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.

Scheduled 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

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s0–⁠1
1970s1–⁠0
2020s0–⁠1
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

End-of-season Elo ratings of Colorado and Northwestern, 1951 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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 Evening star's story of the 1951 game: Northwestern Beats Colorado, IS 10 IA

    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

2026FOX1.0 million viewers

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game

Sep 19, 2026Northwestern 41, Colorado 7at Northwestern
Sep 30, 197816Colorado 55, Northwestern 7at Colorado
Sep 29, 1951Northwestern 35, Colorado 14at Northwestern

Every game is listed as played on the field.