LARAMIE — It’s officially Wyoming football season.

Man, it will never get old writing those words.

The Cowboys open their 128th season Saturday night at Arizona State. Kickoff is slated for 8:30 p.m. Mountain Time and the game will be televised on FS1. These two teams, who used to be Western Athletic Conference rivals, haven’t met since 1977.

The Sun Devils hold a 9-6 advantage in the overall series.

It was a busy offseason on the high plains, beginning with the December retirement of Craig Bohl. Just minutes after his 10-year tenure came to a close, the university announced Jay Sawvel would be the 33rd head coach in program history after spending the previous four seasons as Bohl’s defensive coordinator.

Sawvel added new faces to his staff. He inked 38 newcomers on signing day. He added from the portal. That is already paying off. DJ Jones, who spent the previous four years at North Carolina, will be the starting running back in Tempe. Two-time All-American punter Jack Culbreath also comes to Laramie from the Virginia Military Institute.

The Cowboys, for the first time in more than a decade, will have last names on the back of their jerseys. There’s also a third uniform combination.

While the storylines are endless, one most have an eye on is under center. Evan Svoboda, a Mesa, Ariz., native, will start against the Sun Devils Saturday night. The 6-foot-5, 245-pound junior teased the fanbase with a solid showing at Texas last September. That night he completed 17-of-28 passes for 136 yards. Wyoming and the No. 4 team in the nation took a 10-10 tie into the fourth quarter.

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Now, let’s throw down some dollars …

Here’s this week’s matchups and betting odds:

Wyoming (+7) at Arizona State

Sacramento State (+3.5) at San Jose State

Colorado State (+32) at No. 4 Texas

Boise State (-13) at Georgia Southern

UNLV (+2.5) at Houston

Nevada (+9) at Troy

Fresno State (+20.5) at No. 9 Michigan

UCLA (-14) at Hawaii

New Mexico (+31) at No. 21 Arizona

No. 14 Clemson (+13.5) at No. 1 Georgia

No. 8 Penn State (-8) at West Virginia

No. 7 Notre Dame (+3) at No. 20 Texas A&M

Here’s our best bet this week and a great big thank you to former Wyoming football players Kirk Vanroekel and Mike Fitzgerald for joining us:

– University of Wyoming’s Top 50 Football Players

The National Transportation Safety Board Preliminary Report on the July 26 fatal Pilatus PC12-47E accident in Wyoming does not offer much in the way of new information. It supports previous reporting that the single-engine turboprop, with seven on board including the owner-pilot, crashed after an apparent loss of autopilot function followed by a loss of control.

The NTSB report records, more specifically, that about an hour into the flight from Nebraska City Airport to Billings Logan International Airport in Montana, the aircraft (N357HE), cruising at 26,000 feet, maneuvered right of course and climbed to about 27,550 feet. It then began a right 270-degree turn. In the first 180 degrees of the turn, it descended to approximately 25,250 feet, then climbed back up to 27,025 feet in the final 90 degrees of the turn.

That maneuver was followed by a slight left turn followed by a descending 180-degree right turn. The pilot reported to Salt Lake City Air Route Traffic Control Center that he had lost his autopilot and was trying to regain control of the aircraft. The last data point recorded showed N347HE on a southerly heading at 21,900 feet. There were no more communications with ATC before the crash about 12 miles northeast of Recluse, Wyoming.

CASPER, Wyo. (Wyoming News Now) – A temple has been under construction since October 2021 and now it is ready for an open house.

The Casper Wyoming Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is preparing for open house events.

The open house starts on August 29th. Those that choose to go, can get a tour of the inside and outside of the building, and learn more about what the temple offers.

The temple is located off the intersection of Wyoming Boulevard and Eagle Drive on the southwest side of Casper. The building is around 10,000 square feet.

Open house starts with media day and then starting on Thursday, tours of the temple will be available to the public to check out the newly established site.

“This is opening up to the public to come through till September14th to see the Casper Wyoming Temple. To go through to ask questions. The Casper community has watched it being built so now they get a chance to go inside and to see it,” said Beth Worthen, the Communications Director for the Temple Open House Committee.

The Casper Wyoming Temple is the second temple in the state. The first being the Star Valley Wyoming Temple in Afton.

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