Air Force vs. Colorado

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Air Force’s biggest win2022: Air Force 41, Colorado 10by 31 points
2. Colorado’s biggest win1971: Colorado 53, Air Force 17by 36 points
3. Upset1960: Air Force 16, Colorado 6Air Force had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1970: Colorado 49, Air Force 19Colorado had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Air Force’s side (Martin 1–⁠2 against Grandelius). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1962 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 25, 1962

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Air Force vs. Colorado State63 meetings, Air Force 40–⁠22–⁠1
• Air Force vs. Wyoming63 meetings, Air Force 32–⁠28–⁠3
• Air Force vs. Army60 meetings, Air Force 38–⁠21–⁠1
• Air Force vs. Navy59 meetings, Air Force 35–⁠24
• Colorado vs. Colorado State88 meetings, Colorado 64–⁠22–⁠2
• Colorado vs. Missouri75 meetings, Colorado 31–⁠41–⁠3
• Colorado vs. Utah73 meetings, Colorado 33–⁠37–⁠3
• Colorado vs. Nebraska72 meetings, Colorado 21–⁠49–⁠2