Unofficial first-round Wyoming football playoff pairings

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Unofficial first-round playoff matchups. Games will be at 7 p.m. Friday at fields with lights or at 2 p.m. Friday at fields without lights, unless both participating schools can reach a mutual agreement for a different time.

Class 4A
(8) Evanston at (1) Gillette
(5) Kelly Walsh at (4) Natrona
(7) Laramie at (2) Sheridan
(6) Cheyenne Central at (3) Cheyenne East

Class 3A
(4E) Torrington at (1W) Powell
(3W) Cody at (2E) Lander
(4W) Jackson at (1E) Douglas
(3E) Riverton at (2W) Star Valley

Class 2A
(4E) Wheatland at (1W) Lovell
(3W) Lyman at (2E) Big Horn
(4W) Thermopolis at (1E) Burns
(3E) Newcastle at (2W) Mountain View

Class 1A 11-man (final spots to be decided in triangular playoff on Tuesday)
(4E) Upton-Sundance at (1W) Cokeville
(3W) Burlington/Riverside/Shoshoni at (2E) Southeast
(4W) Burlington/Riverside/Shoshoni at (1E) Lusk
(3E) Lingle (2W) Rocky Mountain

Class 1A six-man
(4E) Kaycee at (1W) Meeteetse
(3W) Snake River at (2E) Guernsey
(4W) Farson at (1E) Midwest
(3E) Hulett at (2W) Dubois

–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

NEW dream Wyoming high school football schedule for 2014

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Since I wrote this post back in May, we’ve learned some new facts about Wyoming’s high school football landscape for 2014 and 2015.

We learned Moorcroft and Tongue River were moving to 1A 11-man. We learned Wyoming Indian and Saratoga were leaving six-man for 11-man. We learned Upton and Sundance are going to keep their co-op. We learned Lingle and Cokeville, despite having six-man enrollments, were going to play 11-man football. And we learned conference alignments.

So I knew I had to build a new dream schedule to fit the new conference alignments to update the one I made in May.

The schedule, though, couldn’t be just a nonconference schedule. The schedule had to be a full-on, eight-week, complete schedule, with home and road dates. Building the schedule any other way would leave it full of holes and bye weeks I couldn’t otherwise fix.

I built schedules as much as I could like the WHSAA, meaning I considered geography and competitive equity as much as I could in my decisions. I also did everything in my power to avoid schedules that would give teams either three consecutive home games or three consecutive road games. But I didn’t deal with some things the WHSAA does (see the end of this post for more on that).

Below, you’ll also see something called a JOB week. JOB stands for junior-varsity, out-of-state or bye week. Maybe it’s also my subconscious telling schools they got “jobbed” by me that week for leaving it open… Either way, that week is open for one of those three options: a junior-varsity vs. varsity game, an out-of-state game or a bye. I’ve tried to give most JOB weeks at the 11-man level to schools near state borders to facilitate out-of-state games.

I also didn’t build a 4A schedule. With no changes coming to the big-school division, there is no reason to tear up the schedule that was new this year.

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Class 3A: I maintained the current conference schedules as much as possible, although I had to change a couple host sites in the West. Otherwise, with the conferences remaining static, the changes came in the nonconference schedule.

3A East
Buffalo: at Cody; vs. Powell; vs. Worland; at Douglas; at Riverton; vs. Lander; at Torrington; vs. Rawlins.
Douglas: at Powell; vs. Worland; at Cody; vs. Buffalo; at Lander; at Rawlins; vs. Riverton; vs. Torrington.
Lander: at Star Valley; vs. Cody; vs. Green River; at Torrington; vs. Douglas; at Buffalo; vs. Rawlins; at Riverton.
Rawlins: at Wheatland; vs. Green River; vs. Jackson; at Riverton; vs. Torrington; vs. Douglas; at Lander; at Buffalo.
Riverton: at Green River; vs. Star Valley; at Powell; vs. Rawlins; vs. Buffalo; at Torrington; at Douglas; vs. Lander.
Torrington: at JOB; at JOB; vs. Wheatland; vs. Lander; at Rawlins; vs. Riverton; vs. Buffalo; at Douglas.

3A West
Cody: vs. Buffalo; at Lander; vs. Douglas; at Green River; vs. Jackson; at Star Valley; vs. Powell; at Worland.
Green River: vs. Riverton; at Rawlins; at Lander; vs. Cody; at Worland; vs. Jackson; vs. Star Valley; at Powell.
Jackson: vs. JOB; at Pinedale; at Rawlins; vs. Powell; at Cody; at Green River; vs. Worland; vs. Star Valley.
Powell: vs. Douglas; at Buffalo; vs. Riverton; at Jackson; at Star Valley; vs. Worland; at Cody; vs. Green River.
Star Valley: vs. Lander; at Riverton; vs. JOB; at Worland; vs. Powell; vs. Cody; at Green River; at Jackson.
Worland: vs. Thermopolis; at Douglas; at Buffalo; vs. Star Valley; vs. Green River; at Powell; at Jackson; vs. Cody.

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Class 2A: The big scheduling challenge with an odd number of teams came here. Basically, I had three teams every week with byes — one from each 2A conference and one from the 1A 11-man East. I tried to develop a schedule that would allow two of those three teams to play each other, leaving only one team with a JOB week. So what you see in the 2A schedules are Week 1 nonconference games, with the second nonconference game coming at a different week for every team in the conference.

The 2A East, which had 2A West and 1A 11-man East schools to choose from, didn’t end up with any JOB weeks.

I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to looking at who hosted who in 2013; some teams may make the same road trips in 2014 that they did/will this year. However, no schools are making trips for a third consecutive year, near as I can tell…

2A East
Big Horn: at Tongue River; vs. Burns; vs. Glenrock; at Newcastle; at Thermopolis; vs. Wheatland; at Wright; vs. Moorcroft.
Burns: vs. Southeast; at Big Horn; vs. Newcastle; at Glenrock; at Wheatland; vs. Thermopolis; at Lusk; vs. Wright.
Glenrock: at Lyman; vs. Newcastle; at Big Horn; vs. Burns; at Wright; vs. Kemmerer; at Thermopolis; vs. Wheatland.
Newcastle: vs. Lusk; at Glenrock; at Burns; vs. Big Horn; at Lovell; vs. Wright; at Wheatland; vs. Thermopolis.
Thermopolis: at Worland; vs. Wheatland; at Wright; vs. Lyman; vs. Big Horn; at Burns; vs. Glenrock; at Newcastle.
Wheatland: vs. Rawlins; at Thermopolis; at Torrington; vs. Wright; vs. Burns; at Big Horn; vs. Newcastle; at Glenrock.
Wright: at Moorcroft; vs. Upton-Sundance; vs. Thermopolis; at Wheatland; vs. Glenrock; at Newcastle; vs. Big Horn; at Burns.

2A West
Big Piney: vs. Wyoming Indian; at Mountain View; vs. Kemmerer; at Lovell; at Lyman; vs. Greybull; vs. Pinedale; at JOB.
Greybull: at Riverside; vs. Lyman; vs. Tongue River; at Pinedale; vs. Mountain View; at Big Piney; vs. Lovell; at Kemmerer.
Kemmerer: vs. Wind River; at Lovell; at Big Piney; vs. Mountain View; vs. Pinedale; at Glenrock; at Lyman; vs. Greybull.
Lovell: at Rocky Mountain; vs. Kemmerer; at Mountain View; vs. Big Piney; vs. Newcastle; at Pinedale; at Greybull; vs. Lyman.
Lyman: vs. Glenrock; at Greybull; vs. Pinedale; at Thermopolis; vs. Big Piney; at Mountain View; vs. Kemmerer; at Lovell.
Mountain View: at Cokeville; vs. Big Piney; vs. Lovell; at Kemmerer; at Greybull; vs. Lyman; vs. JOB; at Pinedale.
Pinedale: at Shoshoni; vs. Jackson; at Lyman; vs. Greybull; at Kemmerer; vs. Lovell; at Big Piney; vs. Mountain View.

