Notre Dame vs. Wabash
Notre Dame and Wabash first met in 1904 and have played 5 times; Notre Dame leads the series 4–1. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Notre Dame 4–1, and Notre Dame has won the last 3. Share
- Notre Dame wins
- 4
- Wabash wins
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1904
- Longest streak
- 3 Notre Dame
- Current streak
- 3 Notre Dame
- Last 10 meetings
- Notre Dame 4–1
- Most recent
- 1924
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 33.4 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Notre Dame
- 3–1 Notre Dame’s record at home
- At Wabash
- 0–1 Wabash’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
- Notre Dame’s biggest win1918: Notre Dame 67, Wabash 7by 60 points
- Wabash’s biggest win1905: Wabash 5, Notre Dame 0by 5 points
- Upset1905: Wabash 5, Notre Dame 0Wabash had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
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
1905 · The Minneapolis journal, Minneapolis, Minn., Oct 22, 1905
1916 · Ottumwa semi-weekly courier, Ottumwa, Iowa, Oct 31, 1916
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 11, 1924 | Notre Dame 34, Wabash 0 | at Notre Dame | ||
| Nov 2, 1918 | Notre Dame 67, Wabash 7 | at Wabash | ||
| Oct 28, 1916 | Notre Dame 60, Wabash 0 | at Notre Dame | ||
| Oct 21, 1905 | Wabash 5, Notre Dame 0 | at Notre Dame | ||
| Oct 1, 1904 | Notre Dame 12, Wabash 4 | at Notre Dame |
Every game is listed as played on the field.