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Wow! What a performance from your Cowboys last Saturday. I\u2019m sure a lot of you, along with me, were up in the wee hours of the morning. I was wishing, hoping, praying and willing my team to victory. OK, there\u2019s a good possibility that had nothing to do with it and we could be a better team than we have been over the past few years. I did, however, say that we would cover the spread. I\u2019ll take a victory where I can get it. I\u2019m 1-0 so far this season.<\/p>\n
This week, the task is tougher for Wyoming. We head to Sea of Red and take on the Cornhuskers of Nebraska. These aren\u2019t your daddy\u2019s Huskers that seemingly won every National Championship in the 90\u2019s. This is a team that is entering its second year with Mike Riley at the helm and they got off to a good start. The Huskers last week beat fellow Mountain West foe Fresno State, 43-10. They are also 1-0 against the spread, covering the -29 point line from last week.<\/p>\n
Wyoming goes into Memorial Stadium as a 25 point underdog<\/strong>. Given what we saw from both teams last week, I\u2019m picking the Cowboys to cover again. Wyoming has had a history of covering the spread against \u201cPower 5\u201d teams. Over the past 5 years, the Cowboys have yet to pull out a victory but are 6-3 ATS.\u00a0 We have played Nebraska twice in that span, going 1-1.<\/p>\n The last game between these two in Lincoln was in 2013. Wyoming went in as 31 point underdogs and only lost by 3. Maybe I\u2019m overreacting to week one results, but I don\u2019t see any way that Nebraska will be dominant enough to cover 25 points. Again going back 5 years, the Cowboys have only lost twice to \u201cPower 5\u201d opponents by a margin of more than 25 points. Both those instances came in Coach Bohl\u2019s first year and were to Oregon and Michigan State.<\/p>\n Bohl\u2019s game plan is simple: Control the ball, win the turnover battle, stay ahead of the chains, trust your defense. Last year, we couldn\u2019t trust the defense. This year, although it\u2019s only been one game, there\u2019s room for hope. We struggled against the pass against Northern Illinois, but Tommy Armstrong isn\u2019t a great passing quarterback. Saying he\u2019s good is a stretch. Nebraska will struggle to put up enough points to get the margin of victory necessary. My prediction: Huskers 31 Cowboys 20<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Over\/Under<\/strong>: 58. Last week I said to take the under, and surprisingly I was wrong. 58 would be a lot of points for this game. I\u2019ll take the under again.<\/p>\n **\u201dNot so\u201d lock of the week** 1-0<\/strong><\/p>\n I told you BYU would go down to Arizona and win. I\u2019ll admit, I was sweating bullets as a freshman kicker was called onto the field to win the game for them. But he came through, BYU opened up with a win. Week 2 is a place where Vegas can really make some money. More people make rash decisions and get over-excited due to a one week display.<\/p>\n Kentucky plays in the Swamp this week. It\u2019s been 29 years since the Wildcats have beaten the Florida Gators. Kentucky was up big in their game this week, losing a 24 point lead in the second half. They need a bounce back game. That combined with wanting to end a 29 year drought, they will cover the 16.5 points this week. Lock it in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wow! What a performance from your Cowboys last Saturday. I\u2019m sure a lot of you, along with me, were up in the wee hours of the morning. I was wishing, hoping, praying and willing my team to victory. OK, there\u2019s a good possibility that had nothing to do with it and we could be a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[635,751,299,702,123,31],"class_list":["post-6488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wyoblog","tag-craig-bohl","tag-florida-gators","tag-football","tag-kentucky-wildcats","tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","tag-wyoming-cowboys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}