Saturday’s Wyoming-Tulsa Game Features a Meeting Between Mountain West and American Athletic Conference Teams

LARAMIE, Wyo. (UW PRESS RELEASE) – This Saturday’s recreation between the Wyoming Cowboys and Tulsa Golden Hurricane will match up groups from the Mountain West and American Athletic Convention groups.  The final time Wyoming performed an American Athletic Convention (AAC) workforce was again in 2019 at Tulsa.

Wyoming has performed 4 present members of the AAC once they had been members of different conferences, however Tulsa is the one AAC workforce that the Cowboys have confronted for the reason that formation of the American Athletic Convention in 2013.

Saturday’s recreation is ready to kick off at 1:30 p.m., Mountain Time from Wyoming’s Warfare Memorial Stadium.

Tickets for Saturday’s Sport

Tickets for Saturday’s recreation could also be bought in a wide range of methods.

•Followers could go browsing at //GoWyo.com/tickets

•Chances are you’ll e mail tickets@uwyo.edu

•Followers could name the UW Athletics Ticket Workplace at (307) 766-7220

•Ticket Workplace workers are additionally obtainable to help followers on the important

Athletics Ticket Workplace is situated on the West Facet of the Enviornment-Auditorium situated at Willett Drive and nineteenth Streets on the UW campus.

•Followers are inspired to buy their tickets earlier than recreation day to get one of the best seats, however tickets could also be bought on recreation day on the Ticket Workplace on the east aspect of Warfare Memorial Stadium.

Costs for season tickets start as little as $159 for adults and $89 for youngsters ages 3-12.

Single-game tickets for the Wyoming-Tulsa recreation begin as little as $35 for adults and $25 for youngsters ages 3-12.

Concerning the Wyoming-Tulsa Sequence

Wyoming and Tulsa have performed one another six earlier occasions and the 2 colleges have break up the earlier six video games 3-3.

•The final time Wyoming and Tulsa performed within the 2019 season in Tulsa, the Golden Hurricane got here away with a 24-21 dwelling victory.

•The 1998 assembly between Wyoming and Tulsa was the one time the 2 groups had been members of the identical convention — the Western Athletic Convention.

2022 Cowboy Crew Captains Named

The Wyoming Cowboys have chosen captains for the 2022 season.  This 12 months’s 4 workforce captains are:

Easton Gibbs, So., Linebacker

Cole Godbout, Jr., Nostril Sort out

Andrew Peasley, Jr., Quarterback

Treyton Welch, Jr., Tight Finish

It’s the first season every of the 4 Cowboys has been elected workforce captain.

Defensive Captains Easton Gibbs and Cole Godbout Have Picked Up Proper The place They Left Off Final Season

Wyoming’s two defensive workforce captains Easton Gibbs and Cole Godbout have picked up proper the place they left off final season as they led the Cowboy protection in tackles within the 2022 season opener at Illinois final Saturday.

Gibbs, who has shifted from weak-side linebacker to center linebacker this season, had 9 tackles in opposition to the Illini and was credited with one quarterback hurry.  A 12 months in the past, Gibbs ranked second on the Cowboy squad in tackles, with 90, and trailed solely All-America linebacker Chad Muma, who was a 2022 third-round NFL Draft choice of the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Godbout recorded seven tackles and 1.0 sort out for loss in opposition to Illinois from his nostril sort out place.  Godbout was third in tackles for the Cowboys in 2021 with 70 tackles.  That ranked him No. 3 amongst all Mountain West defensive linemen in tackles for all video games, averaging 5.38 tackles per recreation.  In convention video games, Godbout ranked No. 2 amongst all MW defensive linemen in tackles, averaging 6.25 tackles per recreation.

Wyoming Offensive Line Spectacular in First Sport of the Season at Illinois

The Wyoming offensive line had a robust efficiency in Wyoming’s season opener at Illinois.

•The Cowboys didn’t permit a single quarterback sack in opposition to the Illini.

•Wyoming didn’t permit a single quarterback hurry in the course of the season opener.

•UW allowed only one.0 sort out for loss for only one yard.

•The Pokes helped Wyoming’s offense generate 182 dashing yards, together with a 98-yard dashing efficiency by working again Titus Swen and a 76-yard dashing recreation by quarterback Andrew Peasley.

