Colorado vs. New Mexico

Colorado and New Mexico have 9 meetings on file, the first in 1909; Colorado leads the series 6–⁠3 in the games on file. Over the last 9 meetings it’s Colorado 6–⁠3.

Colorado wins
6
New Mexico wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1909
Longest streak
4 Colorado
Current streak
1 Colorado
Last 10 meetings
Colorado 6–⁠3
Most recent
1977

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s1–⁠0
1920s1–⁠0
1940s3–⁠3
1970s1–⁠0
Average margin
17.1 points; 5 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Colorado
5–⁠1 Colorado’s record at home
At New Mexico
2–⁠0 New Mexico’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0 Colorado first
Shutouts
4

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Colorado’s biggest win1909: Colorado 53, New Mexico 0by 53 points
  2. New Mexico’s biggest win1945: New Mexico 12, Colorado 6by 6 points
  3. Upset1949: New Mexico 17, Colorado 15New Mexico had a 35% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset1948: New Mexico 9, Colorado 6New Mexico had a 35% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Colorado and New Mexico, 1909 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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 Albuquerque morning journal's story of the 1922 game: FOOTBALL FORECASTS IN ROCKY MOUNTAIN CONFERENCE UPSET

    1922 · Albuquerque morning journal, Albuquerque, N.M., Oct 16, 1922

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 24, 19778Colorado 42, New Mexico 7at Colorado
Nov 12, 1949New Mexico 17, Colorado 15at New Mexico
Sep 25, 1948New Mexico 9, Colorado 6at Colorado
Oct 26, 1946Colorado 14, New Mexico 13at Colorado
Nov 3, 1945New Mexico 12, Colorado 6at New Mexico
Nov 4, 1944Colorado 39, New Mexico 0Neutral site
Oct 17, 1942Colorado 12, New Mexico 0at Colorado
Oct 14, 1922Colorado 3, New Mexico 0at Colorado
Nov 6, 1909Colorado 53, New Mexico 0at Colorado

Every game is listed as played on the field.