Montana State vs. Utah State

Montana State and Utah State have 26 meetings on file, the first in 1914; Utah State leads the series 19–⁠3–⁠4 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Utah State 9–⁠0, and Utah State has won the last 7.

Montana State wins
3
Utah State wins
19
Ties
4
Earliest on file
1914
Longest streak
8 Utah State
Current streak
7 Utah State
Last 10 meetings
Utah State 9–⁠0
Most recent
1962

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s2–⁠1–⁠2
1920s1–⁠5–⁠1
1930s0–⁠6–⁠1
1940s0–⁠4
1950s0–⁠2
1960s0–⁠1
Average margin
15.4 points; 6 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Montana State
0–⁠6–⁠2 Montana State’s record at home
At Utah State
13–⁠3–⁠2 Utah State’s record at home
Shutouts
6

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Montana State’s biggest win1914: Montana State 52, Utah State 3by 49 points
  2. Utah State’s biggest win1933: Utah State 40, Montana State 6by 34 points
  3. Upset1927: Montana State 13, Utah State 6Montana State had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsMontana StateSeriesUtah State
1922–⁠1927Ott Romney1–⁠2E. Lowell Romney
1928–⁠1935Schubert R. Dyche0–⁠7E. Lowell Romney

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Montana State’s side (Romney 1–⁠2 against Romney). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Montana State and Utah State, 1914 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 Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1947 game: FOOTBALL ! SCORES

    1947 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Nov 3, 1947

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

Oct 6, 1962Utah State 41, Montana State 13at Montana State
Oct 24, 1959Utah State 22, Montana State 13at Utah State
Oct 7, 1950Utah State 34, Montana State 6at Montana State
Nov 12, 1949Utah State 19, Montana State 14at Utah State
Sep 17, 1948Utah State 31, Montana State 6at Utah State
Nov 1, 1947Utah State 28, Montana State 13at Montana State
Oct 12, 1946Utah State 28, Montana State 14at Utah State
Oct 2, 1937Utah State 6, Montana State 6at Utah State
Sep 26, 1936Utah State 12, Montana State 0at Utah State
Sep 21, 1935Utah State 33, Montana State 7at Utah State
Oct 6, 1934Utah State 6, Montana State 0at Utah State
Oct 7, 1933Utah State 40, Montana State 6at Montana State
Oct 1, 1932Utah State 26, Montana State 0at Utah State
Oct 3, 1931Utah State 21, Montana State 6at Utah State
Oct 5, 1929Utah State 9, Montana State 0at Montana State
Nov 17, 1928Utah State 15, Montana State 7at Utah State
Oct 15, 1927Montana State 13, Utah State 6at Utah State
Nov 14, 1925Utah State 10, Montana State 7at Utah State
Oct 13, 1922Utah State 39, Montana State 6at Montana State
Oct 15, 1921Utah State 30, Montana State 7at Utah State
Oct 23, 1920Montana State 0, Utah State 0at Montana State
Oct 25, 1919Utah State 19, Montana State 0at Utah State
Nov 3, 1917Montana State 7, Utah State 7at Montana State
Nov 18, 1916Utah State 17, Montana State 17at Utah State
Nov 13, 1915Montana State 7, Utah State 0at Utah State
Oct 17, 1914Montana State 52, Utah State 3at Utah State

Every game is listed as played on the field.