Iowa vs. Wyoming

Iowa and Wyoming have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1953; Iowa leads the series 3–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Iowa 3–⁠0, and Iowa has won the last 3.

Iowa wins
3
Wyoming wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1953
Longest streak
3 Iowa
Current streak
3 Iowa
Last 10 meetings
Iowa 3–⁠0
Most recent
2017

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s1–⁠0
1980s1–⁠0
2010s1–⁠0
Average margin
12 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Iowa
2–⁠0 Iowa’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0 Iowa first

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 Iowa and Wyoming, 1953 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.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Josey Jewell Iowa14 tackles, 2 sacks, 2.5 for loss2017 Defense

Named most valuable

Craig Burnett Wyoming1987
Anthony Wright Iowa1987

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1953 game: Iowa Breaks AWAY From Wyoming, 21-7

    1953 · Evening star, Oct 18, 1953

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 2, 2017Iowa 24, Wyoming 3at Iowa
Dec 30, 198718Iowa 20, Wyoming 19Neutral siteHoliday Bowl
Oct 17, 1953Iowa 21, Wyoming 7at Iowa

Every game is listed as played on the field.