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Bates vs. Colby

Bates and Colby first met in 1901 and have played 7 times; Colby leads the series 4–⁠3. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Colby 4–⁠3, and Colby has won the last 4.

Bates wins
3
Colby wins
4
Ties
0
First meeting
1901
Longest streak
4 Colby
Current streak
4 Colby
Last 10 meetings
Colby 4–⁠3
Most recent
2025

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s3–⁠0
2020s0–⁠4
Average margin
14 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Bates
2–⁠2 Bates’s record at home
At Colby
2–⁠1 Colby’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Bates’s biggest win1905: Bates 28, Colby 0by 28 points
  2. Colby’s biggest win2022: Colby 38, Bates 17by 21 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Bates and Colby, 1901 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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.

From the newspapers

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story of the 1904 game: RATES. BATES CELEBRATES The Victory Won from Colby, With Great Time at Lewiston.

    1904 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Nov 7, 1904

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

Oct 31, 2026Bates at Colby upcomingat Colby
Oct 4, 2025Colby 13, Bates 6at Bates
Oct 5, 2024Colby 28, Bates 26at Colby
Sep 30, 2023Colby 30, Bates 24at Bates
Oct 1, 2022Colby 38, Bates 17at Colby
Oct 4, 1905Bates 28, Colby 0at Colby
Nov 5, 1904Bates 23, Colby 0at Bates
Nov 2, 1901Bates 17, Colby 6at Bates

Every game is listed as played on the field.