BYU vs. New Mexico

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

1. BYU’s biggest win1988: BYU 65, New Mexico 0by 65 points
2. New Mexico’s biggest win1970: New Mexico 51, BYU 8by 43 points
3. Upset2005: BYU 27, New Mexico 24BYU had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1962: BYU 27, New Mexico 0BYU had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1980: New Mexico 25, BYU 21New Mexico had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from BYU’s side (Atkinson 0–⁠2–⁠1 against Titchenal). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1955 · Evening star, Nov 27, 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 is listed as played on the field.

• BYU vs. Utah97 meetings, BYU 34–⁠59–⁠4
• BYU vs. Utah State91 meetings, BYU 51–⁠37–⁠3
• BYU vs. Wyoming80 meetings, BYU 47–⁠30–⁠3
• BYU vs. Colorado State70 meetings, BYU 40–⁠27–⁠3
• New Mexico vs. New Mexico State92 meetings, New Mexico 66–⁠24–⁠2
• New Mexico vs. Wyoming77 meetings, New Mexico 36–⁠41
• New Mexico vs. Colorado State71 meetings, New Mexico 26–⁠45
• New Mexico vs. UTEP71 meetings, New Mexico 38–⁠31–⁠2