Missouri vs. Penn State
Missouri and Penn State have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1959; Penn State leads the series 3–1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Penn State 3–1, and Penn State has won the last 2. Share
- Missouri wins
- 1
- Penn State wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1959
- Longest streak
- 2 Penn State
- Current streak
- 2 Penn State
- Last 10 meetings
- Penn State 3–1
- Most recent
- 1980
The series at a glance
- Both ranked
- 3 meetings: Missouri 1, Penn State 2; 1 both in the top 10
- Average margin
- 9.8 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Missouri
- 0–2 Missouri’s record at home
- At Penn State
- 0–1 Penn State’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 0–1 Missouri first
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.
Stars of the series
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers

1960 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 4, 1960
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 4, 1980 | 17Penn State 29, 9Missouri 21 | at Missouri | ||
| Jan 1, 1970 | 2Penn State 10, 6Missouri 3 | Neutral site | Orange Bowl | |
| Oct 1, 1960 | 19Missouri 21, 20Penn State 8 | at Penn State | ||
| Sep 19, 1959 | Penn State 19, Missouri 8 | at Missouri |
Every game is listed as played on the field.