Utah at New Mexico

Saturday, November 10, 1945

Utah beat New Mexico 21–⁠20. It was their second meeting; after it, Utah led the series 2–⁠0.

AwayUtah4–⁠4 in 1945
21
HomeNew Mexico6–⁠1–⁠1 in 1945
20

FinalHigh 56°F, low 24°FAttendance 7,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story: IL College. Unbeaten After Saturday Tits

    The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, November 12, 1945, page 2

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    IL College. Unbeaten After Saturday Tits NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-tR-Only u college football teams remained unbeaten and united today as Columbia, Temple and New Mex leo went down to defeat for the first time Saturday. Columbia took 1927 licking from Pennsylvania, Temple was blanked 27–⁠0 by Penn State and New Mexico was nosed out by Utah, 21–⁠20. The unbeaten and united teams:

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 text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

New Mexico 61% to win. Utah won as Elo’s underdog.

Utah leads 33–⁠17–⁠2 in 52 meetings, counting the 50 since this game.

Recent meetings
2010Utah 56, New Mexico 14
2009Utah 45, New Mexico 14
2008Utah 13, New Mexico 10
2007Utah 28, New Mexico 10
2006New Mexico 34, Utah 31
2005New Mexico 31, Utah 27

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