Update: Wyoming high school football standings from 1894-1947

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I recently added the Wyoming high school football standings from 1894-1947 to the site. Click here for a full listing of year-by-year standings.

Standings prior to 1948 list overall records only, as district play was loosely organized, each team in a district did not necessarily play every other team in the same district, and district records alone were not how a district champion was determined.

I also combined the 1904, 1905, 1906 and 1907 season pages onto the page that previously listed the results from 1894-1903 only. That’s here. All of the links have been redirected on all the relevant pages.

–patrick

Updates: Big Horn, Midwest, Guernsey-Sunrise, Douglas, standings from the 1950s

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Big-time site helper Jim Craig helped me with the standings for 1951, 1952, 1953 and 1954, which are now posted.

He also helped me verify one addition: Big Horn’s 27-14 loss to the Sheridan JV on Oct. 31, 1969, in Big Horn.

I also fixed the location for the game between Midwest and Guernsey-Sunrise on Sept. 2, 1983; it was in Midwest, not Guernsey.

I also removed a losing streak from the streaks page. I had Douglas losing 21 games in a row from 1965-68. I don’t know how that happened — Douglas never lost that many in a row.

All of the updates have been reflected on all the relevant pages.

–patrick

Updates: Shoshoni, Basin, Cokeville, Mountain View, Cowley, Evanston, Lingle, Sunrise

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Thanks to Jim Craig’s continuing research, I’ve been able to make the following updates to the site:

Fixed the score of Basin’s 25-6 victory against Shoshoni on Sept. 21, 1956; I had the score transposed, with Shoshoni winning by that score.

Added Cokeville’s 40-26 victory against Mountain View on Sept. 9, 1955. This was actually Mountain View’s first game in program history.

Added Cowley’s 63-30 victory against Belfry, Mont., on either Sept. 9 or 10, 1955 (added to the missing games list because a date and a location couldn’t be verified).

Added Lingle’s 30-24 victory against Sunrise on Oct. 29, 1954.

Added statewide standings for 1955, 1956, 1957 and 1958.

Through my own research, I also found the final score for one more game: Evanston’s 57-0 loss to Montpelier, Idaho, on Oct. 23, 1942. I had already noted that Evanston had lost this game; this update simply provided the final score.

All the changes are reflected on all the relevant pages.

–patrick

Wyoming high school football conference championship droughts

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Even though Torrington’s 2015 season did not end in Laramie, it still carried significance in the annals of Blazer football successes.

Last year, the Trailblazers won the Class 3A East Conference championship — the program’s first conference title since 1996 and its first outright title since 1994. I wrote about this in October when I looked into Torrington’s eventual conference title; I knew it had been a while.

But Torrington’s 20-year stretch without a conference title actually isn’t all that rare in Wyoming.

Cheyenne South, Wyoming Indian, Normative Services, Rock River, Farson and St. Stephens haven’t won conference titles yet, or in the case of Farson and St. Stephens, none since 1967 (when my season-by-season conference record listings end).

The next-longest drought belongs to Kelly Walsh, which hasn’t won or shared a conference championship since 1981. Other programs that haven’t won or shared a conference title in this century are Pine Bluffs (1988), Hanna (1989), Big Piney (1990), Lander (1995), Wind River (1997), Thermopolis (1998), and Moorcroft and Pinedale (1999).

These listings come with the caveat that, for several years — some classes more than others — power ratings, not conference standings, determined playoff qualifications. So, for several years in the early 2000s, Wyoming did not have official conference champions. Teams that finished atop the regular-season power ratings for their classifications those years are not awarded conference championships in this analysis.

Big Piney has the most curious case, as the Punchers have won five state titles in the span since their last conference title: 1998 (2nd in conference), 2000 (2nd), 2001 (no conferences due to power ratings), 2004 (no conferences due to power ratings), and 2006 (4th).

