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
| Team | Conf. | Overall | AP | Elo | Last 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5–0–1 | 9–1–1 | 10 | 1644 | WWWWL | ||
| 5–0–1 | 6–1–2 | 1667 | WWWLW | |||
| 3–3 | 7–4 | 1511 | WLWWW | |||
| 3–3 | 6–4 | 1548 | WLLWL | |||
| 2–4 | 2–6 | 1364 | LLWLL | |||
| 2–4 | 2–8 | 1307 | LLWLL | |||
| 0–6 | 0–10 | 1253 | LLLLL |
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.
- Independent4–8
- Border Conference4–2
- Big Eight1–0–1
- Mid-American Conference2–0
- ACC1–0
- Big Ten0–1
- Missouri Valley Conference0–1
- Others0–1
- Southwest Conference0–1
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
| Position | Player | School |
|---|---|---|
| End | Don BlackNew Mexico | New Mexico |
| John LandsMontana | Montana | |
| Tackle | Len RohdeUtah State | Utah State |
| Ron StehouwerColorado State | Colorado State | |
| Guard | Leonard KuczewskiWyoming | Wyoming |
| Lonnie DennisBYU | BYU | |
| Center | Jim EifridColorado State | Colorado State |
| Quarterback | Jim WaldenWyoming | Wyoming |
| Halfback | Larry WilsonUtah | Utah |
| Jerry HillWyoming | Wyoming | |
| Fullback | Don PerkinsNew Mexico | New Mexico |
Second team 11
| Position | Player | School |
|---|---|---|
| End | Marty HamiltonWyoming | Wyoming |
| Duane KnoxColorado State | Colorado State | |
| Tackle | John KapeleBYU | BYU |
| Bob CooganUtah | Utah | |
| Guard | Pat SmythWyoming | Wyoming |
| John GarberNew Mexico | New Mexico | |
| Center | Mike ConnellyUtah State | Utah State |
| Quarterback | Ken VierraUtah | Utah |
| Halfback | Wayne SchneiderColorado State | Colorado State |
| Bill BrownNew Mexico | New Mexico | |
| Fullback | Monk BaileyUtah | Utah |
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
| Wyoming | 7 | last 1961 |
| Utah | 5 | last 1957 |
| Utah State | 3 | last 1961 |
| Colorado State | 1 | last 1955 |
By year
| 1961 | Utah State, Wyoming (shared) |
| 1960 | Utah State, Wyoming (shared) |
| 1959 | Wyoming |
| 1958 | Wyoming |
| 1957 | Utah |
| 1956 | Wyoming |
| 1955 | Colorado State |
| 1953 | Utah |
| 1952 | Utah |
| 1951 | Utah |
| 1950 | Wyoming |
| 1949 | Wyoming |
2 earlier seasons, back to 1946
| 1948 | Utah |
| 1946 | Utah 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
Every school and its years (8)
Members
- BYU 1948–1961
- Colorado State 1948–1961
- Montana 1951–1961
- New Mexico 1951–1961
- Utah 1948–1961
- Utah State 1948–1961
- Wyoming 1948–1961
- Denver 1948–1960
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
| Season | School | Move | Announced | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | BYU | Left for WAC | Source | |
| 1962 | Montana | Left to play as an independent | Source | |
| 1962 | New Mexico | Left for WAC | Source | |
| 1962 | Utah | Left for WAC | Source | |
| 1962 | Utah State | Left to play as an independent | Source | |
| 1962 | Wyoming | Left for WAC | Source |
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 State | 1 |
NFL first-round picks 3
| Colorado State | 1 |
| Utah | 1 |
| Utah State | 1 |
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.