Marquette vs. Texas Tech

Marquette and Texas Tech first met in 1938 and have played 3 times; Texas Tech leads the series 2–⁠1. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Texas Tech 2–⁠1.

Marquette wins
1
Texas Tech wins
2
Ties
0
First meeting
1938
Longest streak
1 Texas Tech
Current streak
1 Texas Tech
Last 10 meetings
Texas Tech 2–⁠1
Most recent
1940

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s1–⁠1
1940s0–⁠1
Average margin
9.7 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Marquette
0–⁠1 Marquette’s record at home
At Texas Tech
1–⁠1 Texas Tech’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 Texas Tech, 1938 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.

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1938 game: Texas Tech Smears Marquette, III, For Tenth Win

    1938 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 27, 1938

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

Oct 26, 1940Texas Tech 20, Marquette 13at Marquette
Nov 18, 1939Marquette 22, Texas Tech 19at Texas Tech
Nov 26, 193817Texas Tech 21, Marquette 2at Texas Tech

Every game is listed as played on the field.