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Class 1A 11-man: With unbalanced conferences — seven teams in the East, eight in the West — the goal was to do what I could to help out the teams in the East with their nonconference schedules. Some help will be needed from Nebraska, as most of the JOB weeks come for southeast corner schools, and Lingle ended up with a pair of JOB weeks. I considered a Week 6 swap that would have had Lingle playing Glenrock and Kemmerer playing a JOB week, but I couldn’t make the home/road balance work.

Just like I did in 2A, I didn’t consider who hosted who in 2013. But I did consider who hosted in 2012 and 2013 and tried to avoid instances of teams making the same road trip for the third consecutive year. I’m pretty sure I avoided all of those.

1A 11-man East
Lingle: at JOB; vs. Pine Bluffs; vs. Moorcroft; at Lusk; at Upton-Sundance; vs. JOB; at Southeast; vs. Tongue River.
Lusk: at Newcastle; at Moorcroft; vs. Pine Bluffs; vs. Lingle; at Tongue River; at Southeast; vs. Burns; vs. Upton-Sundance.
Moorcroft: vs. Wright; vs. Lusk; at Lingle; at Pine Bluffs; vs. Southeast; vs. Tongue River; at Upton-Sundance; at Big Horn.
Pine Bluffs: vs. Saratoga; at Lingle; at Lusk; vs. Moorcroft; at JOB; vs. Upton-Sundance; at Tongue River; vs. Southeast.
Southeast: at Burns; vs. Tongue River; at Upton-Sundance; vs. JOB; at Moorcroft; vs. Lusk; vs. Lingle; at Pine Bluffs.
Tongue River: vs. Big Horn; at Southeast; at Greybull; vs. Upton-Sundance; vs. Lusk; at Moorcroft; vs. Pine Bluffs; at Lingle.
Upton-Sundance: vs. Burlington; at Wright; vs. Southeast; at Tongue River; vs. Lingle; at Pine Bluffs; vs. Moorcroft; at Lusk.

1A 11-man West
Burlington: at Upton-Sundance; vs. Cokeville; at Riverside; vs. Shoshoni; vs. Wind River; at Saratoga; at Wyoming Indian; vs. Rocky Mountain.
Cokeville: vs. Mountain View; at Burlington; vs. Rocky Mountain; at Saratoga; vs. Wyoming Indian; at Shoshoni; vs. Wind River; at Riverside.
Riverside: vs. Greybull; at Rocky Mountain; vs. Burlington; at Wyoming Indian; vs. Saratoga; at Wind River; at Shoshoni; vs. Cokeville.
Rocky Mountain: vs. Lovell; vs. Riverside; at Cokeville; at Wind River; vs. Shoshoni; vs. Wyoming Indian; at Saratoga; at Burlington.
Saratoga: at Pine Bluffs; vs. Shoshoni; at Wind River; vs. Cokeville; at Riverside; vs. Burlington; vs. Rocky Mountain; at Wyoming Indian.
Shoshoni: vs. Pinedale; at Saratoga; vs. Wyoming Indian; at Burlington; at Rocky Mountain; vs. Cokeville; vs. Riverside; at Wind River.
Wind River: at Kemmerer; at Wyoming Indian; vs. Saratoga; vs. Rocky Mountain; at Burlington; vs. Riverside; at Cokeville; vs. Shoshoni.
Wyoming Indian: at Big Piney; vs. Wind River; at Shoshoni; vs. Riverside; at Cokeville; at Rocky Mountain; vs. Burlington; vs. Saratoga.

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Class 1A six-man: With 13 programs, one school has a JOB week every week. With a seven-six split, I tried to schedule the one open East team against one of the open West teams each week. The one week all the West schools played each other, the leftover East team (in this case, Midwest) got the JOB week.

This schedule also was not built to avoid two-year repeat trips, but it was built to avoid three-year repeats. Potential for several of those existed in six-man, and the schedule was built with those games as primary concerns.

1A six-man East
Guernsey-Sunrise: at JOB; vs. Hulett; at Kaycee; vs. Meeteetse; vs. Rock River; at NSI; vs. Midwest; at Hanna.
Hanna: at Snake River; vs. Kaycee; at Hulett; at Rock River; vs. Farson; at Midwest; vs. NSI; vs. Guernsey-Sunrise.
Hulett: at Ten Sleep; at Guernsey-Sunrise; vs. Hanna; vs. NSI; at Midwest; vs. Dubois; vs. Rock River; at Kaycee.
Kaycee: at Meeteetse; at Hanna; vs. Guernsey-Sunrise; vs. Midwest; at NSI; at Rock River; vs. St. Stephens; vs. Hulett.
Midwest: at Dubois; vs. Rock River; vs. JOB; at Kaycee; vs. Hulett; vs. Hanna; at Guernsey-Sunrise; at NSI.
NSI: at St. Stephens; vs. Snake River; at Rock River; at Hulett; vs. Kaycee; vs. Guernsey-Sunrise; at Hanna; vs. Midwest.
Rock River: at Farson; at Midwest; vs. NSI; vs. Hanna; at Guernsey-Sunrise; vs. Kaycee; at Hulett; vs. Ten Sleep.

1A six-man West
Dubois: vs. Midwest; at Meeteetse; vs. Farson; at Ten Sleep; vs. JOB; at Hulett; vs. Snake River; at St. Stephens.
Farson: vs. Rock River; at St. Stephens; at Dubois; vs. JOB; at Hanna; at Snake River; vs. Ten Sleep; vs. Meeteetse.
Meeteetse: vs. Kaycee; vs. Dubois; at St. Stephens; at Guernsey-Sunrise; vs. Snake River; at Ten Sleep; vs. JOB; at Farson.
St. Stephens: vs. NSI; at Farson; vs. Meeteetse; at Snake River; vs. Ten Sleep; at JOB; at Kaycee; vs. Dubois.
Snake River: vs. Hanna; at NSI; vs. Ten Sleep; vs. St. Stephens; at Meeteetse; vs. Farson; at Dubois; at JOB.
Ten Sleep: vs. Hulett; vs. JOB; at Snake River; vs. Dubois; at St. Stephens; vs. Meeteetse; at Farson; at Rock River.

So…. what do you think? Would this work? What do you want to see with your school’s schedule when the WHSAA releases the new one in November?

FWIW, going through this process makes you understand much more clearly what the WHSAA has to go through. I didn’t have to deal with out-of-state schedules — the WHSAA can’t just say JOB week, they actually have to go find someone for that school to play that week, which is easier said than done — and I also didn’t have to field any requests from schools like the WHSAA does. What the WHSAA has to do to piece together a schedule is much more difficult than I’ve shown here. I’m always excited to see what the schedule looks like, and this November — with all the changes to the classifications — will be especially interesting.

–patrick

Wyoming’s Week 5 kickoff time changes

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Update: 12:24 p.m. Monday

Hanna and Snake River have canceled their game.

Update: 5:51 p.m. Sunday

Wheatland-Moorcroft moved up to 1:30 p.m. Monday. Midwest-Hulett game moved to Moorcroft and will play after the Wheatland-Moorcroft game is complete.

Tongue River-Burns will not be played. Burns will be given a forfeit victory.

Update: 11:47 a.m. Saturday

The Oil Bowl between Natrona and Kelly Walsh has been moved back an hour to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Update: 11:24 a.m. Saturday

The Riverside-Cokeville game will officially be recorded as a forfeit victory for Cokeville.

