Purdue vs. Vanderbilt
Purdue and Vanderbilt have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1941; Vanderbilt leads the series 2–1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Vanderbilt 2–1. Share
2029 at Vanderbilt. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).
- Purdue wins
- 1
- Vanderbilt wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1941
- Longest streak
- 2 Vanderbilt
- Current streak
- 1 Purdue
- Last 10 meetings
- Vanderbilt 2–1
- Most recent
- 2019
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 15.7 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Purdue
- 1–1 Purdue’s record at home
- At Vanderbilt
- 1–0 Vanderbilt’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 2
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
Biggest days
| Elijah Sindelar Purdue | 34 of 52, 509 yards, 5 TD, 1 INT | 2019 Passing | |
| Rondale Moore Purdue | 13 catches, 220 yards, 1 TD | 2019 Receiving |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).
From the newspapers
1941 · The Daily Alaska empire, Sep 29, 1941
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 7, 2019 | Purdue 42, Vanderbilt 24 | at Purdue | ||
| Oct 3, 1942 | Vanderbilt 26, Purdue 0 | at Vanderbilt | ||
| Sep 27, 1941 | Vanderbilt 3, Purdue 0 | at Purdue |
Every game is listed as played on the field.