Kelly Walsh senior Chris Pickering was one of 13 athletes from across the country recognized with a Lead ‘Em Up Green 13 Award, recognizing exceptional leadership and character.
Visit leademup.com for more on Pickering’s award.
–patrick
Ted Holmstrom, whose previous head football coaching stops in the state took him to Lyman, Laramie and Riverside, will be the new head football coach at Rock Springs.
Rock Springs High School announced the hiring on its Facebook page on Wednesday.
Holmstrom was the head coach in Lyman for three years, from 2009-11, helping the Eagles ta state title game appearance in his final season. He also was the head coach at Laramie in 2012 and Riverside to start the 2013 season.
Since then, Holmstrom spent the 2015 season as the offensive coordinator at Vermilion Community College in Minnesota, the 2016-18 seasons as the head coach at Hancock Central High School in Michigan, and most recently, the head coach at Mobridge-Pollock High School in South Dakota for one season.
Prior to coming to Laramie, he coached at the high school and college levels in Michigan.
He replaces Mark Lenhardt, who left Rock Springs to take the head coach’s spot at Riverton.
Statewide, Glenrock, Wheatland, Guernsey, Saratoga and Wright are also searching for a head coach for next season. Meanwhile, Campbell County, Evanston, Green River, Lander, Riverton and Rocky Mountain have hired a new head coach for the 2023 season. If you know of other head coaching changes in the state, please email me at pschmiedt@yahoo.com.
–patrick
Post updated at 10:15 p.m. May 10 to correct an error in the coaching history.
With the archive of weekly football rankings complete, I wanted to turn my attention to something that I now have the opportunity to fully research and expand upon: the shared state championship.
Several championships were already listed as shared on my state champions listings. In the pre-playoff, polls-only era, this isn’t unprecedented. However, with both the complete AP and UPI rankings now fully available, it’s afforded me a chance to look back at season-ending polls to see if everything matches up.
In short, it doesn’t. And that’s what this post is designed to do — give some teams the props, and championships, they’ve earned but not had listed here.
This isn’t a new exploration of mine. When I first worked through shared champions in 2009 on this site, I made the decision to solely accept the UPI polls. With the extended research, though, I’ve come to the realization that both the AP and UPI polls were just about as equally valid, run just as often and about just as far and wide across the state as each other.
I defaulted to the UPI rankings because they were the favorite of my adopted hometown paper, and later my employer, the Casper Star-Tribune, which often didn’t even run the AP rankings for an entire season. But the AP rankings definitely had validity, and they need to be recognized as such. That means this site should accept the champions of both the AP and UPI polls, not just the UPI.
So that’s what I’m doing.
This means four teams — Torrington and Glenrock from 1972, Deaver-Frannie from 1971 and Cheyenne Central from 1966 — will retroactively have the championships they earned in those years added to the site. All four were AP champions in some form:
- Torrington and Glenrock were AP champions in their respective classes (A and B) 1972, as opposed to UPI champions Star Valley and St. Mary’s.
- Glenrock and Deaver-Frannie tied for the top of the Class B rankings in the final AP poll in 1971, whereas Glenrock won the UPI poll outright.
- Cheyenne Central and Powell tied atop the final AP poll of the 1966 season, as Powell won the UPI outright.
Two other final polls where teams shared the top spot in the polls were NOT added for the following reasons:
- The 1971 AA final polls’ top spots were shared between Laramie (AP) and Natrona (UPI). However, by 1971 Class AA had a championship game, which Laramie won. Likewise, the final polls were taken prior to the championship game, in which Laramie beat Rock Springs.
- In 1961, Greybull (AP) and Laramie (UPI) finished atop the final polls of the season. These, too, came before the playoffs, in which Greybull as a Class A school was involved. Greybull’s loss to Buffalo in the Class A semifinals ended its title run and could not be accounted for in the polls, leaving Laramie as the sole Class AA title claimant and Star Valley, the team that beat Buffalo in the Class A championship game, as the titleist for that class.
Other shared championships that are already listed will remain, including Byron and Glenrock sharing the 1968 Class B championship, Sheridan and Laramie sharing the 1958 Class AA championship, and Sheridan and Natrona sharing the 1957 Class AA championship.
