Colorado vs. Michigan State
Colorado and Michigan State have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1951; Michigan State leads the series 3–0 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Michigan State 3–0, and Michigan State has won the last 3. Share
- Colorado wins
- 0
- Michigan State wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1951
- Longest streak
- 3 Michigan State
- Current streak
- 3 Michigan State
- Last 10 meetings
- Michigan State 3–0
- Most recent
- 1984
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 15.7 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Colorado
- 0–1 Colorado’s record at home
- At Michigan State
- 2–0 Michigan State’s record at home
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
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
1951 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 25, 1951
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 8, 1984 | Michigan State 24, Colorado 21 | at Colorado | ||
| Sep 10, 1983 | Michigan State 23, Colorado 17 | at Michigan State | ||
| Nov 24, 1951 | 2Michigan State 45, Colorado 7 | at Michigan State |
Every game is listed as played on the field.