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1887 – present
The shape: The series began with Notre Dame's first games, in 1887, and its grievances shaped the program: Michigan won the first eight meetings, and Notre Dame's first win, in 1909, set off the boycott that emptied Notre Dame's western schedules and pushed Harper's teams east — the 1913 Army game is one of its consequences. The schools then met only twice in more than sixty years, in 1942 and 1943 — Michigan winning the first meeting, Notre Dame winning 35–12 at No. 2 Michigan in the second — before the modern series resumed in 1978.
The record: Michigan leads the series 25–17–1 in the recent accounting, and the teams last met in 2019, a Michigan win. The totals vary between accounts and between eras of the NCAA's book — Notre Dame's win of 2012 stands inside the vacated seasons — and the figure is carried here with its source named rather than smoothed into false precision.
Sources:
- Michigan–Notre Dame rivalry record — the series' beginnings, the boycott's consequences, the 1942–43 meetings and the 1978 resumption.
- Recent series accounting — Michigan's 25–17–1 lead through the most recent meetings; the 2019 meeting.