New Mexico vs. Utah

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

1. New Mexico’s biggest win1971: New Mexico 57, Utah 39by 18 points
2. Utah’s biggest win1999: Utah 52, New Mexico 7by 45 points
3. Upset1970: New Mexico 34, Utah 28New Mexico had a 17% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1992: New Mexico 24, Utah 7New Mexico had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1963: Utah 19, New Mexico 6Utah had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

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

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1938 · The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, Jan 3, 1939

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  1945 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Nov 12, 1945

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 is listed as played on the field.

• New Mexico vs. New Mexico State92 meetings, New Mexico 66–⁠24–⁠2
• New Mexico vs. Wyoming77 meetings, New Mexico 36–⁠41
• New Mexico vs. Colorado State71 meetings, New Mexico 26–⁠45
• New Mexico vs. UTEP71 meetings, New Mexico 38–⁠31–⁠2
• Utah vs. Utah State106 meetings, Utah 74–⁠28–⁠4
• Utah vs. BYU97 meetings, Utah 59–⁠34–⁠4
• Utah vs. Wyoming83 meetings, Utah 51–⁠31–⁠1
• Utah vs. Colorado State80 meetings, Utah 56–⁠22–⁠2