[RECAP] New Mex­ico Bowl Stunner

In case you missed it, the Wyoming Cow­boys fin­ished their sea­son in spec­tac­u­lar win­ning fash­ion. In one of the first games of Bowl sea­son, the Cow­boys took on the Fresno State Bull­dogs in Albu­querque, NM. In front of a national audi­ence on ESPN, the Cow­boys came back in the fourth quar­ter and sent the game into over­time. Lead­ing the Cow­boys back into con­tention was fresh­man quar­ter­back Austyn Carta-Samuels. Carta-Samuels used his head, his legs and his arm to keep the UW drive alive on mul­ti­ple fourth down con­ver­sions, which brought the Cow­boys into scor­ing range.

The over­time period was even more dra­matic than the fourth quar­ter had been, if you can believe that. In over­time, the Cow­boys hog-tied the Bull­dogs on four con­sec­u­tive downs inside the 5-yard-line to pre­vent Fresno St. from scor­ing. Wyoming then scored on a per­fect touch pass to the cor­ner of the end­zone to give the Pokes the advan­tage of forc­ing Fresno St. to also score a touch­down. The defense did exactly what they had done through­out the fourth quar­ter and first over­time pos­ses­sion. They com­pletely smoth­ered the Bull­dogs offense.

The Cow­boys came away with a thrilling Bowl vic­tory for first sea­son Head Coach Dave Chris­tensen. The MVPs of the game were fresh­man quar­ter­back Austyn Carta-Samuels for the offense and senior line­man Mitch Unrein on the defense. With an incred­i­ble start to a Head Coach­ing career, Dave Chris­tensen is already among some of the most élite coaches that the Uni­ver­sity of Wyoming has had in their 113 years of existence.