Border

A former conference: eight schools on file. Our membership records under this name start in 1931. 1961 champion: Arizona State.

1961 standings

TeamConf.OverallAPEloLast 5
Arizona State3–⁠07–⁠31584WLWWL
West Texas3–⁠16–⁠41463WLWWL
New Mexico State2–⁠15–⁠4–⁠11520LWLLW
UTEP1–⁠33–⁠71319LWLLL
Hardin Simmons0–⁠40–⁠101157LLLLL

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied. AP: the AP poll, final (else the final AP rank). Elo is our own rating, a measure of strength, not a prediction.

Against other conferences, 1961

Border teams are 12–⁠19–⁠1 outside the conference.

The bar is the share of those games won. Games against teams from lower divisions count together.

Champions

Most titles

Texas Tech9last 1955
Arizona State7last 1961
Arizona3last 1941
New Mexico State2last 1960
UTEP1last 1956
New Mexico1last 1938

By year

1961Arizona State
1960New Mexico State
1959Arizona State
1957Arizona State
1956UTEP
1955Texas Tech
1954Texas Tech
1953Texas Tech
1952Arizona State
1951Texas Tech
1949Texas Tech
1948Texas Tech
10 earlier seasons, back to 1931
1947Texas Tech
1942Texas Tech
1941Arizona
1940Arizona State
1939Arizona State
1938New Mexico, New Mexico State (shared)
1937Texas Tech
1936Arizona
1935Arizona
1931Arizona State

Conference titles as each program’s Wikipedia infobox lists them (CC BY-SA), shared titles counted for every co-champion; the conference’s earlier names count as the same conference.

Schools

  1. Arizona1931–⁠19421945–⁠1960
  2. Arizona State1931–⁠19421946–⁠1961
  3. New Mexico1931–⁠1950
  4. New Mexico State1931–⁠19431946–⁠1961
  5. Texas Tech1932–⁠1956
  6. UTEP1935–⁠19421946–⁠1961
  7. Hardin Simmons1941–⁠19421946–⁠1961
  8. West Texas1941–⁠19421944–⁠1961
Every school and its years (8)

Members

Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1931; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Who came and went

SeasonSchoolMoveAnnounced
1962ArizonaLeft for WACSource
1962Arizona StateLeft for WACSource
1962Hardin SimmonsLeft to play as an independentSource
1962New Mexico StateLeft to play as an independentSource
1962West TexasLeft to play as an independentSource

Football moves from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the season is the first one played in the new conference, and the date the one the lists or their sources give for the announcement. SportsDataverse’s football memberships agree with ours in all 192 team-seasons from 1931. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.

Honors while members

NFL first-round picks 2

Arizona1
Texas Tech1

Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 1931); a draft pick counts for the season before the draft. Heisman and All-America lists from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), draft picks from CollegeFootballData.com.