Update: 10:28 a.m. Saturday

Friday’s game between Riverside and Cokeville will not be made up.

Update: 10:01 a.m. Saturday

The Energy Bowl between Gillette and Sheridan has been moved from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Tongue River and Burns have moved their game to 4 p.m. Monday.

Update: 9:15 a.m. Saturday

The Big Horn-Glenrock game has been rescheduled for 6 p.m. Monday.

Update: 9:02 a.m. Saturday

Kickoff for the Tongue River-Burns game in Burns has been moved to 6 p.m.

The kickoff for the Big Horn-Glenrock game may be pushed back to later today — perhaps 3 or 4 p.m. Watch here for updates.

Update: 8 a.m. Saturday

The Wheatland-Moorcroft game has been moved to 2 p.m. Monday.

The NSI-Guernsey game has been rescheduled for 1 p.m. Monday.

Update: 7:42 a.m. Saturday

Midwest at Hulett has been moved to 4 p.m. Monday.

Update: 8:26 p.m. Friday

Newcastle and Wright have moved their game to 6 p.m. Monday.

The Lusk-Pine Bluffs game has been rescheduled for 2:30 p.m. Monday.

Powell and Star Valley will play at 2 p.m Saturday.

Update: 6:32 p.m. Friday

The Snake River at Hanna game has been moved to 3 p.m. Monday.

Update: 2:47 p.m. Friday

Rocky Mountain and Burlington will play at 1 p.m. Saturday in Burlington.

Update: 2:06 p.m. Friday

The Wyoming Indian-Meeteetse game has moved the kickoff up two hours to 5 p.m., still on Friday.

Upton-Sundance at Southeast has been moved to 2 p.m. Monday.

Update: 1:49 p.m. Friday

The Greybull-Lovell kickoff time has been moved up to 6 p.m., still on Friday.

Update: 11:10 a.m. Friday

The Laramie-Cheyenne South game will move its kickoff up one hour, to 6 p.m. Friday.

Update: 10:52 a.m. Friday

The Newcastle-Wright game will be played at 3 p.m. Saturday.

Update: 10:23 a.m. Friday

Kaycee at Saratoga has been rescheduled for 4 p.m. Monday.

Update: 9:58 a.m. Friday

Worland at Green River has been set for 3 p.m. Saturday.

Lander at Douglas will be played at 2 p.m. Saturday.

The Energy Bowl between Gillette and Sheridan has been scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday.

Rawlins at Torrington has been moved to 4 p.m. Monday.

Update: 8:42 a.m. Friday

Wheatland at Moorcroft football has been rescheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday.

Update: 8:38 a.m. Friday

Rawlins at Torrington has been tentatively rescheduled for 3:30 p.m. Saturday. The game will be played Monday if this time can’t be met.

The Tongue River-Burns game has been pushed back to Saturday; it will be made up at noon.

Update: 8:16 a.m. Friday

Riverton at Buffalo has been rescheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday.

Update: 8:08 a.m. Friday

Rawlins at Torrington has been postponed; no make-up set.

The Energy Bowl between Gillette and Sheridan has been postponed; it’s rescheduled for Saturday, time TBD.

Update: 7:57 a.m. Friday

The Lusk at Pine Bluffs game has been moved to 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

Updates: 7:45 a.m. Friday

Powell at Star Valley has been postponed until Saturday; game time TBD.

The Energy Bowl between Gillette and Sheridan has been postponed; no make-up set yet.

The Newcastle-Wright game has been postponed; no make up set yet.

The Tongue River-Burns game has been pushed back to Saturday; it will be made up at either noon or 1 p.m., according to the Sheridan Press.

Updates: Thursday

The Newcastle at Wright game has been moved to 6 p.m.; it’s still on Friday.

The Big Horn at Glenrock game has been moved to 2 p.m. Saturday.

The Oil Bowl game between Kelly Walsh and Natrona has been moved to 1 p.m. Saturday.

The Upton-Sundance at Southeast game has been rescheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday.

If you know of more games that have been moved, post a comment below or tweet @wyomingfootball. Thanks!

–patrick

Wyoming football conferences set for 2014, 2015 seasons

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The Wyoming High School Activities Association’s board of directors set conference alignments for the 2014 and 2015 football seasons during its first quarterly meeting of the school year on Tuesday.

As reported by the Casper Star-Tribune, the alignments for Class 4A and 3A will be the same but will differ for 2A, 1A 11-man and 1A six-man to incorporate changes brought on by reclassification. New conference alignments will see six schools move: Tongue River and Moorcroft from the 2A East to the 1A 11-man East; Thermopolis from the 2A West to the 2A East; Saratoga from the 1A six-man East to the 1A 11-man West; Wyoming Indian from the 1A six-man West to the 1A 11-man West; and Rock River from sub-varsity to the 1A six-man East.

New conference alignments will be:

Class 2A East: Big Horn, Burns, Glenrock, Newcastle, Thermopolis, Wheatland, Wright.
Class 2A West: Big Piney, Greybull, Kemmerer, Lovell, Lyman, Mountain View, Pinedale.
Class 1A 11-man East: Lingle, Lusk, Moorcroft, Pine Bluffs, Southeast, Tongue River, Upton-Sundance.
Class 1A 11-man West: Burlington, Cokeville, Riverside, Rocky Mountain, Saratoga, Shoshoni, Wind River, Wyoming Indian.
Class 1A six-man East: Guernsey-Sunrise, Hanna, Hulett, Kaycee, Midwest, NSI, Rock River.
Class 1A six-man West: Dubois, Farson, Meeteetse, St. Stephens, Snake River, Ten Sleep.

–patrick

Meeteetse schedules Zero Week game in Texas

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The Meeteetse Longhorns are testing their six-man prowess in the most dramatic way possible — by taking their game to Texas.

The Longhorns will play at Robert Lee, Texas, in the season opener Aug. 30 in Robert Lee. The game will kick off at 7:30 p.m. CDT (6:30 p.m. MDT).

The Robert Lee High School Steers went 10-2 last season, losing in the second round of the Class 1A Six-Man Division 2 playoffs.

Robert Lee is in west-central Texas, about 70 miles southwest of Abilene and about 100 miles east of Midland. And it’s 1,156 miles from Meeteetse, according to Google Maps’ preferred route.

Robert Lee has 42 students in its high school.

Meeteetse, meanwhile, went 6-4 last season, losing to Snake River in the semifinals of the Wyoming six-man playoffs. The Longhorns do return the state’s leading rusher, Seth Bennett, who ran for 1,951 yards last year and also threw for 1,171.

The game marks only the second time a Wyoming high school will play a school from Texas and the first time a Wyoming high school will play in Texas. On Sept. 22, 1939, Natrona beat Pampa, Texas, 18-6 in Casper.

Meeteetse AD Cory Dziowgo said the team is looking to fundraise to help pay for the trip. If you’re interested in helping, you can contact Dziowgo at cdziowgo@park16.k12.wy.us or you can call the school at 307-868-2501.

–patrick

New series beginning in 2013

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Rebels and Punchers. Huskies and Doggers. Buckaroos and Wolves. Together.

In 2013, Wyoming will play host to 22 new high school football series — seven in 11-man, 15 in six-man.

Changes in the six-man ranks will bring us most of the new series. Six of the 14 new series in six-man involve varsity newcomer St. Stephens, who is fielding a varsity football squad for the first time since 1965. Four of the new series involve Wyoming Indian and four involve Saratoga, both newcomers to six-man this year, while three involve fellow six-man newcomer NSI.

Three involve Kaycee, the only school scheduled to play all three six-man programs that were 11-man last year (Saratoga, Wyoming Indian and NSI).

