Michigan Has Won Most Recent Game Against All Big Ten Teams (!!!)

Submitted by A Lot of Milk on October 30th, 2022 at 1:23 AM

Your University of Michigan Wolverines, the reigning and actively defending Big Ten champions, have won their most recent game against all 13 opponent Big Ten teams:

Michigan State, 10/29/22 (29-7)

Penn State, 10/15/22 (41-17)

@Indiana, 10/8/22 (31-10)

@Iowa, 10/1/22 (27-14)

Maryland, 9/24/22 (34-27)

Ohio State, 11/27/21 (42-27)

Northwestern, 10/23/21 (33-7)

@Nebraska, 10/9/21 (32-29)

@Wisconsin. 10/2/21 (38-17)

Rutgers, 9/25/21 (20-13)

@Minnesota, 10/24/20 (49-24)

@Illinois, 10/12/19 (42-25)

@Purdue, 9/23/17 (28-10)

This is the first time the program has accomplished this since Maryland and Rutgers joined the Big Ten in 2014 and since Nebraska joined the Big Ten in 2011. The last time we had won the most recent meeting against every Big Ten school is...I have no idea. In '97, we beat 8 of the 10 opposing Big Ten schools but had lost to Purdue the year before. There is a very good chance that this feat has not been accomplished by Michigan in a long, long time. Drink it in and enjoy the Sparty Tears

Newton Gimmick

October 30th, 2022 at 2:00 AM ^

I think it most recently happened on 9/25/04 after beating Iowa 30-17, avenging our only Big 10 loss from the previous season.  They didn't play Penn St or Wisconsin those years but beat both in 2002.  The streak lasted most of that season, until the 2004 OSU game.  Of course back then there were only 10 opponents, not 13.

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FB Dive

October 30th, 2022 at 2:47 AM ^

Fascinating. Based on some light Wikipedia research, it seems fairly rare for any Big Ten team to accomplish this. I *think* the last time it happened was in 2017, when Ohio State avenged their 2016 loss to Penn State. And they promptly blew it the next week when Iowa crushed them at Kinnick. That was a fun game to watch.

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Newton Gimmick

October 30th, 2022 at 9:51 AM ^

Yeah I found that as the most recent. A few years earlier, OSU and MSU traded the feat.  (Man I am glad those days are over)

OSU held it 11/24/12 (beat M)--12/7/13 (L to MSU)

MSU 12/7/13 (W OSU)--11/8/14* (L OSU)

OSU 11/8/14 (W MSU)--11/21/15 (L MSU)

MSU didn't claim the title in 2015, however, as they'd lost to Nebraska two weeks earlier 

Penn St almost pulled it off in mid-2017 but also lacked a Nebraska win.  They hadn't played since 2013 and PSU lost that one. 

*If one wants to be churlish - and I do - once Maryland and Rutgers joined the Big 10 in 2014, MSU no longer held the title, as they had lost their most recent non con games to those schools (Maryland 1950, Rutgers 2004)

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