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BYU Football: Cougars schedule home-and-home series with Wyoming

By Shaun Gordon

BOISE, ID - OCTOBER 21: Quarterback Josh Allen #17 of the Wyoming Cowboys turns to hand the ball off during second half action against the Boise State Broncos on October 21, 2017 at Albertsons Stadium in Boise, Idaho. Boise State won the game 24-14. (Photo by Loren Orr/Getty Images)
BOISE, ID - OCTOBER 21: Quarterback Josh Allen #17 of the Wyoming Cowboys turns to hand the ball off during second half action against the Boise State Broncos on October 21, 2017 at Albertsons Stadium in Boise, Idaho. Boise State won the game 24-14. (Photo by Loren Orr/Getty Images) /
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BYU Football is renewing their series with Wyoming, hosting the Cowboys in 2022 and travelling up north in 2024.

BYU Football will finally return to LaVell Edwards’ favorite place to play – but it won’t be for another six years.

According to Robert Gagliardi of Wyosports.net, BYU and Wyoming have agreed to play a home-and-home series, with the Cowboys visiting Provo in 2022, and the Cougars heading up to Laramie in 2024.

It’ll be the first time the two teams have played since BYU left the Mountain West Conference to go independent.

BYU’s legendary coach once told reporters after the Cougars lost at Wyoming: “I’d rather lose and live in Provo than win and live in Laramie.”

When this series becomes official, the Cougars will have nine games scheduled in 2022, with four at home:

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  • at Utah
  • Baylor
  • at Oregon
  • Utah State
  • at Boise State
  • at Liberty
  • East Carolina
  • Wyoming
  • at Stanford

They’ll have six games scheduled so far in 2024, with two at home:

  • Hawaii
  • Georgia Southern
  • at East Carolina
  • at UNLV
  • at North Carolina State
  • at Wyoming

Dates for the games haven’t been released, but will likely be announced when the series is made official.

The two teams certainly aren’t strangers to each other. They’ve faced off 78 times over the last 96 years, with Wyoming winning the first game 13-0 in 1922.

Overall, though, the Cougars have a sizeable lead in the series. BYU leads 45-30-3, and the Cougars have won seven straight and ten out of the last eleven.

The last time these two teams met in the regular season was in 2010, when BYU edged Wyoming 25-20 at LaVell Edwards Stadium. In 2016 the Cougars knocked off the Cowboys 24-21 in the Poinsettia Bowl.

The Cowboys have already started the 2018 season off on the right foot, as they took down future BYU opponent New Mexico State 29-7 last Saturday.

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