But a few 11-man programs are playing at least a pair of new opponents, as well. Riverside is playing both Big Piney and Pine Bluffs for the first time in 2013; Lingle is scheduled to play both Wright and Burlington for the first time; Burlington, in addition to Lingle, is also playing Thermopolis for the first time; and fairly new co-op Upton-Sundance faces Moorcroft and Rocky Mountain in new series games.

The new series in 2013 include:

Moorcroft/Upton-Sundance

Lingle/Wright

Big Piney/Riverside

Thermopolis/Burlington

Lingle/Burlington

Pine Bluffs/Riverside

Rocky Mountain/Upton-Sundance

Hanna/NSI

Hulett/Saratoga

Kaycee/Wyoming Indian

Kaycee/NSI

Kaycee/Saratoga

NSI/Saratoga

Farson/Wyoming Indian

Saratoga/Snake River

Snake River/Wyoming Indian

St. Stephens/almost everyone (Guernsey-Sunrise, Wyoming Indian, Snake River, Farson, Dubois, Midwest)

–patrick

A modest (2014 nonconference schedule) proposal

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With the new football alignment cutoffs coming into play in 2014, new schedules will have to be constructed by the WHSAA, as well.

The 2013 schedule was little more than a one-year stopgap in the three-year hiatus on reclassification — a hiatus that didn’t apply to football. That means the 2014 schedule is likely to be quite a bit different from the 2013 schedule, which was quite a bit different from the 2012 schedule.

And, with all due respect to the WHSAA, I want to take a crack at designing it.

First of all, a couple assumptions: I build this schedule with the assumptions that current enrollment ADMs will hold (meaning Tongue River and Big Horn drop down to 1A, prompting one school (I’m saying Thermopolis) to move to the 2A East Conference), that Cokeville and Burlington will opt up to 11-man in Class 1A (because the new enrollment cutoffs will have both schools in six-man), that Saratoga and Wyoming Indian will opt to move into 11-man after a year in six-man (because that’s where the enrollment numbers will put them), and that Upton and Sundance will break up their co-op.

I also didn’t design 4A or 1A six-man schedules; those classifications have no out-of-class action, save a random JV game that occasionally pops up in six-man play.

With these assumptions, in 2014, 3A schools, with six teams per conference, will get three nonconference games; 2A schools, with seven teams per conference, get two nonconference games; and 1A 11-man schools, with eight teams per conference, get one nonconference game.

Keep in mind that the WHSAA has proven in building schedules that geography and distance are not the lone considerations. Competitive balance is also a big factor in schedule design.

Nevertheless, I tried to have some fun in developing this schedule. I paired together some teams that haven’t played each other in a while (or have never played before) and I increased out-of-state play (easier said than done). I also tried to bring back natural regional rivalries, so games like Douglas-Glenrock, Sundance-Moorcroft, Greybull-Riverside, Wheatland-Torrington and Burns-Pine Bluffs were keys — and starting points — on my schedule.

Of course, several changes could have been made here. The last game I finalized (and, therefore, the game I like the least) is the Week 2 game between Newcastle and Big Piney. The second-to-last game I finalized was the Week 2 game between Glenrock and Lyman. Aside from those two games, I think the rest of the schedule is pretty reasonable, given the WHSAA’s past schedules and the desire for both geographically close and competitively equal games:

(Note: Game weeks are in parentheses.)

3A East
Buffalo: (W1) Worland, (W2) Powell and (W3) Cody
Douglas: (W1) Glenrock, (W2) Green River and (W3) Powell
Lander: (W1) Cody, (W2) Star Valley and (W3) Worland
Rawlins: (W1) Wheatland, (W2) Wright and (W3) Jackson
Riverton: (W1) Green River, (W2) Cody and (W3) Star Valley
Torrington: (W1) Somebody in Nebraska, (W2) Wheatland and (W3) Green River

3A West
Cody: (W1) Lander, (W2) Riverton and (W3) Buffalo
Green River: (W1) Riverton, (W2) Douglas and (W3) Torrington
Jackson: (W1) Teton, Idaho, (W2) Pinedale and (W3) Rawlins
Powell: (W1) Somebody in Montana, (W2) Buffalo and (W3) Douglas
Star Valley: (W1) Snake River, Idaho, (W2) Lander and (W3) Riverton
Worland: (W1) Buffalo, (W2) Lovell and (W3) Lander

2A East
Burns: (W1) Pine Bluffs and (W2) Somebody in Nebraska
Glenrock: (W1) Douglas and (W2) Lyman
Moorcroft: (W1) Sundance and (W2) Greybull
Newcastle: (W1) Southeast and (W2) Big Piney
Thermopolis: (W1) Lovell and (W2) Kemmerer
Wheatland: (W1) Rawlins and (W2) Torrington
Wright: (W1) Big Horn and (W2) Rawlins

2A West
Big Piney: (W1) Rocky Mountain and (W2) Newcastle
Greybull: (W1) Riverside and (W2) Moorcroft
Kemmerer: (W1) Wind River and (W2) Thermopolis
Lovell: (W1) Thermopolis and (W2) Worland
Lyman: (W1) Somebody in Utah and (W2) Glenrock
Mountain View: (W1) Cokeville and (W2) Somebody in Utah
Pinedale: (W1) Saratoga and (W2) Jackson

1A 11-man East
Big Horn: Wright
Lingle: Somebody in Nebraska
Lusk: Shoshoni
Pine Bluffs: Burns
Southeast: Newcastle
Sundance: Moorcroft
Tongue River: Burlington
Upton: Wyoming Indian

1A 11-man West
Burlington: Tongue River
Cokeville: Mountain View
Riverside: Greybull
Rocky Mountain: Big Piney
Saratoga: Pinedale
Shoshoni: Lusk
Wind River: Kemmerer
Wyoming Indian: Upton

In an alternate Week 1 schedule where out-of-state games were tough to get, I had Lingle-Shoshoni, Lusk-Newcastle, Southeast-Wheatland and Rawlins-Lyman. Ultimately, though, I figured if Lyman could find a Utah game and Lingle a Nebraska game, that would work better for all eight schools; if that alternative didn’t work, this all-in-state option would suffice.

No matter how the 2014 schedule comes together, I’d consider trying to go through this same exercise yourself. Post your designs below. Going through this process helps you feel a lot of empathy for the process the WHSAA has to go through every year to make a schedule that works for as many programs as possible. It’s tough.

–patrick

The ripple effects of Wyoming’s new football classifications

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A couple weeks ago, the Wyoming High School Activities Association set new cutoffs for the number of teams in each football classification.

The biggest changes come in the small-school ranks, where Class 2A will go from 16 to 14 teams and where a 14-school cutoff line was established in Class 1A to separate 11-man and six-man squads.

The WHSAA’s decision has some ramifications worth deeper consideration:

Scheduling: With an anticipated 14 schools in 2A and Class 1A 11-man (although 1A might be different, and we’ll get to that in a second), the schools in those classifications will have the chance to have one more nonconference game before diving into a six-game conference schedule. This change highlights two important points: the chance for more flexibility in nonconference scheduling (which may reduce total travel for schools) and the ability to have a balanced conference schedule with three home games and three road games.

The WHSAA, which makes all the varsity football schedules statewide, has not had a lot of flexibility in scheduling because of the large, eight-team conferences in 2A and 1A 11-man the past few years. The flexibility afforded by smaller conferences — even if that flexibility is only one additional nonconference game — should help the WHSAA keep some schools closer to home during the first two weeks of the season.

But one of the problems with this option is that it doesn’t account for schools opting up, and two 11-man programs that, if the cutlines existed now, would be classified as six-man would likely do just that, thereby eliminating a week of nonconference flexibility for the 1A 11-man classification.

Opting up/down: With the 1A cutline established where it is — the 14 largest 1A schools as 11-man, the remainder as six-man — at least four schools will probably have tough decisions to make.