Shared titles before the start of statewide polls in the mid-1950s were “by acclaim” champions, as no formal polling system existed prior to the AP/UPI polls, and in earlier days the polls by the Wyoming Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association.
Researching the polls week to week has given me significantly more insight to the processes used in these times to choose a state champion. I think these updates accurately reflect the sentiment at the time.
And it makes me glad that we have playoffs these days.
–patrick
Campbell County’s new head football coach is a Gillette native and Camel alumnus.
Orah Garst, who comes to Gillette off of four years at the University of Nebraska and 14 years of college coaching and recruiting, will be the Camels’ new head coach this season.
The Gillette News-Record first reported Garst’s hiring on Thursday.
Garst’s resume includes four years with the Cornhuskers, where he led recruiting efforts via graphic design and was also a coach on offense. Prior to that, he was at both Baylor and TCU in similar roles and also spent a year at Southwestern Assemblies of God University coaching linebackers and leading recruiting efforts.
His longest coaching stint was at Trinity Bible College, where he spent 2009 to 2015 as a defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach.
He graduated from Campbell County High School in 2006. His hiring was approved Tuesday by the Campbell County School District No. 1 school board.
Statewide, Rock Springs, Glenrock, Wheatland, Guernsey, Saratoga and Wright are also searching for a head coach for next season. Meanwhile, Evanston, Green River, Lander, Riverton and Rocky Mountain have hired a new head coach for the 2023 season. If you know of other head coaching changes in the state, please email me at pschmiedt@yahoo.com.
–patrick
Wheatland is on the search for a new head football coach.
Cody Bohlander, the Bulldogs’ head coach the past five seasons, resigned in March to pursue a career opportunity outside teaching and coaching, he said in an email to wyoming-football.com on Wednesday.
Bohlander said the new job will afford him more time with his family and will allow him to stay in Wheatland.
“As for now, I do not intend to coach again for the time being,” he wrote. “It was a tough choice to leave football and coaching, but I will forever be grateful for all the kids, coaches, and officials I was able to work with during my time as a coach for Wheatland.”
Wheatland reached the Class 2A semifinals twice in the past five years, in 2018 and 2021. Combined, Bohlander’s Bulldog teams went 27-22.
Statewide, Campbell County, Rock Springs, Glenrock, Guernsey, Saratoga and Wright are also searching for a head coach for next season. Meanwhile, Evanston, Green River, Lander, Riverton and Rocky Mountain have hired a new head coach for the 2023 season. If you know of other head coaching changes in the state, please email me at pschmiedt@yahoo.com.
–patrick
Adam Shankle, who was Wright’s head coach for the 2022 football season, has resigned to become an assistant principal in Rock Springs.
Shankle will be working with both Sage and Stagecoach elementaries in Rock Springs. His hiring was approved by the Sweetwater County School District No. 1 board on April 11.
Shankle’s Panthers went 2-6 last season and missed the Class 1A nine-man playoffs.
Wright co-activities director and former head coach Larry Yeradi said the timetable for hiring a new head coach is tentative. However, the position opened last week, Yeradi said.
Statewide, Campbell County, Rock Springs, Glenrock, Guernsey and Saratoga are also searching for a head coach for next season. Meanwhile, Evanston, Green River, Lander, Riverton and Rocky Mountain have hired a new head coach for the 2023 season. If you know of other head coaching changes in the state, please email me at pschmiedt@yahoo.com.
–patrick
Former Evanston head coach Jim Burton will be the new coach in Lander.
Burton’s hiring was approved Tuesday at the Fremont County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees meeting. He will also teach science at Lander.
Burton verified his hiring via email to wyoming-football.com on Saturday.
“We are looking to build on the successes from the previous staff,” Burton said. “The school and staff have been very welcoming and my family and I are all excited to get started.”
Burton was the head coach in Evanston for four seasons and was an assistant coach and middle school coach for seven years prior to that. He also coached in Utah for six years prior to that. With Burton as head coach, the Red Devils were 8-27. In Lander, Burton takes over a program that has made the playoffs each of the past five years but has not won a playoff game since 2004.
