Marquette vs. South Dakota
Marquette and South Dakota first met in 1937 and have played 4 times; Marquette leads the series 4–0. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Marquette 4–0, and Marquette has won the last 4. Share
- Marquette wins
- 4
- South Dakota wins
- 0
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1937
- Longest streak
- 4 Marquette
- Current streak
- 4 Marquette
- Last 10 meetings
- Marquette 4–0
- Most recent
- 1951
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 25.5 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Marquette
- 3–0 Marquette’s record at home
- At South Dakota
- 0–1 South Dakota’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
1947 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Sep 29, 1947
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 22, 1951 | Marquette 48, South Dakota 6 | at Marquette | ||
| Nov 20, 1948 | Marquette 32, South Dakota 0 | at Marquette | ||
| Sep 27, 1947 | Marquette 33, South Dakota 6 | at South Dakota | ||
| Oct 9, 1937 | Marquette 7, South Dakota 6 | at Marquette |
Every game is listed as played on the field.