Although the final classifications won’t be set until enrollment numbers are collected after this school year, if the enrollments remain consistent from the last reclassification cycle in 2011, two current 11-man schools — Burlington and Cokeville — would be classified as six-man. Cokeville has a long history of opting up in situations like this and would likely be the first in line to move to 11-man; Burlington could follow. And even if Burlington’s enrollment number classifies it as an 11-man school, the program that was right above the Huskies in enrollment in 2011 — Upton — has been adamant about salvaging its 11-man program and avoiding six-man at all costs.

Conversely, two schools that opted down to six-man for the 2013 season — Wyoming Indian and Saratoga — will likely fall into the 11-man classification for 2014. Those schools will have a tough choice to make: stay in six-man and be ineligible for the playoffs, or go back to 11-man after one year in six-man. Either way, the coaches, administrators and players face a difficult conundrum if the enrollment numbers stand up, as they most certainly will for the Chiefs and probably will for Saratoga, especially with the Panthers’ co-op with Encampment in effect.

Normative Services, which will move from 11-man to six-man in 2013, has a stable and low enrollment that should place the Wolves safely in the six-man ranks for years to come.

The Upton-Sundance co-op: Upton and Sundance are entering the second season of their temporary co-op in 2013. If the Patriots want to continue in 2014, though, they face an interesting situation, one that may make it easier for them to stay connected.

One of the big questions the U-S team faced in 2012 was playoff eligibility. To remain eligible, the combined enrollments of the two programs (the total Upton enrollment plus the Sundance male enrollment) had to be smaller than the smallest Class 2A school. It was, just barely, and the Patriots finished 2012 in third place in the 1A 11-man East, qualifying for the playoffs.

With the two largest 2A schools coming down to Class 1A in 2014, though, the enrollment cutoff for the two schools to reach will likely be quite a bit higher, making it easier for the two schools to stay together and remain playoff eligible if they so choose. If participation numbers for the two programs remain in the low teens apiece, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Patriots survive to 2014 and 2015.

Rock River: The Longhorns finished their first season of junior-varsity six-man football last year and are set to play another JV season in 2013. With the school still tentatively scheduled to make the jump to varsity play in 2014, the state will have an uneven number of football programs (65), making scheduling for either the 11-man or the six-man division that much more difficult depending on opt-ups or opt-downs as listed above.

Of course, if the Upton-Sundance co-op remains in tact, the state will have 64 football programs. But even with an even number, opt-ups and opt-downs could create an odd number of schools in BOTH 11-man and six-man at the 1A level, which could be a scheduling nightmare for the WHSAA.

Class 4A and Class 3A: Barring some large shifts in enrollment, Class 4A and Class 3A will remain untouched by these changes in 2014. The only potential shifts in 3A could be in nonconference scheduling, as we may see more 2A-3A interclass games now that 2A schools have an extra week of nonconference scheduling available. We will only see two such games in 2013, and they both, obviously, come in Week 1: Glenrock at Torrington and Rawlins at Kemmerer.

Who moves: This is always the biggest question in any reclassification proposal. For now, only two schools will actually switch classifications, as the smallest two schools in 2A will move to 1A. Using 2011’s ADMs, those schools would be Tongue River and Big Horn. Don’t be surprised if that’s the case: When ADMs were calculated for the last reclassification cycle in 2010, Big Horn was the smallest 2A school at about 140; Tongue River was second-smallest at 145; Moorcroft was third-smallest at 163. Either Big Horn or Tongue River would have had to have done some significant growing, or Moorcroft (or Greybull or Wright) would have had to have done some significant shrinking, to have anyone but the Rams or Eagles move. (But don’t pen the moves in just yet. ADMs are always a little quirky. No one knows where, exactly, they’ll fall until the numbers are finalized.)

The remaining moves will be based on two things: (1) enrollment, although the existing gaps between the smallest 4A/3A schools and the largest 3A/2A schools make such changes seem unlikely, and (2) any six-man to 11-man or 11-man to six-man changes, as outlined above.

Big picture: The WHSAA made some good changes with this proposal. Six-man is now stable enough to support itself — it doesn’t need the “help” of bigger programs dropping down to supplement numbers. The eight-team conferences in 2A and 1A 11-man proved unmanageable, and although seven-team conferences aren’t much better, they are an improvement and should provide some travel relief. New programs at St. Stephens and Rock River should help bolster and stabilize six-man. The proposal has enough flexibility to accommodate an Upton-Sundance co-op (or, for that matter, other co-ops that may develop).

Of course, as with any changes, questions will linger until we have a chance to see the proposal in action. Nevertheless, these changes are good, necessary steps to stability in the small-school classes.

–patrick

2013 Wyoming high school football schedule released

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The 2013 Wyoming high school football schedule was released Tuesday, and although school classification changes are only coming in Class 1A, changes to the schedule have been made in every classification.

Major schedule overhauls were conducted in Class 4A and Class 1A.

Class 1A, both 11-man and six-man, saw the most changes, as three schools departed 11-man for six-man this year and another joined six-man from the junior-varsity ranks. The Class 4A schedule was completely overhauled, as well, while minor changes were made in the Class 2A and 3A schedules.

The Wyoming High School Activities Association has produced the schedules for all Wyoming varsity football teams since 2001. Schedules were distributed to the schools this morning.

Class 1A overhauls are major

The biggest changes in 2013 come in Class 1A, where Normative Services, Saratoga and Wyoming Indian will depart the 11-man ranks for six-man. Six-man also has St. Stephens moving up to the varsity ranks after two seasons of junior-varsity play. Conversely, six-man has been restructured into East and West conferences, with seven schools in each — Guernsey, Hanna, Hulett, Kaycee, Midwest, Normative Services and Saratoga in the East and Dubois, Farson, Meeteetse, St. Stephens, Snake River, Ten Sleep and Wyoming Indian in the West. All six-man schools will play six conference games and two nonconference games.

In 1A 11-man, the conferences remain East-West, with six programs in the West (Burlington, Cokeville, Riverside, Rocky Mountain, Shoshoni and Wind River) and five in the East (Lingle, Lusk, Pine Bluffs, Southeast, Upton-Sundance). The schedule was built to accommodate a split in the Upton-Sundance coop, a pairing scheduled to end after the 2013 season. All but one 1A 11-man program will play a 2A school in the season opener; Pine Bluffs, which has an open week in Week 1, is the lone exception.

Interconference play has been expanded in 1A 11-man this year, as schools play two teams from the opposite conference in the regular season — one at home, one away. One of the marquee regular-season matchups will be a Week 2 showdown between Cokeville and Southeast in Lincoln County.

New 4A schedule switches some home-away patterns; 3A, 2A classes have minor changes

Despite no changes in the classification’s structure, the Class 4A schedule was completely retooled. No school plays a flip-flop schedule from 2012; every team will make at least one road trip that’s exactly the same as the 2012 season. Key among these is the Oil Bowl, which will be played at Kelly Walsh for a second consecutive season next year.

The Class 3A schedule saw the fewest changes. The schedule was flipped from the 2012 schedule in all but two instances, and they’re both in Week 1 — Rawlins will play at Kemmerer rather than Wheatland, and Torrington will play at Glenrock rather than having an open date. The rest of the schedule mirrors the 2012 schedule, with home and road games switched.

In Class 2A, the West Conference schedule was flipped from 2012, but the East Conference schedule was shifted slightly, with the Week 8 schedule moving to Week 2 and the calendar moving down a week thereafter — 2012’s Week 2 will be 2013’s Week 3, Week 3 becomes Week 4 and so on. The changes in 1A’s schedules have shifted some of the Week 1 nonconference opponents, as only three Class 2A schools (Big Horn, Greybull and Mountain View) retain the Week 1 nonconference foe they had in 2012. Big Horn and Greybull continue to play each other, while Mountain View kept its game with Cokeville.

