Idaho vs. Nevada

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

1. Idaho’s biggest win2023: Idaho 33, Nevada 6by 27 points
2. Nevada’s biggest win2011: Nevada 56, Idaho 3by 53 points
3. Upset1936: Nevada 7, Idaho 6Nevada had a 21% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1996: Idaho 24, Nevada 15Idaho had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1998: Nevada 58, Idaho 23Nevada had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Idaho’s side (Tormey 2–⁠2 against Tisdel). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

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

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  1935 · Evening star, Nov 24, 1935

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  1936 · Imperial Valley press, California, Oct 26, 1936

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  1940 · Imperial Valley press, Nov 18, 1940

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Idaho vs. Washington State74 meetings, Idaho 8–⁠64–⁠2
• Idaho vs. Montana62 meetings, Idaho 39–⁠22–⁠1
• Idaho vs. Oregon50 meetings, Idaho 3–⁠44–⁠3
• Idaho vs. Oregon State41 meetings, Idaho 7–⁠34
• Nevada vs. UNLV42 meetings, Nevada 25–⁠17
• Nevada vs. Fresno State33 meetings, Nevada 14–⁠19
• Nevada vs. San José State29 meetings, Nevada 21–⁠8
• Nevada vs. Utah State27 meetings, Nevada 18–⁠9