Drake vs. Kansas State
Drake and Kansas State have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1924; Drake leads the series 3–2 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Drake 3–2. Share
- Drake wins
- 3
- Kansas State wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1924
- Longest streak
- 2 Drake
- Current streak
- 1 Drake
- Last 10 meetings
- Drake 3–2
- Most recent
- 1981
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 21.2 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Drake
- 1–1 Drake’s record at home
- At Kansas State
- 1–2 Kansas State’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Drake’s biggest win1925: Drake 19, Kansas State 0by 19 points
- Kansas State’s biggest win1953: Kansas State 50, Drake 0by 50 points
Both programs through the years
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
1954 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 6, 1954
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 26, 1981 | Drake 18, Kansas State 17 | at Kansas State | ||
| Nov 6, 1954 | Kansas State 53, Drake 18 | at Drake | ||
| Sep 19, 1953 | Kansas State 50, Drake 0 | at Kansas State | ||
| Oct 10, 1925 | Drake 19, Kansas State 0 | at Drake | ||
| Nov 15, 1924 | Drake 7, Kansas State 6 | at Kansas State |
Every game is listed as played on the field.