He takes over for John Scott, who retired after last season.
Statewide, Campbell County, Rock Springs, Glenrock, Guernsey and Saratoga are also searching for a head coach for next season. Meanwhile, Evanston, Green River, Riverton and Rocky Mountain have hired a new head coach for the 2023 season. If you know of other head coaching changes in the state, please email me at pschmiedt@yahoo.com.
–patrick
Steve Moore, who has been an assistant coach with the Evanston football team, will be the Red Devils’ new head coach in 2023.
The news was first shared by the Uinta County Herald on Facebook on Friday, and Moore verified the hiring via email to wyoming-football.com on Saturday.
Moore is an alumnus of Evanston High School, graduating in 1995. He said he has been an assistant coach with the Evanston football and wrestling programs at both the middle and high school levels for 20 years. He teaches social studies at Evanston High. He takes over for Jim Burton, who resigned after four seasons.
Statewide, Campbell County, Rock Springs, Lander, Glenrock, Guernsey and Saratoga are also searching for a head coach for next season. Meanwhile, Green River, Riverton and Rocky Mountain have hired a new head coach for the 2023 season. If you know of other head coaching changes in the state, please email me at pschmiedt@yahoo.com.
–patrick
Former Rocky Mountain player and, more recently, assistant coach Jessee Wilson will take over as the Grizzlies’ head football coach this season.
The move comes as former head coach Richard Despain has resigned to take over as the activities coordinator and athletic director at Powell High School. Despain has taught and coached in the Powell schools for more than 20 years and had been the head football coach at Rocky Mountain since 2016.
Wilson’s hiring was finalized Thursday at the meeting of the Bighorn County School District No. 1 board and was announced Monday on the Rocky Mountain football Facebook page:
Wilson and Despain also confirmed the changes Tuesday via email to wyoming-football.com.
Wilson is a 2011 graduate of RMHS and played football at Dickinson State for a year and the University of Wyoming for three years, where he finished his career. He has been an assistant football coach at Rocky Mountain for seven years, the past two as defensive coordinator, and teaches middle school science at Rocky Mountain.
Under Despain, the Grizzlies went 42-23. The 2020 team picked up the program’s first playoff victory since 2000, and the 2021 team reached the Class 1A nine-man championship game. The Grizzlies were playoff semifinalists in both 2020 and 2022; the program is 23-6 the past three years.
His hiring as Powell’s activities coordinator was approved March 21 by the Park County School District No. 1 board of trustees and will begin with the 2023-24 school year.
Statewide, Campbell County, Rock Springs, Evanston, Lander, Glenrock, Guernsey and Saratoga are also searching for a head coach for next season. Meanwhile, Green River and Riverton have hired a new head coach for the 2023 season. If you know of other head coaching changes in the state, please email me at pschmiedt@yahoo.com.
–patrick
Since 1984 and the start of the “one-poll” era of Wyoming high school football, a No. 1-ranked team has met a No. 2 team from the same classification 223 times.
And, as expected, the No. 1 teams win more often — although not by as much as you might think.
Overall, No. 1-ranked teams have the advantage, holding a record of 139-84 (.623) in those matchups.
Of the 223 1-vs-2 games in the past 39 years, 117 have come in the regular season and another 106 have come in the playoffs.
In regular-season games, No. 1 teams have a 72-45 (.615) record against No. 2-ranked teams. In the playoffs, No. 1 teams are slightly better, at 67-39 (.632), than in the regular season.
Combined, the No. 1 teams are 65-45 (.591) at home and 48-28 (.632) on the road. In neutral site contests, No. 1 teams are 26-11 (.703).
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Here are all the No. 1-vs. No. 2 games in Wyoming high school football since 1984. This list does not include games of teams ranked 1 or 2 in different classifications. Road team listed first; bolded teams won the game; *-at Laramie.
