Duke vs. Purdue
Duke and Purdue have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1953; Duke leads the series 2–1–1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Duke 2–1. Share
- Duke wins
- 2
- Purdue wins
- 1
- Ties
- 1
- Earliest on file
- 1953
- Longest streak
- 1 Duke
- Current streak
- 1 Duke
- Last 10 meetings
- Duke 2–1
- Most recent
- 1974
The series at a glance
- Both ranked
- 1 meeting: Duke 0, Purdue 0; 1 both in the top 10
- Average margin
- 7 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Duke
- 2–0 Duke’s record at home
- At Purdue
- 1–0–1 Purdue’s record at home
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
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, Oct 10, 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
| Oct 5, 1974 | Duke 16, Purdue 14 | at Duke | ||
| Oct 6, 1973 | Purdue 27, Duke 7 | at Purdue | ||
| Oct 9, 1954 | 5Purdue 13, 6Duke 13 | at Purdue | ||
| Oct 10, 1953 | 8Duke 20, Purdue 14 | at Duke |
Every game is listed as played on the field.