Border War: CSU Hosts Wyoming Today

The Colorado State Rams (1-5, 3-8) host Mountain West Conference rival Wyoming Cowboys (4-2, 7-4) today at Noon in Fort Collins. The game known as the 'Border War' is the last of the season for CSU, and the first under new Athletic Director Jack Graham, after Paul Kowalczyk was fired earlier in the week. Today will be the 102nd time the two teams have met. Kickoff forecast: Cloudy, 24-degrees.

Game day notes...

• CSU closes its season with the Border War vs. Wyoming, CSU's latest regular-season game ever played in Fort Collins, two days more than the Dec. 1, 1928, regular-season finale against Colorado College at old Colorado Field, on the east side of campus. It's CSU's latest regular-season game since a Dec. 4, 1987, trip to Melbourne, Australia, where the Rams met BYU. CSU also closed the 2006 regular season at San Diego State (Dec. 2), the 1964 regular season at Hawaii (Dec. 4), the 1956 regular season at New Mexico (Dec. 1), the 1940 regular season at Fresno State (Dec. 5), the 1931 regular season against Nebraska in Denver (Dec. 5) and the 1925 regular season at Hawaii (Dec. 12).
• Prior to 2011, the latest CSU-Wyoming battle was Nov. 30, 1911, in Fort Collins.
• Saturday is Senior Day, the final college football game for 15 CSU players, including four current starters (Nuku Latu, Ivory Herd, Jake Gdowski and Paul Madsen) and team captain Mychal Sisson.
• CSU and Wyoming share the longest continuous rivalry west of the Mississippi, with an unofficial 103rd Border War meeting on tap this week. The teams' first meeting in 1899 was a CSU forfeit win, making this week officially the 102nd meeting. CSU does not recognize forfeits in all-time won-loss records.
• Head Coach Steve Fairchild is 8-5 with the Rams against Wyoming, 1-1 as a starting QB and 7-4 on the staff.

[csurams.com]