2022
4A Week 5: #1 Cheyenne East 39 #2 Sheridan 42
*4A Championship: #2 Cheyenne East 23 #1 Sheridan 34
3A Week 6: #1 Cody 35 #2 Star Valley 25
*3A Championship: #2 Star Valley 14 #1 Cody 7
2A Week 3: #1 Lovell 12 #2 Lyman 6 OT
*2A Championship: #1 Lovell 7 #2 Big Horn 8
1A nine-man Week 1: #2 Pine Bluffs 34 #1 Shoshoni 26
*1A nine-man Championship: #2 Shoshoni 27 #1 Pine Bluffs 33
1A six-man Week 2: #1 Snake River 44 #2 Dubois 28
2021
4A Week 3: #2 Sheridan 27 #1 Rock Springs 24
*4A Championship: #1 Rock Springs 27 #1 Sheridan 45
3A Week 4: #1 Cody 38 #2 Powell 14
3A Week 8: #1 Cody 21 #2 Jackson 15
*3A Championship: #2 Jackson 24 #1 Cody 41
1A nine-man Week 5: #2 Pine Bluffs 34 #1 Shoshoni 25
*1A six-man Championship: #2 Encampment 24 #1 Snake River 65
2020
4A Week 2: #2 Cheyenne Central 20 #1 Sheridan 17
4A Week 3: #2 Thunder Basin 26 #1 Cheyenne Central 38
3A Week 8: #2 Cody 48 #1 Jackson 6
3A Championship: #2 Jackson 13 #1 Cody 34
2A Week 2: #2 Mountain View 12 #1 Lovell 9
2A Week 8: #2 Lyman 21 #1 Mountain View 15
1A six-man Week 3: #2 Encampment 32 #1 Farson 74
1A six-man Week 5: #1 Farson 47 #2 Kaycee 13
1A six-man Week 7: #2 Meeteetse 16 #1 Farson 35
1A six-man Championship: #2 Meeteetse 30 #1 Farson 42
2019
4A Week 3: #2 Sheridan 30 #1 Thunder Basin 37
*4A Championship: #2 Sheridan 35 #1 Thunder Basin 26
3A Week 7: #1 Star Valley 20 #2 Cody 7
*2A Championship: #2 Buffalo 14 #1 Mountain View 24
1A 11-man Week 4: #1 Big Horn 27 #2 Upton-Sundance 0
1A six-man Week 6: #2 Farson 0 #1 Snake River 53
*1A six-man Championship: #1 Snake River 71 #2 Hanna 38
2018
4A Week 2: #1 Sheridan 7 #2 Natrona 34
*3A Championship: #2 Torrington 14 #1 Star Valley 35
2A Week 4: #2 Buffalo 23 #1 Glenrock 16
*2A Championship: #2 Mountain View 18 #1 Buffalo 43
1A 11-man Week 5: #1 Big Horn 42 #2 Pine Bluffs 7
*1A 11-man Championship: #2 Cokeville 3 #1 Big Horn 56
1A six-man Week 5: #2 Meeteetse 0 #1 Farson 64
2017
4A Week 2: #2 Natrona 34 #1 Sheridan 37 OT
*4A Championship: #2 Natrona 14 #1 Sheridan 28
2A Week 1: #1 Glenrock 12 #2 Greybull 7
*2A Championship: #2 Mountain View 35 #1 Glenrock 28
1A six-man SF: #2 Burlington 38 #1 Kaycee 47
2016
4A Week 5: #2 Campbell County 24 #1 Sheridan 21
3A SF: #1 Star Valley 61 #2 Douglas 42
1A 11-man Week 8: #2 Tongue River 20 #1 Upton-Sundance 32
*1A six-man Championship: #2 Kaycee 41 #1 Farson 30
2015
4A Week 5: #1 Sheridan 14 #2 Campbell County 20
*4A Championship: #2 Sheridan 38 #1 Campbell County 31
3A Week 4: #2 Star Valley 13 #1 Cody 0
*1A six-man Championship: #1 Meeteetse 32 #2 Kaycee 51
2014
4A Week 3: #2 Natrona 47 #1 Campbell County 7
3A Week 1: #1 Powell 18 #2 Douglas 17