Several other programs have shared conference titles this century but haven’t won an outright title in the 2000s:

Newcastle (last shared 2011, last outright 1981)
Rock Springs (last shared 2003, last outright 1989)
Worland (last shared 2009, last outright 1989)
Wheatland (last shared 2015, last outright 1989)
Cheyenne Central (last shared 2007, last outright 1990)
Saratoga (last shared 2007, last outright 1995)
Lingle (last shared 2015, last outright 1996)
Moorcroft (last shared 1999, last outright 1997)
Hulett (last shared 2015, last outright 1999)

Lander’s last title in 1995 was shared; its last outright title came before 1967, when my conference standings records stop.

It’s worth noting here that this list will probably grow rather than shrink over the next few years. Class 4A has just one conference, while other classifications have only two conferences apiece. Winning a conference title has gotten much more difficult the past 15-20 years… which is why so many schools haven’t won conference titles in, oh, 15 or 20 years.

Folks in Torrington know all too well.

–patrick

Playoff scenarios entering Week 8

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Here are the playoff scenarios for Wyoming high school football teams entering Week 8, the final week of the regular season. A full schedule of Week 8 games is here.

Class 4A
Gillette: In. No. 1 seed.
Sheridan: In. No. 2 seed.
Natrona: In. No. 3 seed with victory. No. 4 seed with loss and Gillette victory. Tie for 3-4-5 seeds (coin flip to break) with loss and Cheyenne East victory.
Cheyenne East: In. No. 4 seed with Natrona victory (no matter what East does). Tie for 3-4-5 seeds (coin flip to break) with victory and Rock Springs victory. No. 5 seed with loss and Rock Springs victory.
Rock Springs: In. No. 3 seed with victory and Gillette victory. Tie for 3-4-5 seeds (coin flip to break) with victory and Cheyenne East victory. No. 5 seed with loss.
Kelly Walsh: In. No. 6 seed with victory. No. 7 seed with loss and Central victory. Tie for 6-7-8 seeds (coin flip to break) with loss and Evanston victory.
Cheyenne Central: Neither in nor out. No. 7 seed with victory and Kelly Walsh victory. No. 8 seed with victory and Laramie victory. Out with loss.
Laramie: Neither in nor out. No. 6 seed with victory and Central victory. Tie for 6-7-8 seeds (coin flip to break) with victory and Evanston victory. No. 8 seed with loss and Evanston victory. Out with loss and Central victory.
Evanston: Neither in nor out. No. 7 seed with victory and Kelly Walsh victory. Tie for 6-7-8 seeds (coin flip to break) with victory and Laramie victory. No. 8 seed with loss and Kelly Walsh victory. Out with loss and Laramie victory.
Cheyenne South: Out.

Class 3A East
Torrington: In. No. 1 seed.
Douglas: In. No. 2 seed with victory. No. 3 seed with loss and Lander victory. Tie for 2-3-4 seeds (coin flip to break) with loss and Riverton victory.
Buffalo: In. No. 2 seed with victory and Lander victory. Tie for 2-3-4 seeds (coin flip to break) with victory and Riverton victory. No. 4 seed with loss.
Riverton: In. No. 3 seed with Douglas victory (no matter what Riverton does). Tie for 2-3-4 seeds (coin flip to break) with victory and Buffalo victory. No. 4 seed with loss and Buffalo victory.
Lander, Rawlins: Out.

Class 3A West
Star Valley: In. No. 1 seed with victory. No. 2 seed with loss.
Jackson: In. No. 1 seed with victory. No. 2 seed with loss.
Green River: Neither in nor out. No. 3 seed with victory. No. 4 seed with loss and Cody victory. Tie for 3-4-5 spots (triangular playoff to break) with loss and Powell victory.
Worland: Neither in nor out. No. 3 seed with victory and Cody victory. Tie for 3-4-5 spots (triangular playoff to break) with victory and Powell victory. Tie for 4-5-6 spots (triangular playoff to break) with loss and Cody victory. Out with loss and Powell victory.
Powell: Neither in nor out. Tie for 3-4-5 spots (triangular playoff to break) with victory and Worland victory. No. 4 seed with victory and Green River victory. Tie for 4-5-6 spots (triangular playoff to break) with loss and Green River victory. Out with loss and Worland victory.
Cody: Neither in nor out. Tie for 4-5-6 spots (triangular playoff to break) with victory and Green River victory. Out with loss or Worland victory.

