Kansas vs. Wyoming

Kansas and Wyoming have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1961; Kansas leads the series 4–⁠1–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Kansas 4–⁠1, and Kansas has won the last 3.

Kansas wins
4
Wyoming wins
1
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1961
Longest streak
3 Kansas
Current streak
3 Kansas
Last 10 meetings
Kansas 4–⁠1
Most recent
2003

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1960s1–⁠1–⁠1
1970s1–⁠0
2000s2–⁠0
Average margin
10.8 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Kansas
2–⁠1–⁠1 Kansas’s record at home
At Wyoming
0–⁠2 Wyoming’s record at home

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Kansas’s biggest win1972: Kansas 52, Wyoming 14by 38 points
  2. Wyoming’s biggest win1964: Wyoming 17, Kansas 14by 3 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Kansas and Wyoming, 1961 on130015001700197019801990200020102020

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 Evening star's story of the 1961 game: Kansas Interception Ties Wyoming, sc

    1961 · Evening star, Oct 1, 1961

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 13, 2003Kansas 42, Wyoming 35at Wyoming
Nov 24, 2001Kansas 27, Wyoming 14at Kansas
Sep 23, 1972Kansas 52, Wyoming 14at Kansas
Oct 3, 1964Wyoming 17, Kansas 14at Kansas
Oct 5, 1963Kansas 25, Wyoming 21at Wyoming
Sep 30, 1961Kansas 6, Wyoming 6at Kansas

Every game is listed as played on the field.