A Wild Notre Dame-Michigan State Rivalry Stat

Although we’ve known for a while that Notre Dame and Michigan State were set to renew their rivalry in 2026 and 2027, Thursday gave us the dates of those games.

As those were announced, the Notre Dame athletic department released a statement about the games that included some rather basic historical notes that most Notre Dame and Michigan State fans are already aware of.

There was one that especially jumped out near the bottom of the release, however.

A highly competitive series, which features the legendary 10-10 tie when top-ranked Michigan State and second-ranked Notre Dame met in East Lansing during the 1966 season, the last 64 meetings between the Irish and Spartans have featured at least one Associated Press ranked team .

I didn’t fact check it because I trust the staff at Notre Dame to have done their work and gotten that right, but that’s flat-out crazy.

Notre Dame leads the all-time series with Michigan State, 47-29-1.

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