Class 3A, 2A and 1A schools may schedule Week 0 contests on their own, if they so choose. Those games and scrimmages will be set later this year.

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Key games

Here’s a quick glance at some key games, week by week:

Week 0: Cheyenne South at Evanston. The Bison almost picked up their first victory in varsity play in 2012 against the Red Devils. It will be interesting to see if South can finish the job and end the losing streak in the 2013 season opener.

Week 1: Saratoga at Snake River. How will the Panthers stack up in six-man? We’ll find out quickly, as they travel to play one of the most successful programs in the state regardless of classification in the opening week. Other key games: Cheyenne East at Natrona, Douglas at Green River, Riverton at Powell.

Week 2: Big Horn at Newcastle. The two frontrunners in the 2A East in 2012 didn’t meet until Week 8; in 2013, they’ll open the conference slate with each other. Other key games: Green River at Riverton, Southeast at Cokeville, Meeteetse at Snake River.

Week 3: Gillette at Natrona AND Lyman at Lovell. Two rematches of 2012 title games come in the same week in 2013. Other key games: Star Valley at Douglas, Shoshoni at Burlington, Wyoming Indian at St. Stephens.

Week 4: Kemmerer at Thermopolis. The past couple years, this game has been pivotal for success in the second half of the season. Other key games: Cheyenne East at Kelly Walsh, Douglas at Buffalo, Hulett at Kaycee.

Week 5: Cheyenne Central at Cheyenne East, Natrona at Kelly Walsh, AND Sheridan at Gillette. Rivalry week is back! Other key games: Powell at Star Valley, Big Horn at Glenrock, Shoshoni at Wind River, Rocky Mountain at Burlington.

Week 6: Star Valley at Cody. This could be a trap game for the Braves, one week after what is likely to be an emotional rematch against Powell. Other key games: Sheridan at Cheyenne Central, Lyman at Mountain View, Pinedale at Big Piney, Cokeville at Rocky Mountain, Guernsey at Midwest.

Week 7: Lusk at Southeast AND Dubois at Snake River. Once again, the 2013 schedule has paired two title-game combatants from 2012 against one another in the same week. Other key games: Natrona at Sheridan, Cody at Powell, Douglas at Riverton, Green River at Star Valley, Mountain View at Thermopolis, Burlington at Cokeville, Kaycee at Midwest.

Week 8: Powell at Green River. These two schools have gotten very familiar with each other the past two years…. Other key games: Gillette at Cheyenne East, Glenrock at Burns, Shoshoni at Cokeville, Hanna at Saratoga.

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The complete schedules, both by week and by school, are posted below:

By week

Week 0 (Aug. 24-25)
Class 4A: Cheyenne South at Evanston; Gillette at Kelly Walsh; Natrona at Cheyenne Central; Rock Springs at Cheyenne East; Sheridan at Laramie.
Class 3A, Class 2A and Class 1A Week 0 schedules will be set by individual schools.

Week 1 (Aug. 30-Sept. 1)
Class 4A: Cheyenne Central at Cheyenne South; Cheyenne East at Natrona; Evanston at Gillette; Kelly Walsh at Sheridan; Laramie at Rock Springs.
Class 3A: Buffalo at Worland; Douglas at Green River; Lander at Cody; Riverton at Powell.
Class 2A: Greybull at Big Horn; Lyman at Wheatland.
Class 1A six-man: Farson at Midwest; Hanna at Meeteetse; Hulett at Ten Sleep; Kaycee at Wyoming Indian; Normative Services at Dubois; St. Stephens at Guernsey-Sunrise; Saratoga at Snake River.
Interclass: Big Piney at Riverside; Burlington at Thermopolis; Burns at Southeast; Cokeville at Mountain View; Glenrock at Torrington; Lusk at Newcastle; Moorcroft at Upton-Sundance; Pinedale at Shoshoni; Rawlins at Kemmerer; Rocky Mountain at Tongue River; Wind River at Lovell; Wright at Lingle.
Interstate: Star Valley at Snake River, Idaho; Teton, Idaho, at Jackson.
Open: Pine Bluffs.

Week 2 (Sept. 6-8)
Class 4A: Cheyenne South at Cheyenne East; Gillette at Cheyenne Central; Natrona at Laramie; Rock Springs at Kelly Walsh; Sheridan at Evanston.
Class 3A: Cody at Douglas; Green River at Riverton; Lander at Star Valley; Powell at Buffalo; Rawlins at Jackson; Torrington at Worland.
Class 2A: Big Horn at Newcastle; Burns at Wright; Kemmerer at Lyman; Lovell at Pinedale; Moorcroft at Glenrock; Mountain View at Greybull; Thermopolis at Big Piney; Wheatland at Tongue River.
Class 1A 11-man: Lingle at Burlington; Riverside at Pine Bluffs; Shoshoni at Lusk; Southeast at Cokeville; Upton-Sundance at Rocky Mountain.
Class 1A six-man: Farson at Dubois; Guernsey-Sunrise at Hulett; Kaycee at Hanna; Meeteetse at Snake River; Normative Services at Midwest; St. Stephens at Ten Sleep; Wyoming Indian at Saratoga.
Open: Wind River.

Week 3 (Sept. 13-15)
Class 4A: Cheyenne Central at Rock Springs; Cheyenne East at Sheridan; Evanston at Laramie; Gillette at Natrona; Kelly Walsh at Cheyenne South.
Class 3A: Buffalo at Green River; Cody at Riverton; Jackson at Lander; Powell at Torrington; Star Valley at Douglas; Worland at Rawlins.
Class 2A: Big Horn at Burns; Big Piney at Mountain View; Greybull at Thermopolis; Lyman at Lovell; Newcastle at Moorcroft; Pinedale at Kemmerer; Tongue River at Glenrock; Wheatland at Wright.
Class 1A 11-man: Cokeville at Wind River; Lingle at Lusk; Rocky Mountain at Riverside; Shoshoni at Burlington; Southeast at Pine Bluffs.
Class 1A six-man: Dubois at Hulett; Hanna at Guernsey-Sunrise; Normative Services at Kaycee; Saratoga at Midwest; Snake River at Farson; Ten Sleep at Meeteetse; Wyoming Indian at St. Stephens.
Open: Upton-Sundance.

Week 4 (Sept. 20-22)
Class 4A: Cheyenne East at Kelly Walsh; Cheyenne South at Gillette; Laramie at Cheyenne Central; Natrona at Evanston; Rock Springs at Sheridan.
Class 3A: Douglas at Buffalo; Green River at Cody; Jackson at Powell; Riverton at Rawlins; Star Valley at Worland; Torrington at Lander.
Class 2A: Big Piney at Lyman; Burns at Newcastle; Glenrock at Wheatland; Kemmerer at Thermopolis; Lovell at Mountain View; Moorcroft at Tongue River; Pinedale at Greybull; Wright at Big Horn.
Class 1A 11-man: Burlington at Upton-Sundance; Cokeville at Lingle; Lusk at Riverside; Pine Bluffs at Shoshoni; Wind River at Southeast.
Class 1A six-man: Guernsey-Sunrise at Farson; Hulett at Kaycee; Meeteetse at Dubois; Midwest at Hanna; St. Stephens at Snake River; Saratoga at Normative Services; Ten Sleep at Wyoming Indian.
Open: Rocky Mountain.

