Marquette vs. TCU

Marquette and TCU first met in 1936 and have played 4 times; TCU leads the series 4–⁠0. Over the last 4 meetings it’s TCU 4–⁠0, and TCU has won the last 4.

Marquette wins
0
TCU wins
4
Ties
0
First meeting
1936
Longest streak
4 TCU
Current streak
4 TCU
Last 10 meetings
TCU 4–⁠0
Most recent
1958

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠2
1950s0–⁠2
Both ranked
1 meeting: Marquette 0, TCU 1
Average margin
19.5 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Marquette
0–⁠2 Marquette’s record at home
At TCU
1–⁠0 TCU’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠1 Marquette first
Shutouts
1

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 TCU, 1936 on13001500170019401945195019551960

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.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

L.D. Meyer TCU1936

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1938 game: FOOT BALL @ ll{5SW& IFS Ma

    1938 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 24, 1938

  • The Evening star's story of the 1957 game: Horned Frogs Top Marquette

    1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 27, 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.

Photos

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).

Every game

Nov 8, 195811TCU 36, Marquette 8at TCU
Oct 26, 1957TCU 26, Marquette 7at Marquette
Oct 22, 19387TCU 21, Marquette 0at Marquette
Jan 1, 193718TCU 16, 15Marquette 6Neutral siteCotton Bowl

Every game is listed as played on the field.