
1971

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s5–⁠0
1950s1–⁠0
1960s1–⁠0
1970s1–⁠0
Both ranked
1 meeting: Notre Dame 1, Tulane 0; 1 both in the top 10
Average margin
30 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Notre Dame
4–⁠0 Notre Dame’s record at home
At Tulane
0–⁠4 Tulane’s record at home
Shutouts
3

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Notre Dame’s biggest win1947: Notre Dame 59, Tulane 6by 53 points
  2. Ranked showdown1949: Notre Dame 46, Tulane 7No. 4 Tulane at No. 1 Notre Dame

Coach against coach

YearsNotre DameSeriesTulane
1946–⁠1950Frank Leahy4–⁠0Henry Frnka

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Notre Dame’s side (Leahy 4–⁠0 against Frnka). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Notre Dame and Tulane, 1944 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1945 game: FOOTBALL ! SCORES

    1945 · The Daily Alaska empire, Nov 26, 1945

  • The Evening star's story of the 1946 game: Army, Irish, Georgia, U. c. |. A. Will Risk .Unbeaten Records

    1946 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 25, 1946

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story of the 1947 game: Smother Tulane, 59-6; Trojans Lick UCLA By 60

    1947 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Nov 23, 1947

  • The Evening star's story of the 1949 game: Notre Dame, Army, Oklahoma Continue Unbeuten; Navy Loses

    1949 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 16, 1949

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 13, 19718Notre Dame 21, Tulane 7at Notre Dame
Oct 25, 196912Notre Dame 37, Tulane 0at Tulane
Oct 14, 195010Notre Dame 13, Tulane 9at Tulane
Oct 15, 19491Notre Dame 46, 4Tulane 7at Notre Dame
Nov 22, 19472Notre Dame 59, Tulane 6at Notre Dame
Nov 23, 19462Notre Dame 41, Tulane 0at Tulane
Nov 24, 19455Notre Dame 32, Tulane 6at Tulane
Oct 7, 1944Notre Dame 26, Tulane 0at Notre Dame

Every game is listed as played on the field.