Baylor vs. Colorado

Baylor and Colorado have 18 meetings on file, the first in 1959; Colorado leads the series 10–⁠8 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Colorado 6–⁠4.

Baylor wins
8
Colorado wins
10
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1959
Longest streak
5 Colorado
Current streak
1 Baylor
Last 10 meetings
Colorado 6–⁠4
Most recent
2026

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s1–⁠0
1960s1–⁠2
1970s0–⁠1
1980s1–⁠0
1990s1–⁠4
2000s2–⁠2
2010s1–⁠0
2020s1–⁠1
Both ranked
2 meetings: Baylor 1, Colorado 1
Average margin
15.1 points; 7 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Baylor
3–⁠4 Baylor’s record at home
At Colorado
6–⁠4 Colorado’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0 Baylor first
Shutouts
3

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Baylor’s biggest win1960: Baylor 26, Colorado 0by 26 points
  2. Colorado’s biggest win1999: Colorado 37, Baylor 0by 37 points
  3. Upset1991: Baylor 16, Colorado 14Baylor had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset2003: Baylor 42, Colorado 30Baylor had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  5. Upset1966: Colorado 13, Baylor 7Colorado had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  6. Ranked showdown1993: Colorado 45, Baylor 21No. 24 Baylor at No. 10 Colorado
  7. Ranked showdown1991: Baylor 16, Colorado 14No. 23 Baylor at No. 12 Colorado

Coach against coach

YearsBaylorSeriesColorado
1986–⁠1992Grant Teaff2–⁠1Bill McCartney

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Baylor and Colorado, 1959 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

Ray Berry Baylor1986

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1960 game: FOOTBALL SCORES

    1960 · Evening star, Sep 25, 1960

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.

On television

2026ESPN20.6 million viewers

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game

Sep 26, 2026Baylor 23, Colorado 13at Baylor
Sep 21, 2024Colorado 38, Baylor 31at Colorado
Oct 16, 2010Baylor 31, Colorado 25at Colorado
Oct 6, 2007Colorado 43, Baylor 23at Baylor
Oct 7, 2006Baylor 34, Colorado 31at Colorado
Oct 4, 2003Baylor 42, Colorado 30at Baylor
Oct 19, 200223Colorado 34, Baylor 0at Colorado
Nov 13, 1999Colorado 37, Baylor 0at Baylor
Sep 26, 199815Colorado 18, Baylor 16at Colorado
Sep 11, 199310Colorado 45, 24Baylor 21at Colorado
Sep 12, 199212Colorado 57, Baylor 38at Baylor
Sep 14, 199123Baylor 16, 12Colorado 14at Colorado
Dec 31, 198614Baylor 21, Colorado 9Neutral siteBluebonnet Bowl
Sep 29, 1973Colorado 52, Baylor 28at Colorado
Sep 16, 196710Colorado 27, Baylor 7at Colorado
Sep 24, 1966Colorado 13, 10Baylor 7at Baylor
Sep 24, 1960Baylor 26, Colorado 0at Baylor
Sep 26, 1959Baylor 15, Colorado 7at Colorado

Every game is listed as played on the field.