Colorado vs. Missouri
Colorado and Missouri have 75 meetings on file, the first in 1930; Missouri leads the series 41–31–3 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Missouri 6–4, and Missouri has won the last 5. Share
2030 at Missouri Sept. 7; 2031 at Colorado Aug. 30. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).
- Colorado wins
- 31
- Missouri wins
- 41
- Ties
- 3
- Earliest on file
- 1930
- Longest streak
- 12 Colorado
- Current streak
- 5 Missouri
- Last 10 meetings
- Missouri 6–4
- Most recent
- 2010
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 3–3–1 | ||||||||||
| 1940s | 0–7 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 2–6–2 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 4–6 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 4–6 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 5–5 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 8–2 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 5–5 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 0–1 |
- Both ranked
- 3 meetings: Colorado 1, Missouri 2
- Average margin
- 16.3 points; 22 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Colorado
- 20–15–1 Colorado’s record at home
- At Missouri
- 26–11–2 Missouri’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 10
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Colorado’s biggest win1991: Colorado 55, Missouri 7by 48 points
- Missouri’s biggest win2008: Missouri 58, Colorado 0by 58 points
- Upset1955: Missouri 20, Colorado 12Missouri had a 16% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1972: Missouri 20, Colorado 17Missouri had a 21% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1997: Missouri 41, Colorado 31Missouri had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Ranked showdown1960: Missouri 16, Colorado 6No. 18 Colorado at No. 2 Missouri
- Ranked showdown1975: Colorado 31, Missouri 20No. 10 Missouri at No. 12 Colorado
- Ranked showdown1976: Missouri 16, Colorado 7No. 14 Colorado at No. 16 Missouri
Coach against coach
| Years | Colorado | Series | Missouri |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1935–1939 | Bunny Oakes | 1–3 | Don Faurot |
| 1941–1947 | Jim Yeager | 0–4 | Don Faurot |
| 1948–1956 | Dallas Ward | 1–6–2 | Don Faurot |
| 1959–1961 | Everett Grandelius | 2–1 | Dan Devine |
| 1963–1970 | Eddie Crowder | 3–5 | Dan Devine |
| 1971–1973 | Eddie Crowder | 2–1 | Al Onofrio |
| 1974–1977 | Bill Mallory | 1–3 | Al Onofrio |
| 1979–1981 | Chuck Fairbanks | 0–3 | Warren Powers |
| 1982–1984 | Bill McCartney | 0–3 | Warren Powers |
| 1985–1988 | Bill McCartney | 4–0 | Woody Widenhofer |
| 1989–1993 | Bill McCartney | 5–0 | Bob Stull |
| 1995–1998 | Rick Neuheisel | 2–2 | Larry Smith |
| 2001–2005 | Gary Barnett | 4–1 | Gary Pinkel |
| 2006–2010 | Dan Hawkins | 0–5 | Gary Pinkel |
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Colorado’s side (Oakes 1–3 against Faurot). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
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.
Stars of the series
Biggest days
| Chase Daniel Missouri | 26 of 44, 421 yards, 5 TD, 1 INT | 2007 Passing |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).
From the newspapers
1934 · The Daily Alaska empire, Juneau, Alaska, Oct 8, 1934
1935 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 13, 1935
1939 · The Daily Alaska empire, Oct 2, 1939
1940 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 10, 1940
1941 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 5, 1941
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
Every game is listed as played on the field.