BYU vs. Idaho

BYU and Idaho first met in 1953 and have played 5 times; BYU leads the series 3–⁠2. Over the last 5 meetings it’s BYU 3–⁠2, and BYU has won the last 2.

BYU wins
3
Idaho wins
2
Ties
0
First meeting
1953
Longest streak
2 Idaho
Current streak
2 BYU
Last 10 meetings
BYU 3–⁠2
Most recent
2012

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s1–⁠2
2010s2–⁠0
Average margin
26 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At BYU
2–⁠1 BYU’s record at home
At Idaho
1–⁠1 Idaho’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. BYU’s biggest win2012: BYU 52, Idaho 13by 39 points
  2. Idaho’s biggest win1955: Idaho 49, BYU 6by 43 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of BYU and Idaho, 1953 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.

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1955 game: Miami Uncover. Aerial Game 10 .Ro!ut B|uckneIL

    1955 · Evening star, Nov 12, 1955

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

Nov 10, 2012BYU 52, Idaho 13at BYU
Nov 12, 2011BYU 42, Idaho 7at BYU
Nov 11, 1955Idaho 49, BYU 6at BYU
Nov 20, 1954Idaho 7, BYU 0at Idaho
Oct 10, 1953BYU 20, Idaho 14at Idaho

Every game is listed as played on the field.