Skyline

A former conference: eight schools on file. Our membership records under this name start in 1948; its titles go back further. 1961 champions: Utah State and Wyoming.

1961 standings

TeamConf.OverallAPEloLast 5
Utah State5–⁠0–⁠19–⁠1–⁠1101644WWWWL
Wyoming5–⁠0–⁠16–⁠1–⁠21667WWWLW
New Mexico3–⁠37–⁠41511WLWWW
Utah3–⁠36–⁠41548WLLWL
Montana2–⁠42–⁠61364LLWLL
BYU2–⁠42–⁠81307LLWLL
Colorado State0–⁠60–⁠101253LLLLL

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

Skyline teams are 12–⁠14–⁠1 outside the conference.

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

All-Skyline teams, 1959

The newest teams on file are from 1959.

First team 11

PositionPlayerSchool
EndDon BlackNew MexicoNew Mexico
John LandsMontanaMontana
TackleLen RohdeUtah StateUtah State
Ron StehouwerColorado StateColorado State
GuardLeonard KuczewskiWyomingWyoming
Lonnie DennisBYUBYU
CenterJim EifridColorado StateColorado State
QuarterbackJim WaldenWyomingWyoming
HalfbackLarry WilsonUtahUtah
Jerry HillWyomingWyoming
FullbackDon PerkinsNew MexicoNew Mexico

Second team 11

PositionPlayerSchool
EndMarty HamiltonWyomingWyoming
Duane KnoxColorado StateColorado State
TackleJohn KapeleBYUBYU
Bob CooganUtahUtah
GuardPat SmythWyomingWyoming
John GarberNew MexicoNew Mexico
CenterMike ConnellyUtah StateUtah State
QuarterbackKen VierraUtahUtah
HalfbackWayne SchneiderColorado StateColorado State
Bill BrownNew MexicoNew Mexico
FullbackMonk BaileyUtahUtah

From Wikipedia’s 1959 all-conference team article (CC BY-SA): each player on the best team any selector named him to (the coaches’, the media’s or the AP’s), in the article’s order. Players link to their pages where we could match them.

Champions

Most titles

Wyoming7last 1961
Utah5last 1957
Utah State3last 1961
Colorado State1last 1955

By year

1961Utah State, Wyoming (shared)
1960Utah State, Wyoming (shared)
1959Wyoming
1958Wyoming
1957Utah
1956Wyoming
1955Colorado State
1953Utah
1952Utah
1951Utah
1950Wyoming
1949Wyoming
2 earlier seasons, back to 1946
1948Utah
1946Utah 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. BYU1948–⁠1961
  2. Colorado State1948–⁠1961
  3. Denver1948–⁠1960
  4. Utah1948–⁠1961
  5. Utah State1948–⁠1961
  6. Wyoming1948–⁠1961
  7. Montana1951–⁠1961
  8. New Mexico1951–⁠1961
Every school and its years (8)

Members

Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1948; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Who came and went

SeasonSchoolMoveAnnounced
1962BYULeft for WACSource
1962MontanaLeft to play as an independentSource
1962New MexicoLeft for WACSource
1962UtahLeft for WACSource
1962Utah StateLeft to play as an independentSource
1962WyomingLeft for WACSource

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 105 team-seasons from 1948. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.

Honors while members

Consensus All-Americans 1

Utah State1

NFL first-round picks 3

Colorado State1
Utah1
Utah State1

Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 1948); 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.