Class 2A East
Wheatland: In. No. 1 seed with win. Tie for 1-2-3 seeds (coin flip to break) with loss.
Glenrock: In. No. 2 seed with Wheatland win. Tie for 1-2-3 seeds (coin flip to break) with Big Horn win.
Big Horn: In. Tie for 1-2-3 seeds (coin flip to break) with win. No. 3 seed with loss.
Newcastle: Neither in nor out. No. 4 seed with victory. Out with loss.
Thermopolis: Neither in nor out. No. 4 seed with victory. Out with loss.
Burns, Wright: Out.

Class 2A West
Lovell: In. No. 1 seed with victory. No. 2 seed with loss.
Greybull: In. No. 1 seed with victory. No. 2 seed with loss.
Lyman: In. No. 3 seed with victory. No. 4 seed with loss.
Mountain View: In. No. 3 seed with victory. No. 4 seed with loss.
Big Piney, Kemmerer, Pinedale: Out.

Class 1A 11-man East
Lingle, Upton-Sundance: In.
Pine Bluffs, Southeast, Tongue River: Neither in nor out.
Lusk, Moorcroft: Out.
The scenarios for the 1A 11-man East Conference, where the Week 8 schedule is Moorcroft vs. Lingle, Southeast vs. Upton-Sundance and Tongue River vs. Pine Bluffs:

Lingle beats Moorcroft Lin US SE TR PB
US win, PB win (See note 1) 1 2 4 3 out
SE win, PB win 1 3 2 out 4
US win, TR win 1 2 4 3 out
SE win, TR win (See note 2) 1 4 3 2 out
Moorcroft beats Lingle Lin US SE TR PB
US win, PB win (See note 1) 2 1 4 3 out
SE win, PB win 1 3 2 out 4
US win, TR win 3 1 4 2 out
SE win, TR win (See note 3) 1 3 2 4 out

Note 1: In both of these scenarios, where Tongue River, Southeast and Pine Bluffs tie at 3-3 in conference, I believe TR gets the 3 seed for its victory against Lingle, and Southeast gets the 4 for beating Pine head to head.
Note 2: In this scenario, where Upton-Sundance, Southeast and Tongue River tie at 4-2, I believe TR gets the 2 seed for beating Lingle, then Southeast gets the 3 seed for beating U-S head-to-head.
Note 3: I’m unclear on how the WHSAA would break a four-way tie in this scenario, but it looks like Tongue River’s loss to Lusk (the highest-ranking non-tied team where teams don’t have equal records) would knock it down to the 4 seed. Then it’s breaking a 3-way tie between Lingle, Upton-Sundance and Southeast, which Lingle earns due to head-to-head victories over both. Southeast is then the 3 seed due to a head-to-head victory over US.

Class 1A 11-man West
Shoshoni: In. No. 1 seed with victory. No. 2 seed with loss.
Riverside: In. No. 1 seed with victory. Tie for 2-3-4 seeds (coin flip to break) with loss and Cokeville victory. No. 3 seed with loss and Wind River victory.
Cokeville: In. No. 3 seed with victory and Riverside victory. Tie for 2-3-4 seeds (coin flip to break) with victory and Shoshoni victory. No. 4 seed with loss.
Rocky Mountain: In. No. 2 seed with Shoshoni and Wind River victories. Tie for 2-3-4 seeds (coin flip to break) with Shoshoni and Cokeville victories. No. 3 seed with Riverside and Wind River victories. No. 4 seed with Riverside and Cokeville victories.
Burlington, Saratoga, Wind River, Wyoming Indian: Out.

