Very sad story. Prayers for this young man's family.

San Jose State player killed

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Cowgirls scores with about a minute left in the match to win 2-1

Bills 24
KC 20

Just wanted to post the numbers on Sean's successes in Bozeman so far. Pretty remarkable with all the injuries he fought through as a Poke.

Rushing: 88 carries, 622 yards, 7.1 yd average, 16 TDs.
Passing: 40 for 68, 509 yards, 6 TDs, 4 INTs

Appears he's sharing time with Tommy Mellott at the position since Mellott's injury.

love it

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UW is 4-4 in conf. play while the two opponents are 5-3

With game temps predicted down in 40's, how in hell am I supposed to pack enough gear to keep a 9 year old great granddaughter, a daughter coming to game from Texas, and a wife who has low tolerance to being cold, warm in bags the size of this?

Such a "head in the sand," sorry azzed policy....




Go Pokes

4 of the bottom 14 are MW teams

They are currently 7th- 1 spot out of the tournament. The loss at AF on Sunday was a huge disappointment. Colorado college, who lost to UW earlier last week has 12 points- UW w/11
UW has Fresno and San Jose at home this week and at the Sheep next week. A minimum of 6 points seems to be a must. Colorado College has UNLV, Nevada and Air Force- all having less points than CC. Cowgirls are 2 points behind Utah State which ends the season with SDSU (1st place), NM (2nd place) and Boise (tied w/USU for 4th) so if the Cowgirls get at least 2 wins, USU may be hard pressed to keep up.
Soccer needs a strong home crowd this TH and SUN.

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Can’t forget Epps walk-on made himself a hell of a player in the nfl.

3-1

23-25, 25-20, 25-21, 25-14

1-0. AF scored with about 12 minutes left to play. Big loss for UW

Kickoff: 5 p.m. MT

University Stadium

Weather: 61° Winds 8 mph to the southeast.

Being reported Sheep States Isaiah Stephens has broken his foot and will have surgery soon. Will be out for an extended amount of time.

Go Pokes!!

MW:
Utah St @ Sheep
NM @ NM St (yawn)
AF @ UNLV
SJSU @ Fresno (Spartans will take a big step to the title game with a win)
NV @ Hawaii ( YAWN- pillow fight)
Boise, SDSU and UW all facing Bye this week

OOC:
#24 Illinois v. Minnesota (IL 2-1/5-1 and tied for 1st in Big Ten West)
Ark @ BYU (4-2)
Montana St @ No.CO (1-2/2-4 tied for 7th in Big Sky)
Tulsa bye (0-2/2-4 tied for 10th in American)

Of our D1 opponents in 2022 we are 3-3 with 5 of our opponents in the top half of all defenses nationally. Our FBS opponents are a cumulative 21-14 with the teams who beat us compiling a 13-4 cumulative record to date. We have 5 MWC games remaining with 2 home and 3 road games. Our remaining opponents are a cumulative 9-19 so we officially opened with the toughest part of the schedule. Will our remaining opponents continue to be losers? We will soon find out.

The chart below indicates the strength of the opponents ability to Rush or Pass and their strength against the Rush or Pass or for each category Both or Neither.

We will be playing these defenses:

#4 BSU B
#88 FSU P
#90 USU P
#94 CSU R
#124 Hawaii N

We have played these defenses:

#2 Illinois (6) B
#16 SJSU (16) B
#19 AFA (17) B
#42 UNM (27) R
#58 BYU (24) R
#89 Tulsa (40) P

We are 76th on defense and our strength is against the Rush.

We will be playing these offenses:

#85 FSU P
#95 USU P
#106 BSU R
#118 Hawaii P
#130 CSU P

We have played these offenses:

#37 AFA (14) R
#45 Tulsa (37) P
#58 BYU (38) P
#83 SJSU (38) P
#128 UNM (14) R

We are 1-2 against Passing teams and 2-0 against Rushing teams.

We are a disappointing 121st nationally and are an offensive B with nearly identical Rush and Pass totals.

Based on the 7th week of play with teams nationally having played nearly half a season the statistics are now normalizing into an indicative curve. This is the statistical order of difficulty in our remaining games:

1 - BSU
2 - @FSU
3 - USU
4 - @CSU
5 - @Hawaii

The road to the division title can culminate with the BSU game if - and only if - we win the next 4 games. It is very doubtful that BSU is anything less then 5-1 when they come to Laramie. Therefore we need to be 5-1 as well and beat BSU to go 6-1 before playing Fresno. We also have to hope @AFA beats BSU. The only way to the title at 2-1 with BSU being 3-0 and playing weak teams besides @AFA and @wyoming is to win at least 4 including beating BSU. Simply winning all remaining games clinches the division.

USU finishes with SJSU and BSU and with only 1 loss so far they have to win in Laramie or else they are most likely out.

AFA with 2 losses (Wyoming and USU) would have to win all remaining games and hope BSU, Wyoming and USU lose 2 more to have a chance at the division.

Overall I feel we have a very good chance to be a 6-6 team at the minimum based on the health of the QB spot. Don’t know how good Clemons can be, but if both Peasley and Clemons went down I wouldn’t feel very good about any game. We can mathematically finish as good as 9-3 or as bad as 4-8. Historically 6-6 is a logical minimum but I think we have a solid chance to go 7-5.

All things considered the reason for a bit more optimism of 7-5 is that only BSU meets the criteria for a team that will be a very tough game. USU is coming on with the change to Cooper Legas at QB and are key in the run up to the game with BSU. We would have to play about as inept as ever to fall to Hawaii and CSU but never discount the possibility because even Vic Koenning and Craig Bohl won that unexpected conference game with 2-10 teams. Fresno is vulnerable without a healthy Haener but Haener is expected back soon so no promises there. The question is do we win 3 or more games to clinch a postseason spot outright? If we only win 2 we (“yawn”) have a successful but average year at 6-6. If we win 1 or less for a losing season our world implodes and many will be extremely furious.

won 4 matches on Wednesday

Cowgirls were especially strong

MVP of 2022 season?

Here’s the case:

15-16 on FGA
Perfect on PAT
Consistently reaching end zone on kickoffs.

He did miss a kick in the Tulsa game but was 4-5 including a 55 yarder in a game we won by 3 in OT.

His FG was the difference in the 17-14 AFA win (it’s a stretch because it was a very short FG and the kick the AFA kicker missed was a long one).

The real key though is the UNM game. This was a 20-14 game with UNM having one last possession to try to come back. The difference up to the point was Hoyland going 2-2 and the UNM kicker going 0-2. If we swapped kickers that would have been us having to put together a desperation TD drive at the end and it likely would have ended the same way UNM’s did.

Maybe MVP is a bit strong, but I greatly appreciate what a luxury it is to have a reliable kicker. He has always been accurate, but he has really gotten stronger and now he consistently reaches the end zone on kickoffs (at least at altitude) and is a very solid option up to 55 at altitude and 50 at lower elevations.

Could really go down as one of the better place kickers we have ever had if he maintains this pace.

Go Pokes!!!

Weather: 58° with 7 mph winds out of the southeast. Forecast clear.