Colorado vs. Northwestern
Colorado and Northwestern have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1951; Northwestern leads the series 2–1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Northwestern 2–1. Share
2027 at Colorado Sept. 11. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).
- Colorado wins
- 1
- Northwestern wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1951
- Longest streak
- 1 Northwestern
- Current streak
- 1 Northwestern
- Last 10 meetings
- Northwestern 2–1
- Most recent
- 2026
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 34.3 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Colorado
- 1–0 Colorado’s record at home
- At Northwestern
- 2–0 Northwestern’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, Sep 30, 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.
On television
| 2026 | FOX | 1.0 million viewers |
Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.
Every game
| Sep 19, 2026 | Northwestern 41, Colorado 7 | at Northwestern | ||
| Sep 30, 1978 | 16Colorado 55, Northwestern 7 | at Colorado | ||
| Sep 29, 1951 | Northwestern 35, Colorado 14 | at Northwestern |
Every game is listed as played on the field.