Wyoming Cowboys Take On #19 BYU Saturday Night
Wyoming Cowboys and Brigham Young Cougars will meet for the 79th time this Saturday at 8:15 p.m. from LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo, Utah. Wyoming is 3-1 overall and 1-0 in the Mountain West Conference. BYU is 2-2 on the season and ranked No. 19 in this week’s Associated Press media poll and No 23 in USA Today Sports AFCA coaches poll.
The Cowboy Football games are broadcast live on the 26 affiliates of the Cowboy Sports Network. Reece Monaco, Kevin McKinney, Dustin Fox and Lauren Sisler are the play-by-play announcers. The pregame show begins 90 minutes prior to kickoff. Saturday’s Wyoming-BYU game will be televised on ESPN2.
Wyoming Cowboys take on BYU on Saturday night. The teams have a long-standing football rivalry. Wyoming has 30 wins and 45 wins against BYU. BYU won the last game in 2003 in Laramie by a score of 13-10. The two teams first met in 1922 when they played each other twice as members of the Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic Conference. From 1929 to 1942, the two schools played every season. After World War II, they renewed the rivalry and played from 1946 to 1992.
Wyoming Cowboys won their third straight game by beating the previously unbeaten Air Force Falcons 17-14 on Friday, Sept. 16. Wyoming accounted for 180 rushing yards to Air force's 171, while the Cowboys threw for 162 and won the time of possession battle 29:26 to 29 minutes. The Cowboys defense held the Falcons to 171 rushingyards, 337.5 yards under their average.
Wyoming Cowboys take on #19 BYU on Saturday night. Wyoming is 3-1 overall and 1-0 in the Mountain West. Last meeting between the two teams was in 2016 Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego. BYU led Wyoming 10-7 at halftime, but Wyoming came back to win the game 24-21. The Cowboys have won three straight games. It is the longest current winning streak of any Mountain Western team. The last game of the current streak was against Air Force.
Wyoming Cowboys take on #19 BYU on Saturday night. Wyoming's junior nose tackle Cole Godbout has been a standout for the Pokes the last four seasons. God bout started 26 games this season and made 19.0 tackles for loss.
Wyoming Cowboys take on #19 BYU on Saturday night. Wyoming quarterback Andrew Peasley played a great game against Air Force on Friday, Sept. 16. It was the third consecutive game this season that Pease completed over 60 percent of his passes.
Wyoming Cowboys take on #19 BYU on Saturday night. This year's team has shown an amazing ability to come back to win games. In the home game vs. Tulsa on Sept. 3, the Pokes trailed 34-24 with 14:52 remaining. John Hoyland kicked a career best 55-yard field goal and quarterback Andrew Peasley connected with wide receiver Joshua Cobbs on a 51-yards TD pass to tie the game at 34, 34 and force overtime. Wyoming won the overtime game 40-37.
Clayton Stewart is Wyoming's top punter. He averaged 51.5 yards per punt in last Friday's win over Air Force. Stewart's team is ranked No. 3 in the Mountain West and No 25 in FBS. He is averaging 44. 5 yards a punt this season. The team's average starting field position after Stewart’s four punts was the Air force 19 and 1/2 yard line.
15th Annual Coach To Cure MD is September 22-24, 2022. It's a sideline charity initiative that unites football coaches across America. The initiative is a partnership between the American Football Coaches Association and Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy. There is no cure for Duchenne. Duchennes are the most common fatal genetic disorder diagnosed during childhood. People with Ducenne develop progressive muscle weakness that eventually causes loss of mobility, wheelchair reliance, and decline in respiratory and cardiac function.
After Saturday's game at BYU, Wyoming will host San Jose State on Saturday, October 1. That game will kick off at 5:30 p.m. from Jonah Field at War Memorial Stadium.
