Missouri vs. Purdue

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Missouri’s biggest win1895: Missouri 16, Purdue 6by 10 points
2. Purdue’s biggest win2017: Purdue 35, Missouri 3by 32 points

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

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  1904 · The Saint Paul globe, Minnesota, Oct 29, 1904

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  1905 · The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, Nov 5, 1905

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  1953 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 28, 1953

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  1954 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 26, 1954

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  1956 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 30, 1956

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Missouri vs. Kansas112 meetings, Missouri 56–⁠48–⁠8
• Missouri vs. Iowa State103 meetings, Missouri 61–⁠33–⁠9
• Missouri vs. Kansas State99 meetings, Missouri 60–⁠34–⁠5
• Missouri vs. Oklahoma98 meetings, Missouri 25–⁠68–⁠5
• Purdue vs. Indiana125 meetings, Purdue 75–⁠44–⁠6
• Purdue vs. Illinois101 meetings, Purdue 48–⁠47–⁠6
• Purdue vs. Iowa94 meetings, Purdue 50–⁠41–⁠3
• Purdue vs. Wisconsin91 meetings, Purdue 29–⁠54–⁠8