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Indiana and Notre Dame have played 29 times, but not since 1991. Before that, their most recent meeting was 1958.

Amongst the 59 different in-state matchups between power conference teams (P4 + Notre Dame + Washington State + Oregon State), the 33-year drought for the Hoosiers and Irish is the longest. Second place is a three-way tie between Florida State & UCF, as well as two pairs of old SWC rivals Houston & Texas A&M and Texas & SMU, all of whom last played in 1995.

Of course, UCF, Houston, and SMU all spent a good amount of time outside the power conference ranks, while Indiana and Notre Dame did not. Excluding the teams that spent time in G5 conferences, the longest drought goes to Baylor/Texas A&M who last played in 2011 - twenty years more recently than Indiana/Notre Dame.

But even if we look at all FBS in-state matchups, Indiana/Notre Dame still stands out as a long-dormant matchup.

Only three matchups were played less recently:

-Fresno State & Stanford last played in 1928 (but are scheduled to play again in 2028, the centennial of their last meeting!)

-Mississippi and Southern Miss last played in 1984

-Memphis and Vanderbilt last played in 1989

Of course, there are a handful of in-state matchups that have never happened. Out of the 275 possible pairings, 22 have yet to occur (8%). Coupled with the three played matchups with longer droughts than IU/ND, this means just 25/275 or about 9% of all in-state FBS matchups haven’t occurred since the last tine Indiana and Notre Dame played.

In case you’re wondering, the matchups that have never happened are as follows:

-Alabama has never played Jacksonville State, South Alabama, Troy, or UAB (all of their in-state foes except Auburn), and has no plans to do so.

-Auburn has never played South Alabama or Troy. However, Auburn is scheduled to play South Alabama in 2025. Thanks Auburn, very cool!

-Jacksonville State has never played South Alabama. There don’t seem to be any plans for a future game.

-Arkansas and Arkansas State, the only FBS programs in Arkansas, have yet to play, but are scheduled to finally do so in 2025, hopefully complete with some sort of state-derby style nickname like the “Natural Bowl”

-Florida State has yet to play FAU or FIU and haven’t scheduled them.

-Georgia has yet to play Georgia State or Kennesaw State and haven’t scheduled them.

-Georgia Southern has yet to play Kennesaw State, but are scheduled to play them in 2032, a year which is closer in time to us than 2015.

-Duke has yet to play Appalachian State and hasn’t scheduled them.

-Neither NC State nor Wake Forest have played Charlotte. The Wolfpack are slated to play Charlotte in 2031, but no games against Wake Forest have been scheduled.

-TCU hasn’t played Sam Houston State yet, but the two are scheduled to play in 2027.

-SMU was supposed to play UTSA for the first time ever in a 2020 bowl game, but it was cancelled because of COVID. There do not seem to be any plans to rectify this with a non-conference game in the future.

-Texas Tech and TCU also haven’t played UTSA yet, but given that the Roadrunners’ program only began in 2011, it isn’t surprising they haven’t gotten around to playing everyone yet.

-Lastly, Texas and Texas State haven’t played yet, but in 2026 they are scheduled to play.

Full list of all matchups, records, and most recent year, sourced with Winsipedia

Note: All data discussed in this post considers the full history of each program currently in FBS, not just the time they spent as an FBS program