Kansas State vs. Michigan State

Kansas State and Michigan State have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1933; Michigan State leads the series 5–⁠0–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Michigan State 5–⁠0, and Michigan State has won the last 5.

Kansas State wins
0
Michigan State wins
5
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1933
Longest streak
5 Michigan State
Current streak
5 Michigan State
Last 10 meetings
Michigan State 5–⁠0
Most recent
1958

The series at a glance

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

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Michigan State’s biggest win1944: Michigan State 45, Kansas State 6by 39 points

Coach against coach

YearsKansas StateSeriesMichigan State
1956–⁠1958Bernard Mertes0–⁠3Duffy Daugherty

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Kansas State and Michigan State, 1933 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 1933 game: FOOT BALL RESULTS

    1933 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 5, 1933

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1940 game: 1, }. ,,!ls sy;'i;E'[|

    1940 · The Daily Alaska empire, Nov 4, 1940

  • The Evening star's story of the 1944 game

    1944 · Evening star, Oct 17, 1944

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 22, 1958Michigan State 26, Kansas State 7at Michigan State
Nov 23, 19571Michigan State 27, Kansas State 9at Michigan State
Nov 24, 195610Michigan State 38, Kansas State 17at Michigan State
Oct 14, 1944Michigan State 45, Kansas State 6at Michigan State
Nov 2, 1940Michigan State 32, Kansas State 0at Michigan State
Nov 4, 1933Michigan State 0, Kansas State 0at Michigan State

Every game is listed as played on the field.