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Rio Grande Rivalry Greatest Games
The series' top 25 meetings, ranked without team allegiance by game-time AP strength, final-score closeness, and overtime.
- Games
- 25
- Top score
- 35/100
- Overtime
- 0
Series context
- Completed meetings
- 91
- Series record
- New Mexico 65-24-2 New Mexico State
- Tracked years
- 1894-2025
- Trophy
- The Roaster
Series ranking
The rivalry's top 25 games
0 of these games include at least one AP-ranked team at kickoff. Open a supported game for its box score and statistics.
- 1971Week 5
New Mexico at New Mexico State
New Mexico 35, New Mexico State 35
Result: Tie
Unranked New Mexico vs. Unranked New Mexico State · 0-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 35/35 · Overtime 0/15
35
Game score
- 1932Week 6
New Mexico at New Mexico State
New Mexico 7, New Mexico State 7
Result: Tie
Unranked New Mexico vs. Unranked New Mexico State · 0-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 35/35 · Overtime 0/15
35
Game score
- 1998Week 4
New Mexico at New Mexico State
New Mexico 27, New Mexico State 28
Winner: New Mexico State
Unranked New Mexico vs. Unranked New Mexico State · 1-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 34/35 · Overtime 0/15
34
Game score
- 1963Week 6
New Mexico at New Mexico State
New Mexico 12, New Mexico State 13
Winner: New Mexico State
Unranked New Mexico vs. Unranked New Mexico State · 1-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 34/35 · Overtime 0/15
34
Game score
- 1949Week 4
New Mexico at New Mexico State
New Mexico 14, New Mexico State 13
Winner: New Mexico
Unranked New Mexico vs. Unranked New Mexico State · 1-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 34/35 · Overtime 0/15
34
Game score
- 1946Week 5
New Mexico at New Mexico State
New Mexico 7, New Mexico State 6
Winner: New Mexico
Unranked New Mexico vs. Unranked New Mexico State · 1-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 34/35 · Overtime 0/15
34
Game score
- 1936Week 9
New Mexico State at New Mexico
New Mexico State 7, New Mexico 6
Winner: New Mexico State
Unranked New Mexico State vs. Unranked New Mexico · 1-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 34/35 · Overtime 0/15
34
Game score
- 1988Week 3
New Mexico at New Mexico State
New Mexico 36, New Mexico State 34
Winner: New Mexico
Unranked New Mexico vs. Unranked New Mexico State · 2-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 33/35 · Overtime 0/15
33
Game score
- 1974Week 9
New Mexico State at New Mexico
New Mexico State 24, New Mexico 26
Winner: New Mexico
Unranked New Mexico State vs. Unranked New Mexico · 2-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 33/35 · Overtime 0/15
33
Game score
- 2000Week 4
New Mexico at New Mexico State
New Mexico 16, New Mexico State 13
Winner: New Mexico
Unranked New Mexico vs. Unranked New Mexico State · 3-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 32/35 · Overtime 0/15
32
Game score
- 1992Week 3
New Mexico at New Mexico State
New Mexico 39, New Mexico State 42
Winner: New Mexico State
Unranked New Mexico vs. Unranked New Mexico State · 3-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 32/35 · Overtime 0/15
32
Game score
- 1987Week 3
New Mexico at New Mexico State
New Mexico 14, New Mexico State 17
Winner: New Mexico State
Unranked New Mexico vs. Unranked New Mexico State · 3-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 32/35 · Overtime 0/15
32
Game score
- 1969Week 11
New Mexico at New Mexico State
New Mexico 24, New Mexico State 21
Winner: New Mexico
Unranked New Mexico vs. Unranked New Mexico State · 3-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 32/35 · Overtime 0/15
32
Game score
- 1939Week 9
New Mexico at New Mexico State
New Mexico 9, New Mexico State 6
Winner: New Mexico
Unranked New Mexico vs. Unranked New Mexico State · 3-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 32/35 · Overtime 0/15
32
Game score
- 1981Week 8
New Mexico at New Mexico State
New Mexico 17, New Mexico State 13
Winner: New Mexico
Unranked New Mexico vs. Unranked New Mexico State · 4-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 31/35 · Overtime 0/15
31
Game score
- 1964Week 7
New Mexico State at New Mexico
New Mexico State 14, New Mexico 18
Winner: New Mexico
Unranked New Mexico State vs. Unranked New Mexico · 4-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 31/35 · Overtime 0/15
31
Game score
- 1938Week 9
New Mexico State at New Mexico
New Mexico State 2, New Mexico 6
Winner: New Mexico
Unranked New Mexico State vs. Unranked New Mexico · 4-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 31/35 · Overtime 0/15
31
Game score
- 1937Week 4
New Mexico at New Mexico State
New Mexico 0, New Mexico State 5
Winner: New Mexico State
Unranked New Mexico vs. Unranked New Mexico State · 5-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 30/35 · Overtime 0/15
30
Game score
Methodology
How each game earns up to 100 points
AP ranking, 50 points: each team earns 26 minus its game-time AP rank. Unranked teams receive zero.
Closeness, 35 points: the final margin is subtracted from 35, with margins of 35 or more receiving zero.
Overtime, 15 points: overtime starts at nine points and rises by two per additional period, capped at 15.
Regular-season rankings use the AP Top 25 recorded for the game's week. Postseason meetings use the final regular-season AP poll before bowl and playoff results. Games before 2005 remain in the ranking but do not link to unsupported box-score pages. Videos are matched by canonical game ID or by a rematch-safe season matchup.