Wyoming, Arizona scheduled to face off again

LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming and University of Arizona athletics departments announced on Wednesday a future home-and-home football series.  Wyoming will travel to Tucson, Ariz., on Sept. 14, 2030 to play the Wildcats.  Arizona will play in Laramie, Wyo., on Sept. 17, 2033. 

The last time the two teams played in football was Oct. 1, 1977, in Laramie.  That game was won by the Cowboys, 13-12.  It was Arizona’s last season as a member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) before beginning play in the Pacific-10 Conference in 1978.  Arizona and Arizona State both left the WAC after the 1977-78 academic year, leading to the expansion of the Pacific-8 Conference to the Pac-10.

The Cowboys and Wildcats were both founding members of the WAC and played each other as conference opponents every year from 1962 to 1977.  Wyoming holds a 9-7 advantage in conference meetings versus Arizona.  The overall series dates back to the first meeting in 1936, and Arizona holds a 12-10 advantage in the overall series.

Wyoming has played in Tucson three times since 1977 but they didn’t face the Arizona Wildcats in any of those three games.  All three appearances were in bowl games.  UW finished a very successful season in 2019 in Tucson, capturing the NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl with a convincing 38-17 win over Georgia State.  In 1993, Wyoming lost to Kansas State, 52-17, in the Copper Bowl, and in 1990 the Pokes lost a heartbreaker to California in the Copper Bowl by a score of 17-15.

Below is a peak Wyoming’s future football schedules.  All future schedules are tentative and subject to change.

  2020

Date                       Opponent

Sept. 5                   WEBER STATE

Sept. 12                 at Louisiana

Sept. 26                 at Ball State

                    2021

Date                       Opponent

Sept. 4                   MONTANA STATE

Sept. 11                 at Northern Illinois

Sept. 18                 BALL STATE

Sept. 25                 at UConn

                    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. 7                   IDAHO

Sept. 21                 NEW MEXICO STATE

Sept. 28                 BYU

                    2025

Date                       Opponent

Aug. 30                 CAL POLY

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

                    2030

Date                       Opponent

Sept. 14                 at Arizona

                    2033

Date                       Opponent

Sept. 17                 ARIZONA

All future schedules are tentative and subject to change. 

All Wyoming Home games are in CAPS and BOLD.

University of Wyoming press release