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.

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

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s0–⁠1
1960s1–⁠1
1980s0–⁠1
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

End-of-season Elo ratings of Missouri and Penn State, 1959 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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

Chuck Burkhart Penn State1969
Mike Reid Penn State1969

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

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1960 game: Tough Games Await Army, Falcons

    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, 198017Penn State 29, 9Missouri 21at Missouri
Jan 1, 19702Penn State 10, 6Missouri 3Neutral siteOrange Bowl
Oct 1, 196019Missouri 21, 20Penn State 8at Penn State
Sep 19, 1959Penn State 19, Missouri 8at Missouri

Every game is listed as played on the field.