The University of Wyoming football team (4-3 overall, 2-1 Mountain West Conference) got back to into its normal game-week mode Sunday as it prepares for its next game at No. 19 Utah (6-1, 3-0) at 6 p.m. Saturday in Salt Lake City.
Utah won a dramatic 23-16 overtime game against Air Force this past Saturday in Salt Lake.
“I think I have an ulcer,” Utah coach Kyle Whittingham told The Salt Lake Tribune after he watched his team get just eight first downs against the stingy Air Force defense.
While that game was close, previous UW-Utah contests have not.
Utah has won eight of the last nine, including the last two by a combined score of 90-7. UW has lost four straight at Utah by a combined score of 165-30.
The Cowboys lost 50-0 at Utah in 2007 in the infamous game where former coach Joe Glenn was caught on camera flipping off the Utah sideline after the Utes attempted an onside kick in the third quarter up 43-0.
Utah is promoting this year’s game as a “Blackout” and is encouraging fans to wear black attire. There also will be a Halloween costume contest, a trick-or-treating zone for kids and a pre-game function where members of the men’s basketball team signs autographs.
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Here are some quotes from around the MWC after last Saturday’s games:
“I thought I was done.” — Utah junior running back Eddie Wide told The Salt Lake Tribune after he suffered a high ankle sprain against Air Force. Wide returned, rushed for more than 100 yards and scored the game-winning touchdown in overtime.
“Speed defeats everybody.” — TCU junior receiver and return specialist Jeremy Kerley told The Salt Lake Tribune after No. 8 TCU hammered No. 16 Brigham Young 38-7 in Provo, Utah.
“Bottom line is that are just better than us.” — BYU senior quarterback Max Hall about TCU as told to The Salt Lake Tribune.
“How do you go out there and hold a team to seven points and then give up 35 the second half?” — Colorado State defensive coordinator Larry Kerr in the Fort Collins Coloradoan after CSU’s 42-28 home loss to San Diego State.
“They’ve got a receiver that’s a first-day (NFL) draft pick and he didn’t play. Lord knows what would have happened if he’d been out there.” — CSU coach Steve Fairchild in the San Diego Union-Tribune on the fact SDSU junior receiver Vincent Brown didn’t play much because of a sprained thumb, but senior receiver DeMarco Sampson came through wtih 15 catches for 257 yards and three touchdowns.
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See Monday’s paper on the latest college football polls, including my Harris Poll. Also, there are three stories about UW men’s and women’s basketball.
Check out the blog Monday night with an update from the football team’s weekly news conference from Laramie. And, this blog could be moving — kind of. Details to come soon.
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