Indiana vs. Kansas State

Indiana and Kansas State have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1938; Indiana leads the series 3–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Indiana 3–⁠2, and Indiana has won the last 2.

Indiana wins
3
Kansas State wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1938
Longest streak
2 Indiana
Current streak
2 Indiana
Last 10 meetings
Indiana 3–⁠2
Most recent
1965

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠1
1940s1–⁠0
1960s2–⁠1
Average margin
20 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Indiana
3–⁠1 Indiana’s record at home
At Kansas State
1–⁠0 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

  1. Indiana’s biggest win1942: Indiana 54, Kansas State 0by 54 points
  2. Kansas State’s biggest win1938: Kansas State 13, Indiana 6by 7 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Indiana and Kansas State, 1938 on1300150017001900194019501960197019801990200020102020

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 Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1938 game: FOOT BALL @ ll{5SW& IFS Ma

    1938 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 24, 1938

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1942 game: FOOTBALL SCORES

    1942 · The Daily Alaska empire, Nov 16, 1942

  • The Evening star's story of the 1962 game: Indiana Blanks Kansas State

    1962 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 23, 1962

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 18, 1965Indiana 19, Kansas State 7at Indiana
Sep 22, 1962Indiana 21, Kansas State 0at Indiana
Sep 23, 1961Kansas State 14, Indiana 8at Kansas State
Nov 14, 1942Indiana 54, Kansas State 0at Indiana
Oct 22, 1938Kansas State 13, Indiana 6at Indiana

Every game is listed as played on the field.