Fresno State vs. Idaho

Fresno State and Idaho have 16 meetings on file, the first in 1946; Fresno State leads the series 12–⁠4 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Fresno State 10–⁠0, and Fresno State has won the last 11.

Fresno State wins
12
Idaho wins
4
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1946
Longest streak
11 Fresno State
Current streak
11 Fresno State
Last 10 meetings
Fresno State 10–⁠0
Most recent
2018

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s1–⁠0
1950s0–⁠2
1960s0–⁠2
1970s2–⁠0
2000s5–⁠0
2010s4–⁠0
Average margin
21.3 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Fresno State
6–⁠2 Fresno State’s record at home
At Idaho
2–⁠6 Idaho’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Fresno State’s biggest win2018: Fresno State 79, Idaho 13by 66 points
  2. Idaho’s biggest win1963: Idaho 32, Fresno State 8by 24 points

Coach against coach

YearsFresno StateSeriesIdaho
2007–⁠2011Pat Hill5–⁠0Robb Akey

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Fresno State’s side (Hill 5–⁠0 against Akey). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Fresno State and Idaho, 1946 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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

Biggest days

Davante Adams Fresno State16 catches, 185 yards, 3 TD2013 Receiving

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

From the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1946 game: Sport Briefs

    1946 · The Daily Alaska empire, Nov 29, 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.

Every game

Sep 1, 2018Fresno State 79, Idaho 13at Fresno State
Oct 5, 201323Fresno State 61, Idaho 14at Idaho
Sep 24, 2011Fresno State 48, Idaho 24at Idaho
Nov 27, 2010Fresno State 23, Idaho 20at Fresno State
Nov 7, 2009Fresno State 31, Idaho 21at Idaho
Oct 11, 2008Fresno State 45, Idaho 32at Fresno State
Oct 13, 2007Fresno State 37, Idaho 24at Idaho
Nov 18, 2006Fresno State 34, Idaho 0at Fresno State
Oct 22, 200524Fresno State 40, Idaho 10at Idaho
Sep 8, 1979Fresno State 30, Idaho 10at Fresno State
Nov 18, 1978Fresno State 41, Idaho 28at Idaho
Sep 23, 1967Idaho 30, Fresno State 14at Fresno State
Sep 21, 1963Idaho 32, Fresno State 8at Idaho
Oct 26, 1957Idaho 20, Fresno State 6at Idaho
Nov 3, 1956Idaho 24, Fresno State 12at Fresno State
Nov 28, 1946Fresno State 13, Idaho 12at Fresno State

Every game is listed as played on the field.