3A Week 7: #2 Douglas 15 #1 Riverton 3
*3A Championship: #1 Douglas 0 #2 Cody 19
*2A Championship: #1 Big Horn 19 #2 Mountain View 28
*1A 11-man Championship: #1 Cokeville 26 #2 Lusk 6
*1A six-man Championship: #1 Guernsey-Sunrise 80 #2 Dubois 30
2013
4A Week 5: #2 Sheridan 10 #1 Campbell County 39
4A Week 8: #1 Campbell County 41 #2 Cheyenne East 6
4A SF: #2 Natrona 14 #1 Campbell County 7
*3A Championship: #1 Powell 19 #2 Douglas 13 OT
*1A 11-man Championship: #1 Lusk 12 #2 Cokeville 13
1A six-man Week 4: #2 Meeteetse 56 #1 Dubois 46
2012
4A Week 1: #1 Natrona 38 #2 Sheridan 13
4A Week 8: #2 Campbell County 17 #1 Natrona 20
*4A Championship: #2 Campbell County 7 #1 Natrona 35
3A Week 5: #2 Star Valley 0 #1 Powell 13
*3A Championship: #2 Star Valley 10 #1 Powell 13
2A Week 3: #1 Lovell 6 #2 Lyman 20
1A six-man Week 2: #2 Dubois 43 #1 Snake River 36
*1A six-man Championship: #1 Dubois 54 #2 Snake River 30
2011
4A Week 1: #1 Sheridan 6 #2 Natrona 20
2A Week 3: #2 Lyman 7 #1 Lovell 21
*2A Championship: #2 Lyman 13 #1 Lovell 21
*1A 11-man Championship: #2 Cokeville 28 #1 Southeast 13
1A six-man Week 2: #1 Snake River 66 #2 Dubois 24
*1A six-man Championship: #1 Snake River 54 #2 Dubois 33
2010
4A Week 6: #2 Campbell County 32 #1 Natrona 47
*4A Championship: #2 Sheridan 14 #1 Natrona 34
3A Week 4: #2 Buffalo 7 #1 Douglas 22
2A Week 5: #1 Thermopolis 7 #2 Big Horn 42
*2A Championship: #2 Thermopolis 13 #1 Big Horn 9
*1A 11-man Championship: #2 Lusk 6 #1 Cokeville 26
1A six-man Week 6: #1 Snake River 50 #2 Hanna 34
*1A six-man Championship: #2 Hanna 12 #1 Snake River 67
2009
4A Week 7: #2 Cheyenne Central 20 #1 Sheridan 28
*4A Championship: #2 Cheyenne Central 15 #1 Sheridan 40
2A Week 1: #1 Glenrock 26 #2 Kemmerer 6
1A six-man Week 3: #1 Guernsey 72 #2 Hanna 12
1A six-man Week 7: #1 Guernsey 63 #2 Midwest 20
2008
5A Week 0: #1 Green River 14 #2 Natrona 12
3A Championship: #1 Kemmerer 0 #2 Glenrock 18
2A Championship: #2 Big Horn 12 #1 Burns 41
1A Championship: #2 Southeast 12 #1 Burlington 0
2007
5A Week 5: #2 Cheyenne East 35 #1 Evanston 26
5A Week 8: #2 Cheyenne Central 3 #1 Natrona 27
4A Championship: #2 Buffalo 6 #1 Jackson 10
3A Championship: #2 Glenrock 0 #1 Kemmerer 22
2A Championship: #2 Riverside 21 #1 Big Horn 20
2006
3A Week 3: #1 Mountain View 8 #2 Kemmerer 0
2A Championship: #2 Southeast 8 #1 Riverside 6
1A Championship: #2 Guernsey-Sunrise 14 #1 Cokeville 12
2005
5A Week 6: #1 Campbell County 17 #2 Natrona 23 OT
4A Week 1: #2 Lander 20 #1 Buffalo 45
4A Championship: #1 Buffalo 17 #2 Star Valley 14
3A Week 4: #2 Big Piney 13 #1 Kemmerer 37
3A Championship: #2 Glenrock 12 #1 Kemmerer 37
2A Week 2: #1 Big Horn 0 #2 Wright 7
