Montana vs. Utah

Montana and Utah have 10 meetings on file, the first in 1905; Utah leads the series 10–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Utah 10–⁠0, and Utah has won the last 10.

Montana wins
0
Utah wins
10
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1905
Longest streak
10 Utah
Current streak
10 Utah
Last 10 meetings
Utah 10–⁠0
Most recent
1965

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠2
1910s0–⁠1
1950s0–⁠4
1960s0–⁠3
Average margin
20.2 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Montana
0–⁠3 Montana’s record at home
At Utah
7–⁠0 Utah’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Utah’s biggest win1906: Utah 42, Montana 0by 42 points

Coach against coach

YearsMontanaSeriesUtah
1958–⁠1961Ray Jenkins0–⁠3Ray Nagel

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Montana’s side (Jenkins 0–⁠3 against Nagel). 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 and Utah, 1905 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 Birmingham age-herald's story of the 1912 game: FOOTBALL RESULTS

    1912 · The Birmingham age-herald, Nov 3, 1912

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 11, 1965Utah 28, Montana 13at Utah
Oct 21, 1961Utah 24, Montana 12at Montana
Nov 12, 1960Utah 16, Montana 6at Utah
Sep 20, 1958Utah 20, Montana 6at Utah
Sep 21, 1957Utah 32, Montana 13at Utah
Sep 29, 1956Utah 26, Montana 6at Utah
Nov 20, 1954Utah 41, Montana 20at Montana
Nov 2, 1912Utah 10, Montana 3at Utah
Nov 3, 1906Utah 42, Montana 0at Utah
Oct 14, 1905Utah 42, Montana 0at Montana

Every game is listed as played on the field.