Week 5 (Sept. 27-29)
Class 4A: Cheyenne Central at Cheyenne East; Evanston at Rock Springs; Laramie at Cheyenne South; Natrona at Kelly Walsh; Sheridan at Gillette.
Class 3A: Cody at Jackson; Lander at Douglas; Powell at Star Valley; Rawlins at Torrington; Riverton at Buffalo; Worland at Green River.
Class 2A: Big Horn at Glenrock; Kemmerer at Big Piney; Lovell at Greybull; Mountain View at Pinedale; Newcastle at Wright; Thermopolis at Lyman; Tongue River at Burns; Wheatland at Moorcroft.
Class 1A 11-man: Lusk at Pine Bluffs; Riverside at Cokeville; Rocky Mountain at Burlington; Shoshoni at Wind River; Upton-Sundance at Southeast.
Class 1A six-man: Dubois at Ten Sleep; Farson at St. Stephens; Kaycee at Saratoga; Midwest at Hulett; Normative Services at Guernsey-Sunrise; Snake River at Hanna; Wyoming Indian at Meeteetse.
Open: Lingle.

Week 6 (Oct. 4-6)
Class 4A: Cheyenne East at Laramie; Cheyenne South at Natrona; Gillette at Rock Springs; Kelly Walsh at Evanston; Sheridan at Cheyenne Central.
Class 3A: Buffalo at Lander; Green River at Jackson; Rawlins at Douglas; Star Valley at Cody; Torrington at Riverton; Worland at Powell.
Class 2A: Big Horn at Wheatland; Burns at Moorcroft; Greybull at Kemmerer; Lyman at Mountain View; Newcastle at Glenrock; Pinedale at Big Piney; Thermopolis at Lovell; Wright at Tongue River.
Class 1A 11-man: Burlington at Wind River; Cokeville at Rocky Mountain; Pine Bluffs at Lingle; Riverside at Shoshoni; Upton-Sundance at Lusk.
Class 1A six-man: Guernsey-Sunrise at Midwest; Hanna at Normative Services; Hulett at Saratoga; Meeteetse at Kaycee; St. Stephens at Dubois; Snake River at Wyoming Indian; Ten Sleep at Farson.
Open: Southeast.

Week 7 (Oct. 11-13)
Class 4A: Cheyenne Central at Kelly Walsh; Evanston at Cheyenne East; Laramie at Gillette; Natrona at Sheridan; Rock Springs at Cheyenne South.
Class 3A: Cody at Powell; Douglas at Riverton; Green River at Star Valley; Jackson at Worland; Lander at Rawlins; Torrington at Buffalo.
Class 2A: Big Piney at Greybull; Glenrock at Wright; Kemmerer at Lovell; Lyman at Pinedale; Moorcroft at Big Horn; Mountain View at Thermopolis; Tongue River at Newcastle; Wheatland at Burns.
Class 1A 11-man: Burlington at Cokeville; Lingle at Upton-Sundance; Lusk at Southeast; Rocky Mountain at Shoshoni; Wind River at Riverside.
Class 1A six-man: Dubois at Snake River; Hulett at Hanna; Kaycee at Midwest; Meeteetse at St. Stephens; Saratoga at Guernsey-Sunrise; Ten Sleep at Normative Services; Wyoming Indian at Farson.
Open: Pine Bluffs.

Week 8 (Oct. 18-20)
Class 4A: Cheyenne Central at Evanston; Cheyenne South at Sheridan; Gillette at Cheyenne East; Kelly Walsh at Laramie; Rock Springs at Natrona.
Class 3A: Buffalo at Rawlins; Douglas at Torrington; Jackson at Star Valley; Powell at Green River; Riverton at Lander; Worland at Cody.
Class 2A: Glenrock at Burns; Greybull at Lyman; Lovell at Big Piney; Mountain View at Kemmerer; Newcastle at Wheatland; Thermopolis at Pinedale; Tongue River at Big Horn; Wright at Moorcroft.
Class 1A 11-man: Pine Bluffs at Upton-Sundance; Riverside at Burlington; Shoshoni at Cokeville; Southeast at Lingle; Wind River at Rocky Mountain.
Class 1A six-man: Dubois at Wyoming Indian; Farson at Meeteetse; Guernsey-Sunrise at Kaycee; Hanna at Saratoga; Midwest at St. Stephens; Normative Services at Hulett; Snake River at Ten Sleep.
Open: Lusk.

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By team
All schedules listed starting with Week 1, except Class 4A, which starts with Week 0

Class 4A
Cheyenne Central: vs. Natrona; at Cheyenne South; vs. Gillette; at Rock Springs; vs. Laramie; at Cheyenne East; vs. Sheridan; at Kelly Walsh; at Evanston.
Cheyenne East: vs. Rock Springs; at Natrona; vs. Cheyenne South; at Sheridan; at Kelly Walsh; vs. Cheyenne Central; at Laramie; vs. Evanston; vs. Gillette.
Cheyenne South: at Evanston; vs. Cheyenne Central; at Cheyenne East; vs. Kelly Walsh; at Gillette; vs. Laramie; at Natrona; vs. Rock Springs; at Sheridan.
Evanston: vs. Cheyenne South; at Gillette; vs. Sheridan; at Laramie; vs. Natrona; at Rock Springs; vs. Kelly Walsh; at Cheyenne East; vs. Cheyenne Central.
Gillette: at Kelly Walsh; vs. Evanston; at Cheyenne Central; at Natrona; vs. Cheyenne South; vs. Sheridan; at Rock Springs; vs. Laramie; at Cheyenne East.
Kelly Walsh: vs. Gillette; at Sheridan; vs. Rock Springs; at Cheyenne South; vs. Cheyenne East; vs. Natrona; at Evanston; vs. Cheyenne Central; at Laramie.
Laramie: vs. Sheridan; at Rock Springs; vs. Natrona; vs. Evanston; at Cheyenne Central; at Cheyenne South; vs. Cheyenne East; at Gillette; vs. Kelly Walsh.
Natrona: at Cheyenne Central; vs. Cheyenne East; at Laramie; vs. Gillette; at Evanston; at Kelly Walsh; vs. Cheyenne South; at Sheridan; vs. Rock Springs.
Rock Springs: at Cheyenne East; vs. Laramie; at Kelly Walsh; vs. Cheyenne Central; at Sheridan; vs. Evanston; vs. Gillette; at Cheyenne South; at Natrona.
Sheridan: at Laramie; vs. Kelly Walsh; at Evanston; vs. Cheyenne East; vs. Rock Springs; at Gillette; at Cheyenne Central; vs. Natrona; vs. Cheyenne South.

Class 3A
East Conference
Buffalo: at Worland; vs. Powell; at Green River; vs. Douglas; vs. Riverton; at Lander; vs. Torrington; at Rawlins.
Douglas: at Green River; vs. Cody; vs. Star Valley; at Buffalo; vs. Lander; vs. Rawlins; at Riverton; at Torrington.
Lander: at Cody; at Star Valley; vs. Jackson; vs. Torrington; at Douglas; vs. Buffalo; at Rawlins; vs. Riverton.
Rawlins: at Kemmerer; at Jackson; vs. Worland; vs. Riverton; at Torrington; at Douglas; vs. Lander; vs. Buffalo.
Riverton: at Powell; vs. Green River; vs. Cody; at Rawlins; at Buffalo; vs. Torrington; vs. Douglas; at Lander.
Torrington: vs. Glenrock; at Worland; vs. Powell; at Lander; vs. Rawlins; at Riverton; at Buffalo; vs. Douglas.
West Conference
Cody: vs. Lander; at Douglas; at Riverton; vs. Green River; at Jackson; vs. Star Valley; at Powell; vs. Worland.
Green River: vs. Douglas; at Riverton; vs. Buffalo; at Cody; vs. Worland; at Jackson; at Star Valley; vs. Powell.
Jackson: vs. Teton, Idaho; vs. Rawlins; at Lander; at Powell; vs. Cody; vs. Green River; at Worland; at Star Valley.
Powell: vs. Riverton; at Buffalo; at Torrington; vs. Jackson; at Star Valley; vs. Worland; vs. Cody; at Green River.
Star Valley: at Snake River, Idaho; vs. Lander; at Douglas; at Worland; vs. Powell; at Cody; vs. Green River; vs. Jackson.
Worland: vs. Buffalo; vs. Torrington; at Rawlins; vs. Star Valley; at Green River; at Powell; vs. Jackson; at Cody.

