Iowa State vs. Marquette

Iowa State and Marquette first met in 1927 and have played 11 times; Marquette leads the series 8–⁠2–⁠1. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Marquette 7–⁠2.

Iowa State wins
2
Marquette wins
8
Ties
1
First meeting
1927
Longest streak
4 Marquette
Current streak
0 tie
Last 10 meetings
Marquette 7–⁠2
Most recent
1951

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s0–⁠3
1930s2–⁠2
1940s0–⁠3
1950s0–⁠0–⁠1
Average margin
12.5 points; 5 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Iowa State
0–⁠1 Iowa State’s record at home
At Marquette
7–⁠2–⁠1 Marquette’s record at home
Shutouts
4

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Iowa State’s biggest win1938: Iowa State 7, Marquette 0by 7 points
  2. Marquette’s biggest win1927: Marquette 34, Iowa State 0by 34 points
  3. Upset1937: Iowa State 3, Marquette 0Iowa State had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsIowa StateSeriesMarquette
1927–⁠1929C. Noel Workman0–⁠3Frank Murray

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Iowa State’s side (Workman 0–⁠3 against Murray). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Iowa State and Marquette, 1927 on13001500170019401960198020002020

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 Evening star's story of the 1928 game: FOOT BALL RESULTS

    1928 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 30, 1928

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1935 game: EOOT BALL 41REsULTs

    1935 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Nov 4, 1935

  • The Evening star's story of the 1941 game: Football Scores

    1941 · Evening star, Nov 30, 1941

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 6, 1951Marquette 6, Iowa State 6at Marquette
Oct 10, 1942Marquette 34, Iowa State 12at Iowa State
Nov 29, 1941Marquette 20, Iowa State 13at Marquette
Oct 11, 1940Marquette 41, Iowa State 25at Marquette
Nov 11, 1939Marquette 21, Iowa State 2at Marquette
Oct 29, 1938Iowa State 7, Marquette 0at Marquette
Nov 13, 1937Iowa State 3, Marquette 0at Marquette
Nov 2, 1935Marquette 28, Iowa State 12at Marquette
Oct 18, 1929Marquette 14, Iowa State 6at Marquette
Nov 29, 1928Marquette 6, Iowa State 0at Marquette
Nov 24, 1927Marquette 34, Iowa State 0at Marquette

Every game is listed as played on the field.