Kansas State vs. Marquette
Kansas State and Marquette first met in 1925 and have played 13 times; Marquette leads the series 7–6. Over the last 10 meetings it’s even at 5–5, and Kansas State has won the last 2. Share
- Kansas State wins
- 6
- Marquette wins
- 7
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1925
- Longest streak
- 5 Marquette
- Current streak
- 2 Kansas State
- Last 10 meetings
- even at 5–5
- Most recent
- 1956
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 1–2 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 3–3 | ||||||||||
| 1940s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 2–1 |
- Average margin
- 18.6 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Kansas State
- 1–0 Kansas State’s record at home
- At Marquette
- 7–5 Marquette’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 8
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Kansas State’s biggest win1955: Kansas State 42, Marquette 0by 42 points
- Marquette’s biggest win1945: Marquette 55, Kansas State 13by 42 points
- Upset1926: Marquette 14, Kansas State 0Marquette had a 12% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1955: Kansas State 42, Marquette 0Kansas State had a 33% 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.
From the newspapers
1934 · Evening star, Oct 13, 1934
1945 · The Daily Alaska empire, Oct 15, 1945
1956 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 11, 1956
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 10, 1956 | Kansas State 41, Marquette 14 | at Marquette | ||
| Oct 8, 1955 | Kansas State 42, Marquette 0 | at Marquette | ||
| Oct 7, 1950 | Marquette 46, Kansas State 6 | at Marquette | ||
| Oct 13, 1945 | Marquette 55, Kansas State 13 | at Marquette | ||
| Oct 6, 1939 | Kansas State 3, Marquette 0 | at Marquette | ||
| Oct 14, 1938 | Kansas State 6, Marquette 0 | at Marquette | ||
| Oct 16, 1937 | Kansas State 13, Marquette 0 | at Kansas State | ||
| Oct 17, 1936 | Marquette 13, Kansas State 0 | at Marquette | ||
| Oct 11, 1935 | Marquette 14, Kansas State 0 | at Marquette | ||
| Oct 12, 1934 | Marquette 27, Kansas State 20 | at Marquette | ||
| Nov 25, 1929 | Marquette 25, Kansas State 6 | at Marquette | ||
| Nov 6, 1926 | Marquette 14, Kansas State 0 | at Marquette | ||
| Nov 7, 1925 | Kansas State 2, Marquette 0 | at Marquette |
Every game is listed as played on the field.