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CSU report: Wyoming's 4-7 record a surprise

By Jim Benton, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)

Published November 19, 2008 at 10:02 p.m.

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Colorado State coach Steve Fairchild can't believe Wyoming has gone 4-7 this season.

"I remember doing some offseason studies through the spring and the summer and thinking these guys might be the dark-horse team," Fairchild said of the Mountain West Conference race. "I said to our staff a number of times that the way they play defense with that back (Devin Moore) they have, they may be the team to beat."

But things changed.

"It's funny," Fairchild said. "Each year is different and things unfold, and this league is so darn good, if we lined it up and played it again, who's to say BYU and Utah don't win it and Wyoming finishes high.

"It's what makes the game great - things can happen and the ball bounces strange and there are a couple turnovers. I know that's (turnovers) been the issue, they've been fighting turning the ball over. Any time you do that, you're going to struggle."

Bronze Boot festivities

Fairchild will participate, in a limited way, in the Bronze Boot run.

Each year, cadets from the ROTC unit of the visiting team run the game ball from campus to the Colorado/Wyoming border, where the ball is handed off to the home school's ROTC unit.

ROTC students usually each run a mile along U.S. 287. The border "handoff" of the Bronze Boot trophy includes university dignitaries. The Wyoming ROTC unit usually arrives on horseback wearing 19th-century cavalry uniforms.

If weather permits Friday, CSU plans to arrive by a 21st-century cavalry - U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopters from the Colorado National Guard.

Fairchild will be aboard one of the helicopters, a first for him.

"I'm looking forward to it," he said.