Ohio State vs. Vanderbilt
Ohio State and Vanderbilt have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1908; Ohio State leads the series 3–1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Ohio State 3–1. Share
- Ohio State wins
- 3
- Vanderbilt wins
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1908
- Longest streak
- 2 Ohio State
- Current streak
- 1 Ohio State
- Last 10 meetings
- Ohio State 3–1
- Most recent
- 1933
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 10.3 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Ohio State
- 2–1 Ohio State’s record at home
- At Vanderbilt
- 0–1 Vanderbilt’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
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
1908 · The Montgomery advertiser, Alabama, Nov 15, 1908
1909 · The Birmingham age-herald, Nov 14, 1909
1931 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 11, 1931
1933 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 15, 1933
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 14, 1933 | Ohio State 20, Vanderbilt 0 | at Ohio State | ||
| Oct 10, 1931 | Vanderbilt 26, Ohio State 21 | at Ohio State | ||
| Nov 13, 1909 | Ohio State 5, Vanderbilt 0 | at Ohio State | ||
| Nov 14, 1908 | Ohio State 17, Vanderbilt 6 | at Vanderbilt |
Every game is listed as played on the field.