The return of Devin Moore
UPDATE: The official statistics of Saturday's Wyoming-Utah game were changed with the correct players after the writing of this blog.
I don't think there were too many fingers flashed Saturday night, at least by the Wyoming coaching staff.
But evidently, the Cowboys are the Rodney Dangerfield of Mountain West Conference football to Utah officials. The don't get any respect.
At least, according to the official game statistics when they were first released Saturday night into Sunday afternoon.
If you saw the stats when they first came out, you would have noticed that Devin Moore was back with the Cowboys. In fact, Moore not only caught a 30-yard touchdown pass, but he also completed 19 of 30 passes for 121 yards.
Maybe the NCAA needs to investigate this as Moore graduated last spring.
Also, the touchdown Moore caught came from Eric Benson. Uh ... say what?
Well, Moore didn't sneak into his own Wyoming uniform and fool the Utes. His old number, evidently, fooled the game officials. Yeah, No. 5 now is freshman quarterback Austyn Carta-Samuels and the TD pass he caught came from second-strong quarterback Robert Benjamin.
But according to the first official stats, neither Carta-Samuels or Benjamin played. Other notable former Cowboys who came back for one more game included Ward Dobbs, Mike Jurgens and Derrick McMahen.
And Brandon Ribble, who is now running track at CSU, also caught one pass for six yards.
I wore No. 88 at Hot Springs (S.D.) High School in the late 1970s. I hope they didn't confuse me with Orlando Arnold.
I don't think there were too many fingers flashed Saturday night, at least by the Wyoming coaching staff.
But evidently, the Cowboys are the Rodney Dangerfield of Mountain West Conference football to Utah officials. The don't get any respect.
At least, according to the official game statistics when they were first released Saturday night into Sunday afternoon.
If you saw the stats when they first came out, you would have noticed that Devin Moore was back with the Cowboys. In fact, Moore not only caught a 30-yard touchdown pass, but he also completed 19 of 30 passes for 121 yards.
Maybe the NCAA needs to investigate this as Moore graduated last spring.
Also, the touchdown Moore caught came from Eric Benson. Uh ... say what?
Well, Moore didn't sneak into his own Wyoming uniform and fool the Utes. His old number, evidently, fooled the game officials. Yeah, No. 5 now is freshman quarterback Austyn Carta-Samuels and the TD pass he caught came from second-strong quarterback Robert Benjamin.
But according to the first official stats, neither Carta-Samuels or Benjamin played. Other notable former Cowboys who came back for one more game included Ward Dobbs, Mike Jurgens and Derrick McMahen.
And Brandon Ribble, who is now running track at CSU, also caught one pass for six yards.
I wore No. 88 at Hot Springs (S.D.) High School in the late 1970s. I hope they didn't confuse me with Orlando Arnold.
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