Gamers to Watch in Saturday’s Sport

Each groups have gamers who’re among the many finest at their positions nationally.  For Wyoming, junior working again Titus Swen has been named to 3 preseason award watch lists.  Swen is on the Doak Walker Preseason Watch Record.  The Doak Walker Award is offered to the nation’s high collegiate working again every season.  Swen can be on the Paul Hornung Award Watch Record, which honors essentially the most versatile participant in main school soccer.  Lastly, Swen was chosen to the Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Watch Record.  That award acknowledges the highest offensive participant in Division I soccer who displays the enduring traits that outline former College of Texas working again Earl Campbell: integrity, efficiency, teamwork, sportsmanship, drive, neighborhood, and tenacity.  As well as, the nominee should meet a number of of the next standards: born in Texas and/or graduated from a Texas Excessive Faculty and/or performed at a Texas-based junior school or four-year Division I Texas school.  Swen is a graduate of Eaton Excessive Faculty in Fort Price, Texas

For Tulsa, senior quarterback Davis Brin was named to the preseason watch record for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award.  The award yearly acknowledges the highest quarterback within the nation, who’s a senior or upperclassmen set to graduate along with his class.

House Openers within the Bohl Period

Wyoming is 6-2 in dwelling openers in the course of the eight earlier seasons that Craig Bohl has coached the Cowboys.

Now coming into his ninth season main Cowboy Soccer, Bohl’s groups have defeated Montana (2014), Northern Illinois (2016), Gardner-Webb (2017), Missouri (2019), Hawai’i (2020) and Montana State (2021) in dwelling openers and misplaced to solely North Dakota (2015) and Washington State (2018).

House Openers Throughout Bohl Period Rating

Aug. 30, 2014, vs. Montana                           W17-12

Sept. 5, 2015, vs. North Dakota                     L 13-24

Sept. 3, 2016, vs. Northern Illinois                 W 40-34 (3ot)

Sept. 9, 2017, vs. Gardner-Webb                   W 27-0

Sept. 1, 2018, vs. Washington State L 19-41

Aug., 31, 2019, vs. Missouri                           W 37-31

Oct. 30, 2021, vs. Hawai’i                W 31-7

Sept. 4, 2022, vs. Montana State                   W 19-16

Wyoming’s Historical past Versus the American Athletic Convention

The Wyoming Cowboys have performed 4 of the present 11 soccer enjoying members of the American Athletic Convention (AAC) and have a 7-11 report in opposition to these 4 groups.  The AAC was fashioned in 2013.

•This week’s dwelling recreation vs. the Tulsa Golden Hurricane is barely the second time Wyoming has performed an AAC workforce once they had been truly members of the convention since its formation in 2013.  The primary AAC workforce that UW performed was additionally Tulsa again in 2019 in Tulsa, Okla.

AAC Members Wyoming’s File vs.

Cincinnati                          0-0 (Joined AAC in 2014)

East Carolina       0-0 (Joined AAC in 2014)

Houston              1-6 (Joined AAC in 2013, UW final performed in 1988)

Memphis                            0-0 (Joined AAC in 2013)

Navy                                   0-0 (Joined AAC in 2015)

SMU                                   2-1 (Joined AAC in 2013, UW final performed in 1998)

South Florida       0-0 (Joined AAC in 2013)

Temple                1-1 (Joined AAC in 2013, UW final performed in 2011)

Tulane                 0-0 (Joined AAC in 2014)

Tulsa                                  3-3 (Joined AAC in 2014, UW final performed in 2019)

UCF                      0-0 (Joined AAC in 2013)

Totals                   7-11

The place to Watch and Hear

Each Cowboy Soccer recreation is broadcast stay on the 26 associates of the Cowboy Sports activities Community.  Announcers are Reece Monaco, Play-by-Play (1st 12 months), Kevin McKinney, Coloration Analyst (twenty fifth 12 months) and Erick Pauley, Sideline Reporter (1st 12 months).  The pregame present begins 90 minutes previous to kickoff.

Saturday’s Wyoming-Tulsa recreation shall be televised on FS1.  Announcers shall be Eric Collins (Play-by-play) and Devin Gardner (Coloration Analyst).

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