If you don’t plan on being at the Wyoming-Texas game in Laramie on Sept. 12 and hoped to watch it on television, you could be out of luck.
The game will be televised by Versus, which is on cable and satellite platforms in Cheyenne and throughout the state. But if you have DIRECTV, you may not get the game. Both sides are in negotiations about renewing their contract, and reportedly those talks are not going well. The current contract expires next Tuesday.
The UW-Texas game is the only time the Cowboys are on Versus this season.
In other news among teams in the Mountain West Conference:
–TCU coach Gary Patterson wasn’t happy with the way his defense played in the Horned Frogs’ scrimmage last Saturday.
“That’s the worst defensive group we’ve had since 2004,” Patterson told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “That’s the worst scrimmage (defensively) we’ve ever had. It was bad.”
TCU led the nation last season in total defense (217.8 yards per game) and was second in scoring defense (11.3 points per game). It returns four starters on defense this season, including All-American candidate Jerry Hughes at defensive end and a pair of senior cornerbacks in Nick Sanders and Rafael Priest.
–Injuries are mounting at Brigham Young. The latest boo-boos were suffered by junior running back Harvey Unga (hamstring) and senior safety Scott Johnson (concussion). Johnson was hurt trying to make a tackle on senior fullback Manase Tonga. Their status for the Cougars’ season-opener Sept. 5 against No. 3 Oklahoma is uncertain.
More than 30 BYU players have suffered injuries during fall camp.
–Colorado State boasts the most experienced offensive line in the country as its five projected starters have a combined 129 starts.
–There have been reports former Utah coach and current Florida coach Urban Meyer would have liked to start the season with a game with the Utes. Nothing transpired.
The Utes still haven’t named a starting quarterback. The battle is down to true freshman Jordan Wynn and junior-college transfer Terrance Cain. Also, junior defensive end Koa Misi hurt his back last week and is listed as questionable for the Utes’ season-opener Sept. 3 against Utah State.
–The MWC agreed to renew its contract with the Las Vegas Bowl through 2013. The bowl will get the first pick from the league (as long as there is no MWC team in a Bowl Championship Series Bowl) and it will play against the No. 5 selection from the Pac-10.
So in most years that pits the MWC champion against a middle-of-the-road Pac-10 team. To me that puts the MWC in a no-win situation. If the MWC champion is worth its salt it should beat the fifth-place Pac-10 team. If it doesn’t, then what does that say about the MWC champion and the repuation of the league that its champion can’t beat — in most years — an average squad from a BCS conference?
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