Wyoming Beats Air Force 28-14 Despite 63 Falcon Carries
Air Force ran the ball 63 times for 304 yards. Wyoming ran it 24 times for 188. Wyoming won by 14.
The difference, at least in the box score, is three fumbles lost by the Falcons and zero turnovers by the Cowboys. Wyoming also got more out of each play it did run. Tyler Hughes opened the scoring with a 68-yard touchdown run, and he was throwing before the half was out too: a four-yard touchdown pass to Jake Wilson and an 11-yarder to Samuel Harris in the last minute of the second quarter. That made it 21-6, since Air Force's only first-half points were two Carter Cremascoli field goals from 37 and 46 yards.
Air Force made its move after the break. Evan Medders threw a five-yard touchdown pass to Grant Wayne and ran in the two-point conversion himself, cutting it to 21-14 with 6:53 left in the third. Nobody scored after that until Markell Holman pushed in from the one with 3:04 to go. Wyoming led from the first score to the last and was never tied.
The passing numbers are a fun contrast. Wyoming threw for 113 yards, Air Force for 83, which makes this a game about two teams that would rather run. Wyoming improves to 5-3. Air Force falls to 5-2, having done almost everything with the ball except hold onto it.
Fantasy owners got most of their value from Hughes, who scored 37.1 points on an unusual line: 113 passing yards and 146 rushing yards.