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. Share
- 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
- 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
- Drake’s biggest win1975: Drake 31, Louisville 7by 24 points
- Louisville’s biggest win1966: Louisville 66, Drake 26by 40 points
- Upset1974: Drake 38, Louisville 35Drake had a 11% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
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.
Stars of the series
Named most valuable
| Ken Porco Louisville | 1957 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers

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, 1979 | Louisville 31, Drake 21 | at Drake | ||
| Nov 12, 1977 | Louisville 18, Drake 13 | at Louisville | ||
| Sep 25, 1976 | Louisville 37, Drake 24 | at Louisville | ||
| Sep 20, 1975 | Drake 31, Louisville 7 | at Drake | ||
| Oct 19, 1974 | Drake 38, Louisville 35 | at Louisville | ||
| Sep 22, 1973 | Louisville 27, Drake 17 | at Drake | ||
| Nov 25, 1972 | Louisville 27, Drake 0 | at Louisville | ||
| Sep 25, 1971 | Drake 10, Louisville 7 | at Drake | ||
| Nov 21, 1970 | Louisville 23, Drake 14 | at Louisville | ||
| Sep 13, 1969 | Drake 24, Louisville 24 | at Drake | ||
| Nov 23, 1968 | Drake 38, Louisville 37 | at Louisville | ||
| Sep 16, 1967 | Louisville 46, Drake 7 | at Drake | ||
| Oct 15, 1966 | Louisville 66, Drake 26 | at Louisville | ||
| Nov 13, 1965 | Louisville 32, Drake 17 | at Drake | ||
| Nov 21, 1964 | Drake 14, Louisville 8 | at Louisville | ||
| Jan 1, 1958 | Louisville 34, Drake 20 | Neutral site | Sun Bowl |
Every game is listed as played on the field.