Colorado vs. Texas

Colorado and Texas have 19 meetings on file, the first in 1940; Texas leads the series 12–⁠7 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Texas 8–⁠2, and Texas has won the last 6.

Colorado wins
7
Texas wins
12
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1940
Longest streak
6 Colorado
Current streak
6 Texas
Last 10 meetings
Texas 8–⁠2
Most recent
2020

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s0–⁠3
1970s0–⁠1
1980s1–⁠0
1990s5–⁠0
2000s1–⁠7
2020s0–⁠1
Both ranked
5 meetings: Colorado 3, Texas 2; 2 both in the top 10
Average margin
24.9 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Colorado
3–⁠4 Colorado’s record at home
At Texas
5–⁠3 Texas’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠3 Colorado first
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Colorado’s biggest win1993: Colorado 36, Texas 14by 22 points
  2. Texas’s biggest win1946: Texas 76, Colorado 0by 76 points
  3. Ranked showdown2001: Colorado 39, Texas 37No. 9 Colorado at No. 3 Texas
  4. Ranked showdown1975: Texas 38, Colorado 21No. 10 Colorado at No. 9 Texas
  5. Ranked showdown1994: Colorado 34, Texas 31No. 5 Colorado at No. 16 Texas
  6. Ranked showdown2005: Texas 42, Colorado 17No. 24 Colorado at No. 2 Texas

Coach against coach

YearsColoradoSeriesTexas
2000–⁠2005Gary Barnett1–⁠5Mack Brown

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Colorado’s side (Barnett 1–⁠5 against Brown). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Colorado and Texas, 1940 on130015001700194019501960197019801990200020102020

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

Named most valuable

Bijan Robinson Texas2020
DeMarvion Overshown Texas2020
Vince Young2005

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1946 game: I N R ILLS IN GRID GAMES ON SATURDAY.

    1946 · The Daily Alaska empire, Sep 30, 1946

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.

Photos

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).

Every game

Dec 29, 202021Texas 55, Colorado 23AlamodomeAlamo Bowl
Oct 10, 20092Texas 38, Colorado 14at Texas
Oct 4, 20085Texas 38, Colorado 14at Colorado
Dec 3, 20052Texas 70, Colorado 3Neutral siteBig 12 Championship Game
Oct 15, 20052Texas 42, 24Colorado 17at Texas
Oct 30, 20048Texas 31, Colorado 7at Colorado
Dec 1, 20019Colorado 39, 3Texas 37Neutral siteBig 12 Championship Game
Oct 20, 2001Texas 41, Colorado 7at Texas
Oct 14, 200025Texas 28, Colorado 14at Colorado
Oct 25, 1997Colorado 47, Texas 30at Texas
Oct 26, 19968Colorado 28, Texas 24at Colorado
Oct 1, 19945Colorado 34, 16Texas 31at Texas
Sep 4, 199311Colorado 36, Texas 14at Colorado
Sep 22, 199020Colorado 29, 22Texas 22at Texas
Sep 4, 198914Colorado 27, Texas 6at Colorado
Dec 27, 19759Texas 38, 10Colorado 21Neutral siteAstro-Bluebonnet Bowl
Sep 28, 1946Texas 76, Colorado 0at Texas
Sep 27, 1941Texas 34, Colorado 6at Colorado
Sep 28, 1940Texas 39, Colorado 7at Texas

Every game is listed as played on the field.