2A Week 6: #2 Big Horn 22 #1 Sundance 20
2004
5A Championship: #1 Green River 20 #2 Natrona 0
4A Championship: #2 Lander 10 #1 Buffalo 31
2A Week 6: #1 Upton 8 #2 Big Horn 24
2A Championship: #2 Upton 22 #1 Big Horn 52
1A SF: #2 Guernsey-Sunrise 24 #1 Burlington 21 OT
2003
5A Week 1: #2 Natrona 48 #1 Rock Springs 6
5A Week 5: #2 Campbell County 21 #1 Natrona 35
5A Championship: #2 Campbell County 3 #1 Natrona 28
4A Week 3: #1 Worland 3 #2 Star Valley 0
1A Week 6: #1 Guernsey 0 #2 Southeast 21
1A Championship: #1 Southeast 13 #2 Cokeville 14
2002
5A Championship: #2 Campbell County 14 #1 Rock Springs 36
3A Week 4: #2 Mountain View 28 #1 Glenrock 19
2A Championship: #2 Big Horn 0 #1 Lusk 31
2001
4A Week 1: #1 Powell 31 #2 Douglas 14
4A Week 2: #2 Star Valley 20 #1 Powell 21
3A Week 8: #2 Big Piney 21 #1 Mountain View 14
3A SF: #2 Glenrock 33 #1 Big Piney 34 OT
2A Week 8: #2 Lusk 7 #1 Southeast 21
2000
4A Championship: #1 Campbell County 28 #2 Laramie 7
3A Championship: #1 Powell 14 #2 Rawlins 39
2A Week 5: #2 Big Piney 19 #1 Lyman 35
1A-D1 SF: #1 Lusk 49 #2 Shoshoni 0
1A-D2 Championship: #1 Southeast 41 #2 Big Horn 20
1999
4A Week 7: #2 Campbell County 0 #1 Natrona 35
4A Championship: #2 Campbell County 10 #1 Natrona 13
3A Week 4: #2 Powell 15 #1 Riverton 29
3A Week 8: #1 Riverton 17 #2 Douglas 14
3A Championship: #2 Douglas 6 #1 Riverton 14
2A Week 5: #2 Lyman 52 #1 Big Piney 7
2A Week 7: #1 Lyman 15 #2 Mountain View 15
2A Championship: #2 Lyman 16 #1 Mountain View 6
1998 (no poll after Week 7)
4A Championship: #2 Laramie 7 #1 Campbell County 14
3A Week 6: #2 Wheatland 14 #1 Riverton 17
2A SF: #2 Big Piney 15 #1 Thermopolis 13
1997
4A Week 7: #2 Campbell County 16 #1 Natrona 13 2OT
3A Week 6: #2 Worland 0 #1 Star Valley 31
2A SF: #2 Buffalo 0 #1 Mountain View 18
1A-D1 Championship: #2 Lusk 20 #1 Rocky Mountain 32
1996
3A Week 3: #1 Lander 17 #2 Riverton 3
3A Week 7: #1 Lander 10 #2 Star Valley 14
1A-D1 SF: #2 Moorcroft 34 #1 Rocky Mountain 20
1A-D2 SF: #2 Lingle 0 #1 Cokeville 16
1995 (no poll after Week 7)
4A Week 4: #1 Laramie 27 #2 Green River 14
4A Week 6: #2 Evanston 22 #1 Laramie 36
3A Week 8 (final poll in week 7): #1 Lander 27 #2 Cody 31
3A ½ playoff: #1 Lander 13 #2 Cody 10 (at Riverton)
2A Championship: #2 Buffalo 0 #1 Mountain View 27
1A-D1 Championship: #1 Rocky Mountain 32 #2 Lusk 20
1A-D2 SF: #2 Cokeville 28 #1 Burlington 13
1994
4A Week 3: #1 Green River 0 #2 Natrona 7
4A Championship: #2 Laramie 30 #1 Natrona 9
3A Week 7: #1 Lander 6 #2 Star Valley 15
2A Week 4: #1 Lovell 14 #2 Thermopolis 28
2A Championship: #2 Kemmerer 16 #1 Thermopolis 6
1A 11-man Week 3: #2 Burns 12 #1 Lusk 13
1A 11-man SF: #1 Lusk 6 #2 Cokeville 7
