Penn State vs. TCU
Penn State and TCU have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1953; 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
- Penn State wins
- 3
- TCU wins
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1953
- Longest streak
- 2 Penn State
- Current streak
- 2 Penn State
- Last 10 meetings
- Penn State 3–1
- Most recent
- 1978
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 32.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Penn State
- 3–0 Penn State’s record at home
- At TCU
- 1–0 TCU’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 1
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.
From the newspapers
1953 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 25, 1953
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
| Sep 30, 1978 | 5Penn State 58, TCU 0 | at Penn State | ||
| Oct 23, 1971 | 7Penn State 66, TCU 14 | at Penn State | ||
| Oct 23, 1954 | 20TCU 20, Penn State 7 | at TCU | ||
| Oct 24, 1953 | Penn State 27, TCU 21 | at Penn State |
Every game is listed as played on the field.