Marquette vs. Purdue
Marquette and Purdue first met in 1943 and have played 5 times; Purdue leads the series 5–0. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Purdue 5–0, and Purdue has won the last 5. Share
- Marquette wins
- 0
- Purdue wins
- 5
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1943
- Longest streak
- 5 Purdue
- Current streak
- 5 Purdue
- Last 10 meetings
- Purdue 5–0
- Most recent
- 1949
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 18.8 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Marquette
- 0–1 Marquette’s record at home
- At Purdue
- 4–0 Purdue’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
- Purdue’s biggest win1949: Purdue 41, Marquette 7by 34 points
- Upset1943: Purdue 21, Marquette 0Purdue had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
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
1944 · Evening star, Oct 1, 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 12, 1949 | Purdue 41, Marquette 7 | at Purdue | ||
| Oct 30, 1948 | Purdue 14, Marquette 9 | at Purdue | ||
| Sep 22, 1945 | Purdue 14, Marquette 13 | at Purdue | ||
| Sep 30, 1944 | Purdue 40, Marquette 7 | at Purdue | ||
| Sep 25, 1943 | Purdue 21, Marquette 0 | at Marquette |
Every game is listed as played on the field.