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Greatest Plays

laxwyo

laxwyo

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Let’s do something fun. Tell me about the greatest plays you’ve seen a Wyoming player make. Let’s start with catches. What’s the greatest catch in Wyoming history? Weigh moment and difficulty of catch. This’ll help us remember great moments.

I’ll start with one off the top of my head
Drew Van Maanen against csu. Fullback, snow, amazing catch at a critical time.

What’s yours?
 
A few:

Late 70’s early 80’s can’t remember but Utah was nearing the goal line to seal a win in Laramie when a Wyoming defender hit the QB on a toss sweep run causing the ball to pop up right in front of his teammate who ran it back about 95 yards for a last minute Wyoming win.

1996 win at Iowa State when the Wyoming LB made a diving interception catch on a partially blocked pass.

ACS on a breakout run putting a stiff arm on the CSU DB and sending him flat on his back while running unimpeded to the end zone.

My favorite bowl game plays:

Bramlet to Wadkowski for the win over UCLA in the 2004 Vegas Bowl

ACS to Leonard pass in OT in the first NM Bowl over Fresno.

There are many others but these ones I can easily remember. The others are a blur of being excited about some play during the 80’s and 90’s when I never missed a home game (Dye, Erickson, Roach and Tiller all brought in some noticeable playmakers). Ironic that I didn’t list any Allen or other Bohl players as I remember some exciting plays. For me the ones I recall came when the team hadn’t been successful until that one year and that one game where the play made the team a winner last second.
 
The Van Mannen catch was awesome and a huge moment. Tanner Gentry against UNLV had a few. I also think Tanner Gentry against Boise to get the touchdown at the end that allowed us to tie up the game on a 2-point conversion. If you watch, he had a defender right in front of him and JA just threw it up knowing Tanner was going to come down with it and he did. That was awesome.

I was trying to remember a Ryan Yarborough or Marcus Harris catch but they routinely caught the ball so much that I can't think of a single amazing catch. The one that I kept remembering was Javon Boughnight against Ole Miss. It wasn't the catch that was amazing but it was the run afterwards. He caught a screen pass and broke something like 8 tackles and scored.
 
rich22 said:
The Van Mannen catch was awesome and a huge moment. Tanner Gentry against UNLV had a few. I also think Tanner Gentry against Boise to get the touchdown at the end that allowed us to tie up the game on a 2-point conversion. If you watch, he had a defender right in front of him and JA just threw it up knowing Tanner was going to come down with it and he did. That was awesome.

I was trying to remember a Ryan Yarborough or Marcus Harris catch but they routinely caught the ball so much that I can't think of a single amazing catch. The one that I kept remembering was Javon Boughnight against Ole Miss. It wasn't the catch that was amazing but it was the run afterwards. He caught a screen pass and broke something like 8 tackles and scored.
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I know I have said this repeatedly, but that bubble screen we would run to Bouknight was money. Every time we ran it, there was always an anticipation that it could go to the house.
 
The one that immediately came to my mind was DeVonne Harris blocking the App St. field goal and the scoop and score afterwards....I know it is not some great win in the annals of Wyoming football, but I was there with my 10 year old son...sitting at midfield in the student section...I had lifted him up so he could see the fg attempt. I think I blacked out because the next thing I remember was still holding him aloft and me and the rest of the fans had surged forward a couple rows as the play went the way it did. He still talks about it.

So many from the '90s though time has dimmed them somewhat.
 
I thought the over head pass reception by Josh Barge in the end zone against Ole Miss was the best I personally witnessed. It was great !
 
The front end of a big catch:

Andrew Peasley’s 11-yard touchdown pass to tight end John Michael Gyllenborg against Texas Tech on September 2, 2023, on fourth-and-7 in double overtime.
That touchdown tied it at 33–33; Sam Scott then ran in the two-point conversion for Wyoming’s 35–33 win.

Peasley was soon thereafter shellacked by the blitz.
 
PorkerPoke said:
A few:

Late 70’s early 80’s can’t remember but Utah was nearing the goal line to seal a win in Laramie when a Wyoming defender hit the QB on a toss sweep run causing the ball to pop up right in front of his teammate who ran it back about 95 yards for a last minute Wyoming win.

1996 win at Iowa State when the Wyoming LB made a diving interception catch on a partially blocked pass.

ACS on a breakout run putting a stiff arm on the CSU DB and sending him flat on his back while running unimpeded to the end zone.

My favorite bowl game plays:

Bramlet to Wadkowski for the win over UCLA in the 2004 Vegas Bowl

ACS to Leonard pass in OT in the first NM Bowl over Fresno.

There are many others but these ones I can easily remember. The others are a blur of being excited about some play during the 80’s and 90’s when I never missed a home game (Dye, Erickson, Roach and Tiller all brought in some noticeable playmakers). Ironic that I didn’t list any Allen or other Bohl players as I remember some exciting plays. For me the ones I recall came when the team hadn’t been successful until that one year and that one game where the play made the team a winner last second.
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96’ was my freshmen year and I only remember it being great. Maybe it’s adrenaline making it hard to remember or lack of tv for road games. I just don’t remember much except for the 66-0 beat down of Hawaii and watching the WAC championship in Downey Hall
 
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