by staff–11 Feb ’20
The University of Wyoming and University of California (Berkeley) athletics departments announced on Tuesday a future home-and-home football series. Wyoming will travel to Berkeley, Calif., on Sept. 2, 2028. Cal will play in Laramie, Wyo., on Sept. 8, 2029.
The two teams have played only one previous time back in 1990. That meeting came in the 1990 Copper Bowl played in Tucson, Ariz., and featured one of the most exciting finishes of the 1990 bowl season. The 1990 Copper Bowl saw Cal build a 7-3 halftime lead and take a 17-3 lead early in the fourth quarter. But Wyoming fought back with two fourth-quarter touchdowns in the final six minutes of the game. The Cowboys’ first touchdown came on an 11-yard run by running back Jay Daffer with 5:53 left in the game, followed by a missed two-point conversion to narrow Cal’s lead to eight points at 17-9. With only 49 seconds remaining in the game, Wyoming’s outstanding wide receiver and punt returner Robert Rivers returned a punt 70 yards for a TD to pull the Pokes to within two points at 17-15. The Cowboys had a chance to tie the game with a successful two-point conversion, but Cowboy quarterback Tom Corontzos was sacked. After an unsuccessful on-side kick attempt by Wyoming, the Cal Bears would hold on for a 17-15 win. It was the final game coached by Wyoming’s legendary head coach Paul Roach.
The Cowboys will open the 2028 season on the road at Cal on Sept. 2. Two weeks later on Sept. 16, UW is scheduled to travel to Lubbock, Texas, to face the Texas Tech Red Raiders. The 2029 home game versus Cal on Sept. 8 is currently the only non-conference game that has been scheduled for the 2029 season for the Cowboys.
Wyoming is coming off a very successful season in 2019, posting an 8-5 record and capturing the NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl with a convincing 38-17 win over Georgia State.
University of Wyoming
Future Football Schedules
(As of February 2020)
2020
Date Opponent
Sept. 5 WEBER STATE
Sept. 12 at Louisiana
Sept. 19 UTAH
Sept. 26 at Ball State
2021
Date Opponent
Sept. 4 MONTANA STATE
Sept. 11 at Northern Illinois
Sept. 18 BALL STATE
Sept. 25 at Clemson
2022
Date Opponent
Sept. 3 TULSA
Sept. 10 NORTHERN COLORADO
Sept. 17 at Illinois
Sept. 24 at BYU
2023
Date Opponent
Sept. 2 TEXAS TECH
Sept. 9 PORTLAND STATE
Sept. 16 at Texas
Sept. 23 APPALACHIAN STATE
2024
Date Opponent
Aug. 31 at Arizona State
Sept. 21 NEW MEXICO STATE
Sept. 28 BYU
2025
Date Opponent
Sept. 6 at Utah
2026
Date Opponent
Sept. 5 NORTH TEXAS
Sept. 19 at Central Michigan
Sept. 26 LOUISIANA
2027
Date Opponent
Sept. 4 CENTRAL MICHIGAN
Sept. 18 at North Texas
2028
Date Opponent
Sept. 2 at California
Sept. 16 at Texas Tech
2029
Date Opponent
Sept. 8 CALIFORNIA
All future schedules are tentative and subject to change.
All Wyoming Home games are in CAPS and BOLD.
