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Drake vs. Missouri

Drake and Missouri have 17 meetings on file, the first in 1901; Missouri leads the series 14–⁠3 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Missouri 9–⁠1, and Missouri has won the last 3.

Drake wins
3
Missouri wins
14
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1901
Longest streak
11 Missouri
Current streak
3 Missouri
Last 10 meetings
Missouri 9–⁠1
Most recent
1931

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s2–⁠2
1910s0–⁠7
1920s1–⁠3
1930s0–⁠2
Average margin
14.2 points; 7 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Drake
1–⁠5 Drake’s record at home
At Missouri
9–⁠2 Missouri’s record at home
Shutouts
9

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Drake’s biggest win1901: Drake 24, Missouri 0by 24 points
  2. Missouri’s biggest win1917: Missouri 49, Drake 0by 49 points
  3. Upset1931: Missouri 32, Drake 20Missouri had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset1928: Drake 6, Missouri 0Drake had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  5. Upset1912: Missouri 17, Drake 14Missouri had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsDrakeSeriesMissouri
1928–⁠1931Ossie Solem1–⁠3Gwinn Henry

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Drake’s side (Solem 1–⁠3 against Henry). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Drake and Missouri, 1901 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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 The St. Louis Republic's story of the 1903 game: MISSOURI TIGERS wHITEwAsHED. Columbia Lads Lose Game to Drake University, IL TO o.

    1903 · The St. Louis Republic, Oct 18, 1903

  • The Evening times-Republican's story of the 1909 game: SURPRISES ) STATE UNIVERSITIES VICTORY OVER AMEs DEctsivE AND UNEXPECTED. DRAKE is ouIcLAssED. BY MISSOURI UNIVERSITY Iowa Falls Loses Its Claims to State Championship Thru Its Defeat by Ida Grove-Results in College and High School Contests on tho eridiron- Other Iowa News.

    1909 · Evening times-Republican, Marshalltown, Iowa, Nov 15, 1909

  • The The Topeka state journal's story of the 1912 game: TIGERS BEAT DRAKE. Missouri's ''Yost Split Too Much for Drake.

    1912 · The Topeka state journal, Kansas, Nov 11, 1912

  • The El Paso herald's story of the 1913 game: MISSOURI BLANKS DRAKE BULL DOGS

    1913 · El Paso herald, El Paso, Tex., Nov 9, 1913

  • The Omaha daily bee's story of the 1914 game: MISSOURI DEFEATS DRAKE Columbia Eleven 0verwhelms Squad from Iowa Metropolis. SCORE IS TH1RTY-Two TO SIX Game Complete with Good, Had and indifferent PiayinE--HoAhe Team Misses Chances to score he cause OF Fumbles.

    1914 · Omaha daily bee, Omaha [Neb.], Nov 8, 1914

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

Nov 6, 1931Missouri 32, Drake 20at Drake
Oct 25, 1930Missouri 14, Drake 13at Missouri
Oct 19, 1929Missouri 20, Drake 0at Missouri
Nov 3, 1928Drake 6, Missouri 0at Missouri
Oct 29, 1921Missouri 6, Drake 0at Missouri
Oct 23, 1920Missouri 10, Drake 7at Drake
Oct 25, 1919Missouri 3, Drake 0at Missouri
Oct 27, 1917Missouri 49, Drake 0at Missouri
Nov 18, 1916Missouri 14, Drake 0at Missouri
Nov 13, 1915Missouri 41, Drake 13at Missouri
Nov 7, 1914Missouri 33, Drake 7at Drake
Nov 8, 1913Missouri 10, Drake 0at Missouri
Nov 9, 1912Missouri 17, Drake 14at Drake
Nov 13, 1909Missouri 22, Drake 6at Missouri
Nov 11, 1908Missouri 11, Drake 8at Drake
Oct 17, 1903Drake 17, Missouri 0at Missouri
Oct 26, 1901Drake 24, Missouri 0at Drake

Every game is listed as played on the field.