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Wyoming Gives up Home Game to Travel to CSU for 2026 Opener

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Cowboy Football Announces Future Schedule Change, UW to Open 2026 Season at Colorado State - University of Wyoming Athletics

LARAMIE, Wyo. (Sept. 24, 2025) – The University of Wyoming announced a schedule change for the 2026 season on Wednesday morning. The Cowboys will now open the season
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This is being celebrated as win by Burman, hilarious! We don't even get a return home game from CSU for this ridiculousness until 2036. So we are giving up a home game against an up and comer North Texas to travel to the team that spit in our face, left us behind and is suing us for what amounts to a 1 and done considering that 2036 the landscape will be so different. I am pretty sure that makes us CSU's ******.

Dates for Contests from 2026 to 2036
Sept. 5, 2026 in Fort Collins
Sept. 23, 2028 in Fort Collins
Sept. 22, 2029 in Laramie
Sept. 7, 2030 in Fort Collins
Sept. 20, 2031 in Laramie
Sept. 25, 2032 in Fort Collins
Sept. 24, 2033 in Laramie
Sept. 23, 2034 in Fort Collins
Sept. 22, 2035 in Laramie
Sept. 6, 2036 in Laramie
 
I actually don't have a problem with this. I wouldn't necessarily call it a "win", but I'd much rather we play CSU in Fort Collins then play North Texas in Laramie.

I know CSU sees themselves as better than us and think they are headed to greener pastures with the PAC, but they are our longest historical rival and nothing will change that. The sooner and more we can play them, the better. At least in my opinion.
 
TheRealUW said:
I actually don't have a problem with this. I wouldn't necessarily call it a "win", but I'd much rather we play CSU in Fort Collins then play North Texas in Laramie.

I know CSU sees themselves as better than us and think they are headed to greener pastures with the PAC, but they are our longest historical rival and nothing will change that. The sooner and more we can play them, the better. At least in my opinion.
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North Texas is a better team. We are going above and beyond to accommodate the team that left us behind (potentially to be left for CUSA) and turned around and sued us. I am sorry but let us roll out the white flag and announce to the world that CSU is our master.
 
The North Texas game got rescheduled to 2034.. guessing they got a buy game they didn't want to turn down.

Ahhh.. just looked. Going on the road to Indiana.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1970865969171251648

Ahh edit again.. just looked, the Sheep had Indiana on the schedule for Sept 5, someone pivoted the schedule and now it's Indiana vs UNT, Wyoming vs CSU... so a schedule swap-a-roo.
 
I am lost how this is so 'great' for Wyoming. We just bent over backwards so that Colorado State could escape a for sure whooping at Indiana to get a home game in Fort Collins against us. We are CSU's .....
 
To be clear, I wouldn't say this is "great" or a "win" for UW. If Burman would have decided to turn it down and keep UNT on the schedule, I wouldn't have been upset about that decision.

However, CSU is a really important game for UW. We don't really have any other true rivals. I don't see us playing them as a decision that capitulates to them in any way. The fact they are leaving for the PAC just adds to the rivalry in my opinion.
 
TheRealUW said:
To be clear, I wouldn't say this is "great" or a "win" for UW. If Burman would have decided to turn it down and keep UNT on the schedule, I wouldn't have been upset about that decision.

However, CSU is a really important game for UW. We don't really have any other true rivals. I don't see us playing them as a decision that capitulates to them in any way. The fact they are leaving for the PAC just adds to the rivalry in my opinion.
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I am sure we are on CSU's speed dial now for sure. We could even create a billboard:

"Got a tough road game you’d rather not play? Need an extra home game to pad your ticket sales and TV revenue? Call the University of Wyoming! We specialize in bailing you out. For the low, low price of forfeiting one of our upcoming home games (and the ticket revenue that goes with it), we’ll happily travel to your stadium—absolutely free of charge!"
 
North Texas is 4-0 this year and just pounded coach Sawvel and company 44-17 last year in one of the more embarrassing losses. They are a program on the rise. Burman / Sawvel wanted to avoid a similar drubbing at home to start the season in 2026 along with getting a game against CSU which keeps the border war going for an additional year. North Texas probably wanted the opportunity to go to Indiana which is becoming a strong program as well.
 
rocket city poke said:
North Texas is 4-0 this year and just pounded coach Sawvel and company 44-17 last year in one of the more embarrassing losses. They are a program on the rise. Burman / Sawvel wanted to avoid a similar drubbing at home to start the season in 2026 along with getting a game against CSU which keeps the border war going for an additional year. North Texas probably wanted the opportunity to go to Indiana which is becoming a strong program as well.
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So at Wyoming we can no longer hope to compete with the North Texas’s of the world? If that really is the thinking, why are we trying to be FBS at all? Let’s go to the Big Sky or RMAC.
 
Burman locked in a rivalry. That is a win.

I was pissed off when he signed with BYU. They tried to destroy us and our conference. CSU just made an understandable mistake.
 
Lost Poke said:
Burman locked in a rivalry. That is a win.

I was pissed off when he signed with BYU. They tried to destroy us and our conference. CSU just made an understandable mistake.
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Csu is doing the same thing as byu. And you are ok with it. They tried to destroy the conference on the way out to escape the exit fees.
 
HR_Poke said:
Csu is doing the same thing as byu. And you are ok with it. They tried to destroy the conference on the way out to escape the exit fees.
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Yep. CSU was actively working to sway UNLV to jump ship to the PAC which would have resulted in the MWC’s dissolution so there would be no exit fees to pay and Wyoming’s only choice likely would have been CUSA.
 
OrediggerPoke said:
I am sure we are on CSU's speed dial now for sure. We could even create a billboard:

"Got a tough road game you’d rather not play? Need an extra home game to pad your ticket sales and TV revenue? Call the University of Wyoming! We specialize in bailing you out. For the low, low price of forfeiting one of our upcoming home games (and the ticket revenue that goes with it), we’ll happily travel to your stadium—absolutely free of charge!"
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The one thing I do wonder about is why it is being played in Fort Collins.

CSU was originally scheduled to be away and we were originally scheduled to be at home. It doesn't make a lot of sense to have the venue changed unless CSU is paying us in order to host the game.
 
TheRealUW said:
The one thing I do wonder about is why it is being played in Fort Collins.

CSU was originally scheduled to be away and we were originally scheduled to be at home. It doesn't make a lot of sense to have the venue changed unless CSU is paying us in order to host the game.
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They aren’t paying us anything. CSU is paying Indiana $100,000 as required under their contract with Indiana for getting out of the game (ie damages Indiana incurs for finding another opponent on short notice). In exchange, CSU is giving us a theoretical home game in 2036 which I personally find to be meaningless because things will look much different in 2036, including the possibility that we are in the same conference as CSU again by then.

All that additional ticket and media revenue we could have got from North Texas next year goes away until the theoretical 2034 date of the rescheduled North Texas game.

So instead of the 7 home games Wyoming was long scheduled for next year, we now have 6. But I am sure Tom Burman thinks of it as - I will charge the same for season tickets whether we have 6 or 7 home games and the average fan won’t have any clue that I am actually taking away 1/7 of the value (and probably more because a September game is much more enjoyable than a late November game).
 
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