Rumble in the Rockies
| First meeting | October 3, 1903 Colorado, 22–0 |
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| Latest meeting | November 26, 2016 Colorado, 27–22 |
| Next meeting | November 25, 2017 |
| Statistics | |
| Meetings total | 63 |
| All-time series | Colorado leads, 32–28–3 (.532) |
| Largest victory | Colorado, 54–0 (1951) |
| Longest win streak | Colorado, 8 (1951–58) Utah, 8 (1925–33) |
| Current win streak | Colorado, 1 (2016) |
The Rumble in the Rockies is an American college football rivalry between the University of Colorado Buffaloes from Boulder and the University of Utah Utes of Salt Lake City. After nearly five decades of dormancy, the rivalry was revived six years ago in 2011, when both joined the Pac-12 Conference.
From 1903 until 1962, Utah and Colorado played each other nearly every year, a total of 57 games. At that time, it was the second-most played rivalry for both teams (Utah had played Utah State 62 times; Colorado had played Colorado State 61 times). After the 1962 meeting, a second consecutive win by Utah, the teams stopped playing each other in football.
As part of the 2010–13 NCAA conference realignment, both Utah and Colorado joined the Pac-12 in 2011 and were placed in its new South Division; they met that year on Black Friday in Salt Lake. The second game since the realignment was at Boulder and was the first Black Friday college football game to be telecast by the Fox Broadcasting Company.
Prior to the resumption of the rivalry, Colorado played Nebraska on Thanksgiving weekend since the formation of the Big 12 Conference in 1996 in front of a national television audience. Before 1996 in the Big Eight, Nebraska traditionally ended its regular season with rival Oklahoma, while CU had no strong conference rivalry and often concluded with Kansas State or Iowa State. Utah traditionally played nearby rival BYU of Provo in the heated Holy War on Thanksgiving weekend; they have met every year since 1946, and all but two years since 1922.
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