Nevada vs. Utah

Nevada and Utah have 9 meetings on file, the first in 1920; the series is tied 4–⁠4–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 9 meetings it’s even at 4–⁠4.

Scheduled 2028 at Utah. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).

Nevada wins
4
Utah wins
4
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1920
Longest streak
3 Utah
Current streak
1 Nevada
Last 10 meetings
even at 4–⁠4
Most recent
1945

The series at a glance

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

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Nevada’s biggest win1921: Nevada 28, Utah 7by 21 points
  2. Utah’s biggest win1929: Utah 31, Nevada 0by 31 points
  3. Upset1943: Nevada 27, Utah 19Nevada had a 21% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset1945: Nevada 33, Utah 14Nevada had a 28% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsNevadaSeriesUtah
1943–⁠1945Jim Aiken2–⁠1Ike Armstrong

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Nevada and Utah, 1920 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 1932 game: FOOT BALL. RESULTS&

    1932 · The Daily Alaska empire, Oct 10, 1932

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 29, 1945Nevada 33, Utah 14at Utah
Oct 28, 1944Utah 19, Nevada 14at Nevada
Oct 16, 1943Nevada 27, Utah 19at Utah
Oct 8, 1932Nevada 6, Utah 6at Nevada
Sep 27, 1930Utah 20, Nevada 7at Nevada
Oct 5, 1929Utah 31, Nevada 0at Utah
Oct 6, 1928Utah 32, Nevada 7at Nevada
Nov 5, 1921Nevada 28, Utah 7at Nevada
Oct 30, 1920Nevada 14, Utah 7at Utah

Every game is listed as played on the field.