Class 1A six-man East
Guernsey-Sunrise, Hulett, Kaycee: In.
Midwest, Normative Services: Neither in nor out.
Hanna, Rock River: Out.
The scenarios for the 1A six-man East Conference, where the Week 8 schedule is Kaycee vs. Hanna, Midwest vs. NSI and Rock River vs. Hulett:

Kaycee beats Hanna Kay Hul Gue NSI Mid
Mid W, RR W 1 2 3 out 4
Mid W, Hul W 1 2 3 out 4
NSI W, RR W 1 2 4 3 out
NSI W, Hul W 1 2 4 3 out
Hanna beats Kaycee Kay Hul Gue NSI Mid
Mid W, RR W (See note 1) 1 2 3 out 4
Mid W, Hul W 3 1 2 out 4
NSI W, RR W (See note 2) 4 1 3 2 out
NSI W, Hul W 2 1 4 3 out

Note 1: I’m not totally sure how this tie between Kaycee, Hulett and Guernsey would be broken, but I assume Guernsey falls to the 3-seed by virtue of its loss to NSI, and Kaycee gets the 1 over Hulett due to head-to-head victory.
Note 2: Of all the scenarios, this one is the most confusing, but I think in this scenario Kaycee falls to the 4 seed due to its loss to the highest-ranked non-tied team, Hanna. That leaves a three-way tie between Hulett, Guernsey and NSI, which Hulett wins with head-to-head victories over both. NSI would get the 2 over Guernsey due to head-to-head victory.

Class 1A six-man West
Meeteetse: In. No. 1 seed.
Snake River: In. No. 2 seed with victory. No. 3 seed with loss.
Farson: In. No. 2 seed with victory. No. 3 seed with loss.
Dubois: In. No. 4 seed.
St. Stephens, Ten Sleep: Out.

–patrick

Updates: Glenrock, Huntley, 2005 all-state, 1972 standings

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A few quick updates:

Found the score and corrected the date for Huntley’s 33-7 victory against Glenrock on Oct. 18, 1963.

Updated the 5A 2005 all-state list to include Jason Johnson, who was an all-state punter for Cheyenne East. Thanks Jason for catching that omission!

Updated the 1972 standings page to add the B Southwest standings, which I inadvertently left off.

All the updates have been made on all the relevant pages.

–patrick

Wyoming football playoff scenarios entering Week 8

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Here is a PRELIMINARY look at potential playoff scenarios entering Week 8.

(Monday update: Class 3A West has been updated to reflect my mistake: Worland is not out of the running yet. // Saturday updates: Class 4A, Class 2A West and Class 1A six-man updates are complete!)

The Week 8 schedule is here.

Class 4A
Gillette: In. No. 1 seed with victory. No. 2 seed with loss.
Cheyenne East: In. No. 1 seed with victory. No. 2 seed with loss and Sheridan loss. No. 3 seed with loss and Sheridan victory.
Sheridan: In. No. 2 seed with victory and East loss. No. 3 seed with victory and East victory. No. 3 seed with loss and Kelly Walsh victory. No. 3 seed with loss, Kelly Walsh loss and Natrona loss. No. 4 seed with loss, Kelly Walsh loss and Natrona victory.
Kelly Walsh: In. No. 4 seed with victory. No. 4 seed with loss and Natrona loss. No. 5 seed with loss and Natrona victory.
Natrona: In. No. 3 seed with victory, Sheridan loss and Kelly Walsh loss. No. 4 seed with victory, Sheridan victory and Kelly Walsh loss. No. 5 seed with victory and Kelly Walsh victory. No. 5 seed with loss.
Cheyenne Central: In. No. 6 seed with victory. No. 7 seed with loss.
Evanston: Neither in nor out. No. 6 seed with victory. Potential for 7 seed, 8 seed or out with loss.
Laramie: Neither in nor out. No. 7 seed with victory and Evanston loss. No. 8 seed with Evanston victory. No. 8 seed with loss and Rock Springs loss. Out with loss, Central loss and Rock Springs victory.
Rock Springs: Neither in nor out. Potential for 7 seed, 8 seed or out with victory. Out with loss. Out with Evanston victory.
Cheyenne South: Neither in nor out. No. 7 seed with victory, Laramie and Evanston losses and Rock Springs victory. No. 8 seed with victory, Laramie victory, Rock Springs victory and Central victory. Out with Evanston victory.
Note: In all cases where Evanston beats Central, Evanston will be No. 6, Central will be No. 7 and Laramie will be No. 8. Here are the seedings if Central beats Evanston:

Central Beats Evanston CC Eva Lar RS CS
South W, Lar W, RS W 6 out 7 out 8
South W, Lar W, RS L 6 8 7 out out
South W, Lar L, RS W 6 out out 8 7
South L, Lar W, RS W 6 out 7 8 out
South L, Lar L, RS W 6 8 out 7 out
South L, Lar W, RS L 6 8 7 out out
South W, Lar L, RS L 6 7 8 out out
South L, Lar L, RS L 6 7 8 out out

Class 3A East
Douglas: In. No. 1 seed.
Riverton: In. No. 2 seed with victory. No. 3 seed with loss.
Lander: In. No. 2 seed with victory. No. 3 seed with loss.
Torrington: In. No. 4 seed.
Rawlins, Buffalo: Out.

Class 3A West (updated 10-21)
Powell: In. No. 1 seed.
Star Valley: In. No. 2 seed with victory. No. 3 seed with loss and Cody loss. Tie for 2-3-4 spots (and coin flip to break) with loss and Cody victory.
Jackson: Neither in nor out. No. 2 seed with victory and Cody loss. Tie for 2-3-4 spots (and coin flip to break) with victory and Cody victory. No. 4 seed with loss and Cody victory. Tie for 3-4-5 spots (and playoff to break) with loss and Cody loss.
Cody: Neither in nor out. No. 3 seed with victory and Star Valley victory. Tie for 2-3-4 spots (and coin flip to break) with victory and Star Valley loss. Tie for 3-4-5- spots (and playoff to break) with loss and Star Valley victory. Eliminated with loss and Star Valley loss.
Worland: Neither in nor out. No. 4 seed with victory and Jackson victory. Tie for 3-4-5 spots (and playoff to break) with victory and Jackson loss. Eliminated with loss.
Green River: Out.

Class 2A East
Burns: In. No. 1 seed.
Big Horn: In. No. 2 seed.
Wheatland: In. No. 3 seed with victory. No. 4 seed with loss.
Newcastle: In. No. 3 seed with victory. No. 4 seed with loss.
Glenrock, Tongue River, Moorcroft, Wright: Out.

Class 2A West
Lovell: In. No. 1 seed.
Mountain View: In. No. 2 seed with victory or Lyman loss. No. 3 seed with loss and Lyman victory.
Thermopolis: Neither in nor out. No. 4 seed with victory and Lyman victory. Three-way playoff participant with victory and Greybull victory. Eliminated with loss.
Lyman: Neither in nor out. No. 2 seed with victory and Mountain View loss. No. 3 seed with victory and Mountain View victory. No. 4 seed with loss and Thermopolis loss. Three-way playoff participant with loss and Thermopolis victory.
Greybull: Neither in nor out. No. 3 seed with victory and Thermopolis loss. Three-way playoff participant with victory and Thermopolis victory. Eliminated with loss.
Big Piney: Neither in nor out. No. 4 seed with victory, Pinedale victory and Lyman victory only. Eliminated in all other scenarios.
Pinedale: Neither in nor out. No. 4 seed with victory, Lovell victory and Lyman victory only. Eliminated in all other scenarios.
Kemmerer: Out.

