Michigan at Notre Dame
Michigan and Notre Dame renew their rivalry Saturday, meeting for the first time since 2014. Michigan leads the all-time series 24-16-1, with Michigan winning 6 of the last 9 meetings. Notre Dame has won 2 of the last 3 meetings, however, and won the 2014 battle 31-0 in South bend.
This is one of the oldest series in college football history, with the first meeting taking place in 1887, which started a streak of 8 straight wins for the Wolverines over the Fighting Irish that went from 1887 through 1908. Notre Dame won their first game in the series in 1909, an 11-3 win.
The teams did not play again after that Notre Dame win until 1942, when Michigan won 32-30, before Notre Dame won in 1943, 35-12.
That sparked another hiatus in this series, as the two sides did not play again until 1979, a 28-14 Michigan victory. There was never again a hiatus in the series of more than 3 years, until the current 4 year hiatus that was ended in a phone call between Jim Harbaugh and Brian Kelly to fire it up once again.
Michigan's longest win streak was the one that started it all, an 8 game run. Notre Dame's longest win streak in the series was a 4 game streak from 1987-90.
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