Drake vs. Louisville

Drake and Louisville have 16 meetings on file, the first in 1957; Louisville leads the series 10–⁠5–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Louisville 6–⁠3, and Louisville has won the last 3.

Drake wins
5
Louisville wins
10
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1957
Longest streak
3 Louisville
Current streak
3 Louisville
Last 10 meetings
Louisville 6–⁠3
Most recent
1979

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s0–⁠1
1960s2–⁠3–⁠1
1970s3–⁠6
Average margin
13.7 points; 5 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Drake
2–⁠4–⁠1 Drake’s record at home
At Louisville
5–⁠3 Louisville’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠1 Drake first
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Drake’s biggest win1975: Drake 31, Louisville 7by 24 points
  2. Louisville’s biggest win1966: Louisville 66, Drake 26by 40 points
  3. Upset1974: Drake 38, Louisville 35Drake had a 11% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Drake and Louisville, 1957 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

Ken Porco Louisville1957

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1957 game: Drake Beaten |AtOwn Game BY Louisville

    1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Jan 2, 1958

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 29, 1979Louisville 31, Drake 21at Drake
Nov 12, 1977Louisville 18, Drake 13at Louisville
Sep 25, 1976Louisville 37, Drake 24at Louisville
Sep 20, 1975Drake 31, Louisville 7at Drake
Oct 19, 1974Drake 38, Louisville 35at Louisville
Sep 22, 1973Louisville 27, Drake 17at Drake
Nov 25, 1972Louisville 27, Drake 0at Louisville
Sep 25, 1971Drake 10, Louisville 7at Drake
Nov 21, 1970Louisville 23, Drake 14at Louisville
Sep 13, 1969Drake 24, Louisville 24at Drake
Nov 23, 1968Drake 38, Louisville 37at Louisville
Sep 16, 1967Louisville 46, Drake 7at Drake
Oct 15, 1966Louisville 66, Drake 26at Louisville
Nov 13, 1965Louisville 32, Drake 17at Drake
Nov 21, 1964Drake 14, Louisville 8at Louisville
Jan 1, 1958Louisville 34, Drake 20Neutral siteSun Bowl

Every game is listed as played on the field.