Kansas vs. Michigan State

Kansas and Michigan State have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1934; Michigan State leads the series 5–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Michigan State 5–⁠1.

Kansas wins
1
Michigan State wins
5
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1934
Longest streak
5 Michigan State
Current streak
1 Kansas
Last 10 meetings
Michigan State 5–⁠1
Most recent
1994

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠4
1990s1–⁠1
Average margin
21.5 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Kansas
1–⁠2 Kansas’s record at home
At Michigan State
3–⁠0 Michigan State’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. Kansas’s biggest win1994: Kansas 17, Michigan State 10by 7 points
  2. Michigan State’s biggest win1935: Michigan State 42, Kansas 0by 42 points

Coach against coach

YearsKansasSeriesMichigan State
1934–⁠1937Adrian Lindsey0–⁠4Charlie Bachman

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Kansas’s side (Lindsey 0–⁠4 against Bachman). 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 and Michigan State, 1934 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 The Indianapolis times's story of the 1935 game

    1935 · The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], Oct 18, 1935

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 10, 1994Kansas 17, Michigan State 10at Kansas
Sep 11, 1993Michigan State 31, Kansas 14at Michigan State
Oct 30, 1937Michigan State 16, Kansas 0at Michigan State
Nov 14, 1936Michigan State 41, Kansas 0at Kansas
Oct 12, 1935Michigan State 42, Kansas 0at Michigan State
Nov 24, 1934Michigan State 6, Kansas 0at Kansas

Every game is listed as played on the field.