Marquette vs. Pittsburgh

Marquette and Pittsburgh first met in 1946 and have played 3 times; Pittsburgh leads the series 3–⁠0. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Pittsburgh 3–⁠0, and Pittsburgh has won the last 3.

Marquette wins
0
Pittsburgh wins
3
Ties
0
First meeting
1946
Longest streak
3 Pittsburgh
Current streak
3 Pittsburgh
Last 10 meetings
Pittsburgh 3–⁠0
Most recent
1959

The series at a glance

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

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Marquette and Pittsburgh, 1946 on130015001700195019551960

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 Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1946 game: Grid Season (otkeyed or, Eastern Field

    1946 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 21, 1946

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 19, 1959Pittsburgh 21, Marquette 15at Marquette
Oct 16, 1948Pittsburgh 21, Marquette 7at Pittsburgh
Oct 19, 1946Pittsburgh 7, Marquette 6at Pittsburgh

Every game is listed as played on the field.