Marquette vs. Pacific

Marquette and Pacific first met in 1951 and have played 9 times; Pacific leads the series 4–⁠3–⁠2. Over the last 9 meetings it’s Pacific 4–⁠3.

Marquette wins
3
Pacific wins
4
Ties
2
First meeting
1951
Longest streak
2 Pacific
Current streak
1 Marquette
Last 10 meetings
Pacific 4–⁠3
Most recent
1960

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s2–⁠4–⁠2
1960s1–⁠0
Average margin
10.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Marquette
1–⁠3–⁠1 Marquette’s record at home
At Pacific
1–⁠2–⁠1 Pacific’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. Marquette’s biggest win1960: Marquette 20, Pacific 0by 20 points
  2. Pacific’s biggest win1956: Pacific 28, Marquette 6by 22 points
  3. Upset1958: Marquette 28, Pacific 18Marquette had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Marquette and Pacific, 1951 on13001500170019551960

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 1957 game: College Of Pacific Beats Marquette

    1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 3, 1957

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 24, 1960Marquette 20, Pacific 0at Pacific
Oct 17, 1959Pacific 22, Marquette 13at Pacific
Oct 25, 1958Marquette 28, Pacific 18at Marquette
Nov 2, 1957Pacific 21, Marquette 7at Marquette
Oct 20, 1956Pacific 28, Marquette 6at Marquette
Nov 13, 1954Marquette 19, Pacific 13at Pacific
Oct 24, 1953Marquette 20, Pacific 20at Marquette
Nov 29, 1952Pacific 27, Marquette 27at Pacific
Nov 2, 1951Pacific 39, Marquette 27at Marquette

Every game is listed as played on the field.