Kentucky vs. Marquette
Kentucky and Marquette first met in 1945 and have played 3 times; Kentucky leads the series 2–1. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Kentucky 2–1, and Kentucky has won the last 2. Share
- Kentucky wins
- 2
- Marquette wins
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1945
- Longest streak
- 2 Kentucky
- Current streak
- 2 Kentucky
- Last 10 meetings
- Kentucky 2–1
- Most recent
- 1948
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 22 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Kentucky
- 0–1 Kentucky’s record at home
- At Marquette
- 0–2 Marquette’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
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
1948 · The Daily Alaska empire, Oct 25, 1948
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 23, 1948 | Kentucky 25, Marquette 0 | at Marquette | ||
| Nov 9, 1946 | Kentucky 35, Marquette 0 | at Marquette | ||
| Nov 17, 1945 | Marquette 19, Kentucky 13 | at Kentucky |
Every game is listed as played on the field.