1A nine-man Championship: #2 Hulett 20 #1 Burlington 36
1993
4A Week 5: #1 Sheridan 44 #2 Laramie 21
4A Week 6: #1 Sheridan 15 #2 Campbell County 22
3A Championship: #2 Lander 12 #1 Star Valley 14
2A Week 6: #2 Lovell 0 #1 Buffalo 21
1A 11-man Championship: #1 Rocky Mountain 22 #2 Cokeville 40
1A nine-man Week 7: #1 Meeteetse 22 #2 Burlington 14
1A nine-man Championship: #2 Hulett 20 #1 Meeteetse 23
1992
4A Week 3: #2 Kelly Walsh 18 #1 Sheridan 47
4A Week 6: #2 Campbell County 15 #1 Sheridan 18
4A Championship: #2 Campbell County 9 #1 Sheridan 27
3A Championship: #1 Star Valley 34 #2 Torrington 13
1A 11-man Championship: #2t Wind River 7 #1 Rocky Mountain 10
1A nine-man Week 7: #2 Dubois 41 #1 Meeteetse 22
1991
4A Week 6: #1 Sheridan 35 #2 Campbell County 13
1A nine-man ½ playoffs: #1 Big Horn 22 #2 Hulett 0 (at Gillette)
1990
4A Week 1: #1 Cheyenne Central 35 #2 Natrona 7
4A Week 5: #1 Cheyenne Central 28 #2 Sheridan 20
4A Championship: #2 Sheridan 35 #1 Cheyenne Central 30
3A Week 5: #1 Star Valley 31 #2 Jackson 7
3A Championship: #1 Star Valley 6 #2 Torrington 20
2A Week 4: #2 Thermopolis 46 #1 Glenrock 20
2A Week 6: #2 Lovell 20 #1 Thermopolis 28
2A SF: #2 Buffalo 19 #1 Thermopolis 20
1A 11-man Championship: #1 Sundance 6 #2 Cokeville 20
1A nine-man Week 1: #1 Meeteetse 29 #2 Hanna 7
1A nine-man SF: #2 Lingle 14 #1 Meeteetse 8
1989
4A Week 5: #1 Cheyenne Central 13 #2 Natrona 0
4A Championship: #2 Rock Springs 0 #1 Cheyenne Central 32
2A SF: #2 Cokeville 35 #1 Greybull 11
1A nine-man Week 3: #1 Meeteetse 37 #2 Ten Sleep 20
1988
4A Week 6: #1 Rock Springs 14 #2 Green River 6
4A SF: #2 Cheyenne Central 30 #1 Rock Springs 0
3A Championship: #2 Worland 0 #1 Torrington 6
1987
4A Week 8: #2 Campbell County 15 #1 Laramie 21
4A Championship: #2 Rock Springs 14 #1 Laramie 13
3A Week 8: #2 Jackson 28 #1 Star Valley 7
3A SF: #1 Jackson 0 #2 Wheatland 14
2A Week 6: #2 Lovell 22 #1 Greybull 14 OT
2A SF: #2 Pinedale 7 #1 Lovell 20
1A SF: #2 Big Horn 14 #1 Meeteetse 20
1986
4A Championship: #1 Sheridan 44 #2 Rawlins 13
3A Week 8: #1 Torrington 35 #2 Glenrock 0
2A Week 3: #2 Greybull 20 #1 Shoshoni 7
1A Week 8: #2 Midwest 14 #1 Big Horn 21 OT
1985 (poll taken before championship games)
4A Week 4: #1 Natrona 17 #2 Sheridan 13
3A Week 9: #2 Evanston 15 #1 Star Valley 14
3A Championship: #1 Torrington 8 #2 Evanston 47
2A Championship: #1 Shoshoni 18 #2t Seton 7
1A Week 7: #2 Wright 6 #1 Big Horn 25
1A Week 8: #1 Big Horn 14 #2 Midwest 12
1A Championship: #2 Wright 6 #1 Big Horn 7
1984 (poll taken before 4A/3A championship games)
3A Championship: #1 Evanston 21 #2 Wheatland 35
1A Championship: #1 Midwest 8 #2 Cokeville 12
–patrick