What Wyoming coach Craig Bohl had to say about this week's matchup with the Longhorns
I listened to the gameweek press conference of Wyoming coach Craig Bohl this morning. There are three main takeaways for Texas fans:
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1. Bohl is very high on his quarterback. Bohl claimed Andrew Peasley, who threw the game winner in overtime on a fourth-and-seven a week earlier against Texas Tech, is coming off the “best performance of his career” on Saturday against Portland State.
Peasley is a fairly mobile quarterback, a strong runner, who is still becoming a better passer.
Last week against Portland State, he was highly efficient, finishing 11-16 for 201 yards and three touchdowns. But the biggest factor for Peasley? He seems to have a little bit of that “it” factor for the Cowboys. This team goes as he goes.
2. Bohl called his squad “mature”. That’s an understatement. On offense alone, the Cowboys start five college graduates.
And as for the defense? Every single starter for Bohl is a redshirt of some sort, the lowest being two redshirt sophomores. They also start six redshirt juniors, two redshirt seniors and one graduate.
The defense is stout and experienced, and the proof is in their performance thus far. Wyoming held Texas Tech to 10 fewer points in regulation than Oregon did.
The experience and ages on this Wyoming team overall feels more like a BYU team.
3. That Wyoming defense will be called upon to make Quinn Ewers uncomfortable. “You have to get him off of his spots,” Bohl said of Ewers. Bohl mentioned that idea more than once.
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Based on what I heard from Bohl, the Cowboy gameplan will be relatively simple. Good coaches tend to do that for their players – boil it all down to easy language that players can understand.
The Cowboys want to control the ball as much as possible with the run game and use a passing attack that is heavily focused on moving the chains.
When on defense, the Cowboys want to stop the run first and foremost – which he probably thinks they can do because of their experience up front – and get Ewers and Steve Sarkisian guessing on second- and third-and-long.
And when/if the game is on the line, put the ball in Peasley’s hands to try to win it for you.
The coach has the recipe.
But even the best plans can fall short in execution. Yet this game is no pushover. Texas has the skill talent on the perimeter to potentially overwhelm the Cowboys, but Wyoming is stout otherwise.
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Following the Alabama win, recruiting will be interesting the remainder of this campaign.
As Gerry Hamilton put it bluntly yesterday, “the Horns are on the receiving end of some interesting phone calls.”
