Colorado vs. Wyoming

Colorado and Wyoming have 27 meetings on file, the first in 1905; Colorado leads the series 24–⁠2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Colorado 9–⁠1, and Colorado has won the last 4.

Colorado wins
24
Wyoming wins
2
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1905
Longest streak
10 Colorado
Current streak
4 Colorado
Last 10 meetings
Colorado 9–⁠1
Most recent
2025

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
1910s6–⁠0
1920s3–⁠0–⁠1
1930s3–⁠1
1940s5–⁠0
1970s2–⁠0
1980s0–⁠1
1990s2–⁠0
2000s1–⁠0
2020s1–⁠0
Average margin
22.4 points; 5 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Colorado
18–⁠2–⁠1 Colorado’s record at home
At Wyoming
0–⁠6 Wyoming’s record at home
Shutouts
11

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Colorado’s biggest win1912: Colorado 75, Wyoming 0by 75 points
  2. Wyoming’s biggest win1982: Wyoming 24, Colorado 10by 14 points
  3. Upset1935: Wyoming 6, Colorado 0Wyoming had a 20% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsColoradoSeriesWyoming
1941–⁠1946Jim Yeager3–⁠0Bunny Oakes

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Colorado’s side (Yeager 3–⁠0 against Oakes). 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 Wyoming, 1905 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 The Indianapolis times's story of the 1923 game: Saturday Football

    1923 · The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], Nov 26, 1923

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1933 game: FOOT BALL. RESULTSG

    1933 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 30, 1933

  • The Detroit evening times's story of the 1941 game

    1941 · Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, Oct 26, 1941

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1946 game: FOOTBALL . SCORES

    1946 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 14, 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.

On television

2025ESPN1.3 million viewers

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

Every game

Sep 20, 2025Colorado 37, Wyoming 20at Colorado
Sep 19, 2009Colorado 24, Wyoming 0at Colorado
Sep 27, 199716Colorado 20, Wyoming 19at Colorado
Sep 7, 199112Colorado 30, Wyoming 13at Colorado
Sep 25, 1982Wyoming 24, Colorado 10at Colorado
Sep 20, 1975Colorado 27, Wyoming 10at Colorado
Sep 18, 197112Colorado 56, Wyoming 13at Colorado
Nov 15, 1947Colorado 21, Wyoming 6at Colorado
Oct 12, 1946Colorado 20, Wyoming 0at Wyoming
Oct 31, 1942Colorado 28, Wyoming 7at Colorado
Oct 25, 1941Colorado 27, Wyoming 0at Colorado
Oct 26, 1940Colorado 62, Wyoming 0at Colorado
Oct 28, 1939Colorado 27, Wyoming 7at Wyoming
Oct 29, 1938Colorado 20, Wyoming 6at Colorado
Nov 23, 1935Wyoming 6, Colorado 0at Colorado
Oct 28, 1933Colorado 40, Wyoming 12at Colorado
Oct 16, 1926Colorado 13, Wyoming 13at Colorado
Oct 25, 1924Colorado 21, Wyoming 0at Wyoming
Nov 24, 1923Colorado 20, Wyoming 3at Colorado
Oct 23, 1920Colorado 7, Wyoming 0at Wyoming
Oct 7, 1916Colorado 16, Wyoming 10at Wyoming
Oct 2, 1915Colorado 30, Wyoming 0at Colorado
Oct 4, 1913Colorado 7, Wyoming 0at Wyoming
Oct 26, 1912Colorado 75, Wyoming 0at Colorado
Oct 28, 1911Colorado 18, Wyoming 3at Colorado
Oct 22, 1910Colorado 16, Wyoming 3at Colorado
Oct 21, 1905Colorado 69, Wyoming 0at Colorado

Every game is listed as played on the field.