Baylor vs. Mississippi State

Baylor and Mississippi State have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1948; Baylor leads the series 2–⁠1–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Baylor 2–⁠1.

Baylor wins
2
Mississippi State wins
1
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1948
Longest streak
2 Baylor
Current streak
1 Mississippi State
Last 10 meetings
Baylor 2–⁠1
Most recent
1995

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s1–⁠0–⁠1
1950s1–⁠0
1990s0–⁠1
Average margin
6 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Baylor
0–⁠1 Baylor’s record at home
At Mississippi State
0–⁠1 Mississippi State’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0–⁠1 Baylor first

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Baylor and Mississippi State, 1948 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1950 game: Larry IsbeN Stars As Baylor Defeats Mississippi State

    1950 · Evening star, Oct 8, 1950

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Sep 16, 1995Mississippi State 30, Baylor 21at Baylor
Oct 7, 1950Baylor 14, Mississippi State 7Neutral site
Oct 1, 1949Baylor 14, Mississippi State 6at Mississippi State
Oct 2, 1948Baylor 7, Mississippi State 7Neutral site

Every game is listed as played on the field.