FOOTBALL NOTES: WYOMING GAME

GAME #4

TULSA (1-2, 0-0 AAC) vs. WYOMING (3-0, 0-0 MWC)
Saturday, September 21, 2019 • 2:32 pm (CT)
Skelly Field @ H.A. Chapman Stadium (30,000) • Tulsa, Okla.
TV: CBS Sports Network
Radio: Big Country 99.5 FM

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TULSA                    1-2, 0-0 The American
Head Coach:          Philip Montgomery
(Tarleton State '95)
5th year at Tulsa
Career Record: 22-31 (5 years)
TU Record:            same

WYOMING              3-0, 0-0 Mountain West
Head Coach: Craig Bohl
(Nebraska '82)
6^th year at Wyoming
Career Record:     135-67 (17 years)
WYO Record:        31-35 (6 years)

THE STORYLINES . . .
•   Tulsa is in its 120th season of football this year, as college football celebrates its 150th year.
•   Tulsa has the smallest FBS enrollment with 3,297 undergraduate students, while Wyoming has an enrollment of 12,397.
•   Wyoming allows the opposition only 85.7 yards rushing per game to rank 22nd nationally, while Tulsa's offense averages 113.7 yards on the ground to rank 108th.
•   The Wyoming offense averages 245.3 rushing yards per game, while Tulsa's defense allows 186.7 yards rushing per game.
•   Tulsa has passed for an average of 224.5 yards per game, while Wyoming has allowed 342.3 passing yards to rank 128th nationally.
•   Wyoming head coach Craig Bohl spent two seasons at Tulsa as linebacker coach under head coach Don Morton in 1985-86.

THE SERIES . . .
•   This is the 6th meeting between Tulsa and Wyoming.
•   Wyoming leads the series 3-2 … the Cowboys won the first 3 meetings of the series, while Tulsa has won the last 2 games.
•   Wyoming has won its 3 games by a 5.0 margin, while Tulsa has won its 2 games by a margin of 32.0 points per game.
•   When the teams met last (1998), they were both members together in the Western Athletic Conference.

FIRST & TEN . . .
•   Tulsa has seven 2018 bowl participants on its 2019 schedule –– Michigan State, Oklahoma State, Cincinnati, Memphis, Tulane, UCF and Houston.
•   In each of the last 2 games, Tulsa had a 100-yard rusher (Shamari Brooks) and a 100-yard receiver (Sam Crawford, Jr. vs. San Jose State and Keylon Stokes vs. Oklahoma State)… before that, the last time Tulsa had both a 100-yard rusher and 100-yard receiver in a single game came on Oct. 27, 2017 vs. SMU.
•   Tulsa has held each of its first 3 opponents to under 250 yards passing.
•   Tulsa's win at San Jose State snapped a 13-game road losing streak for the Hurricane. Tulsa's last true road win was at UCF, 35-20, on Nov. 19, 2016.
•   Tulsa's defense had three 4th down stops within its own 30-yard line in the first 6 quarters this year – twice at Michigan State and once at San Jose State.

BROOKS GOES FOR TWO STRAIGHT 100+ GAMES . . .
• Shamari Brooks has had back-to-back 100+ rushing games, giving him 10 career 100+ rushing games.
• He had 140 yards on 29 carries at San Jose State in the second game of the year, and then last week had 107 yards and 2 TDs on 29 carries vs. Oklahoma State.
• After a zero-rushing output on 6 carries against Michigan State, the #1-ranked returning run defense in 2018, Brooks has averaged 123.5 yards over the last 2 games.
• Brooks now has 20 career rushing TDs to rank 11th on the school's career chart.

TREVIS . . .
•   Senior defensive end Trevis Gipson has been effective in creating lost yardage plays by opposing offenses.
•   Of his 12 tackles this year, Gipson has 4.5 TFLs for -23 yards, including 2 sacks for -16 yards.
•   Gipson was a menace for the Michigan State offense in the season opener, putting pressure on the Spartans quarterback throughout the night.
•   Among Gipson's 4 tackles in that game, he totaled 2 TFLs for -10 yards, one sack for -10 yards and was credited with 2 QB hurries.
•   A week later, he had 4 tackles, 2.5 TFLs for -13 yards and one sack for -9 yards at San Jose State.
•   Gipson has 6 career forced fumbles to rank 11th for NCAA active career leaders.

BACK-TO-BACK 100-YARD RECEIVERS . . .
•   For the first time since 2016, Tulsa has had consecutive games with a 100-yard plus receiver.
•   Sam Crawford, Jr. had 9 catches for 137 yards and one touchdown at San Jose State and a week later Keylon Stokes had 7 receptions for 109 yards and one TD vs. Oklahoma State.

STOKES CLOSING IN ON 1,000 YARDS . . .
• Junior Keylon Stokes had his second career 100-yard receiving game in the last 4 games, dating back to the 2018 season finale, when he had 109 yards on 7 receptions against Oklahoma State last week.
• He now has 209 yards on 15 receptions in 3 games this year.
• Stokes has 927 career receiving yards in 24 games and needs 73 more yards to reach the 1,000-yard plateau.

FOOTBALL NOTES: WYOMING GAME

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