Class 2A
East Conference
Big Horn: vs. Greybull; at Newcastle; at Burns; vs. Wright; at Glenrock; at Wheatland; vs. Moorcroft; vs. Tongue River.
Burns: at Southeast; at Wright; vs. Big Horn; at Newcastle; vs. Tongue River; at Moorcroft; vs. Wheatland; vs. Glenrock.
Glenrock: at Torrington; vs. Moorcroft; vs. Tongue River; at Wheatland; vs. Big Horn; vs. Newcastle; at Wright; at Burns.
Moorcroft: at Upton-Sundance; at Glenrock; vs. Newcastle; at Tongue River; vs. Wheatland; vs. Burns; at Big Horn; vs. Wright.
Newcastle: vs. Lusk; vs. Big Horn; at Moorcroft; vs. Burns; at Wright; at Glenrock; vs. Tongue River; at Wheatland.
Tongue River: vs. Rocky Mountain; vs. Wheatland; at Glenrock; vs. Moorcroft; at Burns; vs. Wright; at Newcastle; at Big Horn.
Wheatland: vs. Lyman; at Tongue River; at Wright; vs. Glenrock; at Moorcroft; vs. Big Horn; at Burns; vs. Newcastle.
Wright: at Lingle; vs. Burns; vs. Wheatland; at Big Horn; vs. Newcastle; at Tongue River; vs. Glenrock; at Moorcroft.
West Conference
Big Piney: at Riverside; vs. Thermopolis; at Mountain View; at Lyman; vs. Kemmerer; vs. Pinedale; at Greybull; vs. Lovell.
Greybull: at Big Horn; vs. Mountain View; at Thermopolis; vs. Pinedale; vs. Lovell; at Kemmerer; vs. Big Piney; at Lyman.
Kemmerer: vs. Rawlins; at Lyman; vs. Pinedale; at Thermopolis; at Big Piney; vs. Greybull; at Lovell; vs. Mountain View.
Lovell: vs. Wind River; at Pinedale; vs. Lyman; at Mountain View; at Greybull; vs. Thermopolis; vs. Kemmerer; at Big Piney.
Lyman: at Wheatland; vs. Kemmerer; at Lovell; vs. Big Piney; vs. Thermopolis; at Mountain View; at Pinedale; vs. Greybull.
Mountain View: vs. Cokeville; at Greybull; vs. Big Piney; vs. Lovell; at Pinedale; vs. Lyman; at Thermopolis; at Kemmerer.
Pinedale: at Shoshoni; vs. Lovell; at Kemmerer; at Greybull; vs. Mountain View; at Big Piney; vs. Lyman; vs. Thermopolis.
Thermopolis: vs. Burlington; at Big Piney; vs. Greybull; vs. Kemmerer; at Lyman; at Lovell; vs. Mountain View; at Pinedale.

Class 1A 11-man
East Conference
Lingle: vs. Wright; at Burlington; at Lusk; vs. Cokeville; open; vs. Pine Bluffs; at Upton-Sundance; vs. Southeast.
Lusk: at Newcastle; vs. Shoshoni; vs. Lingle; at Riverside; at Pine Bluffs; vs. Upton-Sundance; at Southeast; open.
Pine Bluffs: Open; vs. Riverside; vs. Southeast; at Shoshoni; vs. Lusk; at Lingle; open; at Upton-Sundance.
Southeast: vs. Burns; at Cokeville; at Pine Bluffs; vs. Wind River; vs. Upton-Sundance; open; vs. Lusk; at Lingle.
Upton-Sundance: vs. Moorcroft; at Rocky Mountain; open; vs. Burlington; at Southeast; at Lusk; vs. Lingle; vs. Pine Bluffs.
West Conference
Burlington: at Thermopolis; vs. Lingle; vs. Shoshoni; at Upton-Sundance; vs. Rocky Mountain; at Wind River; at Cokeville; vs. Riverside.
Cokeville: at Mountain View; vs. Southeast; at Wind River; at Lingle; vs. Riverside; at Rocky Mountain; vs. Burlington; vs. Shoshoni.
Riverside: vs. Big Piney; at Pine Bluffs; vs. Rocky Mountain; vs. Lusk; at Cokeville; at Shoshoni; vs. Wind River; at Burlington.
Rocky Mountain: at Tongue River; vs. Upton-Sundance; at Riverside; open; at Burlington; vs. Cokeville; at Shoshoni; vs. Wind River.
Shoshoni: vs. Pinedale; at Lusk; at Burlington; vs. Pine Bluffs; at Wind River; vs. Riverside; vs. Rocky Mountain; at Cokeville.
Wind River: at Lovell; open; vs. Cokeville; at Southeast; vs. Shoshoni; vs. Burlington; at Riverside; at Rocky Mountain.

Class 1A six-man
East Conference
Guernsey: vs. St. Stephens; at Hulett; vs. Hanna; at Farson; vs. NSI; at Midwest; vs. Saratoga; at Kaycee.
Hanna: at Meeteetse; vs. Kaycee; at Guernsey; vs. Midwest; vs. Snake River; at NSI; vs. Hulett; at Saratoga.
Hulett: at Ten Sleep; vs. Guernsey; vs. Dubois; at Kaycee; vs. Midwest; at Saratoga; at Hanna; vs. NSI.
Kaycee: at Wyoming Indian; at Hanna; vs. NSI; vs. Hulett; at Saratoga; vs. Meeteetse; at Midwest; vs. Guernsey.
Midwest: vs. Farson; at NSI; vs. Saratoga; at Hanna; at Hulett; vs. Guernsey; vs. Kaycee; at St. Stephens.
NSI: at Dubois; vs. Midwest; at Kaycee; vs. Saratoga; at Guernsey; vs. Hanna; vs. Ten Sleep; at Hulett.
Saratoga: at Snake River; vs. Wyoming Indian; at Midwest; at NSI; vs. Kaycee; vs. Hulett; at Guernsey; vs. Hanna.
West Conference
Dubois: vs. NSI; vs. Farson; at Hulett; vs. Meeteetse; at Ten Sleep; vs. St. Stephens; at Snake River; at Wyoming Indian.
Farson: at Midwest; at Dubois; vs. Snake River; vs. Guernsey; at St. Stephens; vs. Ten Sleep; vs. Wyoming Indian; at Meeteetse.
Snake River: vs. Saratoga; vs. Meeteetse; at Farson; vs. St. Stephens; at Hanna; at Wyoming Indian; vs. Dubois; at Ten Sleep.
Meeteetse: vs. Hanna; at Snake River; vs. Ten Sleep; at Dubois; vs. Wyoming Indian; at Kaycee; at St. Stephens; vs. Farson.
St. Stephens: at Guernsey; at Ten Sleep; vs. Wyoming Indian; at Snake River; vs. Farson; at Dubois; vs. Meeteetse; vs. Midwest.
Ten Sleep: vs. Hulett; vs. St. Stephens; at Meeteetse; at Wyoming Indian; vs. Dubois; at Farson; at NSI; vs. Snake River.
Wyoming Indian: vs. Kaycee; at Saratoga; at St. Stephens; vs. Ten Sleep; at Meeteetse; vs. Snake River; at Farson; vs. Dubois.

–patrick