Lyman beats Greybull Lym MV The Gre BP Pin
BP W, MV W, The W 3 2 4 out out out
BP W, MV W, The L 3 2 out out 4 out
BP W, MV L, The W 2 3 4 out out out
BP L, MV W, The W 3 2 4 out out out
BP W, MV L, The L 2 3 out out 4 out
BP L, MV W, The L 3 2 out out out 4
BP L, MV L, The W 2 3 4 out out out
BP L, MV L, The L 2 3 out out out 4
Greybull beats Lyman
BP W, MV W, The W 345 2 345 345 out out
BP W, MV W, The L 4 2 out 3 out out
BP W, MV L, The W 345 2 345 345 out out
BP L, MV W, The W 345 2 345 345 out out
BP W, MV L, The L 4 2 out 3 out out
BP L, MV W, The L 4 2 out 3 out out
BP L, MV L, The W 345 2 345 345 out out
BP L, MV L, The L 4 2 out 3 out out

Class 1A 11-man East
Lusk: In. No. 1 seed.
Southeast: In. No. 2 seed with victory. No. 3 seed with loss.
Lingle: In. No. 2 seed with victory. No. 3 seed with loss.
Upton-Sundance: Neither in nor out. No. 4 seed with victory. Out with loss.
Pine Bluffs: Neither in nor out. No. 4 seed with victory. Out with loss.

Class 1A 11-man West
Cokeville: In. No. 1 seed.
Rocky Mountain: In. No. 2 seed.
Shoshoni: Neither in nor out. No. 3 seed with victory and Riverside loss. No. 4 seed with Riverside victory. Tie for 3-4-5 spots (and playoff to break) with loss and Riverside loss.
Riverside: Neither in nor out. No. 3 seed with victory. Tie for 3-4-5 spots (and playoff to break) with loss and Shoshoni loss. Out with loss and Shoshoni victory.
Burlington: Neither in nor out. No. 4 seed with victory and Shoshoni victory. Tie for 3-4-5 spots (and playoff to break) with victory and Shoshoni loss. Out with loss.
Wind River: Out.

Class 1A six-man East
Midwest: In. No. 1 seed.
Kaycee: In. No. 2 seed with victory. No. 3 seed with loss and Hulett loss. No. 4 seed with loss and Hulett victory.
Guernsey-Sunrise: In. No. 2 seed with victory. No. 3 seed with loss and Hulett loss. No. 4 seed with loss and Hulett victory.
Hulett: Neither in nor out. No. 3 seed with victory. Out with loss.
Saratoga: Neither in nor out. No. 4 seed with victory and Hulett loss. Out with loss or Hulett victory.
Hanna: Neither in nor out. No. 4 seed with victory and Hulett loss. Out with loss or Hulett victory.
NSI: Out.

Class 1A six-man West
Meeteetse: In. No. 1 seed.
Dubois: In. No. 2 seed.
Snake River: In. No. 3 seed with victory or Farson loss. No. 4 seed with loss and Farson victory.
Farson: In. No. 3 seed with victory and Snake River loss. No. 4 seed with loss or Snake River victory.
Wyoming Indian, Ten Sleep, St. Stephens: Out.

–patrick

Six years of standings added to Wyoming-football.com: 1986, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996

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Standings for six years of Wyoming high school football have been added to the site.

Standings have now been posted for 1986, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995 and 1996.

To see all available year-by-year standings, click here.

In the process of adding standings, I realized a couple mistakes. First and foremost, I fixed a score from the 1992 season. On Oct. 2, Riverside beat Hanna 48-14; I had the score reversed, with Hanna winning. Thanks to Karla Pomeroy at the Basin Republican-Rustler for her help in verifying this fix!

Second, I realized I had miscalculated a couple season records. I miscounted Mountain View’s 1996 record — that year, the Buffalos went 6-3, not 7-2. I also fixed Saratoga’s 1990 record — the Panthers were 4-4, not 5-2. In an unrelated fix, I also corrected Sheridan’s record in 1974 — the Broncs were 3-6, not 2-7. The fixes are reflected on all the relevant pages.

–patrick

Year-by-year conference standings added to wyoming-football.com

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Year-by-year conference standings have been added to the records available here at wyoming-football.com.

Conference standings are available back to 1967, although not all years between then and now are available. Regular-season power ratings are also available for the 2001-08 seasons.

To see the conference standings that are available, check out the results by year page.

–patrick