Marquette vs. Santa Clara
Marquette and Santa Clara first met in 1937 and have played 3 times; Santa Clara leads the series 2–1. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Santa Clara 2–1. Share
- Marquette wins
- 1
- Santa Clara wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1937
- Longest streak
- 1 Santa Clara
- Current streak
- 1 Santa Clara
- Last 10 meetings
- Santa Clara 2–1
- Most recent
- 1951
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 19.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Marquette
- 0–2 Marquette’s record at home
- At Santa Clara
- 0–1 Santa Clara’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 1
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

1937 · Imperial Valley press, California, Nov 2, 1937

1951 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 26, 1951
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 24, 1951 | Santa Clara 27, Marquette 14 | at Marquette | ||
| Oct 28, 1950 | Marquette 21, Santa Clara 14 | at Santa Clara | ||
| Oct 30, 1937 | 14Santa Clara 38, Marquette 0 | at Marquette |
Every game is listed as played on the field.