Baylor vs. Utah State

Baylor and Utah State have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1961; Baylor leads the series 3–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Baylor 3–⁠0, and Baylor has won the last 3.

Baylor wins
3
Utah State wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1961
Longest streak
3 Baylor
Current streak
3 Baylor
Last 10 meetings
Baylor 3–⁠0
Most recent
1993

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1960s1–⁠0
1990s2–⁠0
Average margin
18 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Baylor
1–⁠0 Baylor’s record at home
At Utah State
0–⁠1 Utah State’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0 Baylor first

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Baylor and Utah State, 1961 on130015001700197019801990200020102020

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

Ronnie Bull Baylor1961

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

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1961 game: Baylor Topples Utah State; Miscues Mar Gotham Bowl

    1961 · Evening star, Dec 10, 1961

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

Sep 18, 1993Baylor 28, Utah State 24at Utah State
Sep 19, 1992Baylor 45, Utah State 10at Baylor
Dec 9, 1961Baylor 24, Utah State 9Neutral siteGotham Bowl

Every game is listed as played on the field.