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. Share
- 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
- 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
- BYU’s biggest win2012: BYU 52, Idaho 13by 39 points
- Idaho’s biggest win1955: Idaho 49, BYU 6by 43 points
Both programs through the years
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

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, 2012 | BYU 52, Idaho 13 | at BYU | ||
| Nov 12, 2011 | BYU 42, Idaho 7 | at BYU | ||
| Nov 11, 1955 | Idaho 49, BYU 6 | at BYU | ||
| Nov 20, 1954 | Idaho 7, BYU 0 | at Idaho | ||
| Oct 10, 1953 | BYU 20, Idaho 14 | at Idaho |
Every game is listed as played on the field.