Coaches such as Bowden Wyatt, Bob Devaney, Fred Akers, Pat Dye, Dennis Erickson and Joe Tiller were at Wyoming immediately prior to gaining notoriety at bigger football powerhouses.

After struggling for much of the first half of the century, Wyoming football rose to regional power status in the late 1940s.

Between 1949 and 1961, the Cowboys won the Mountain States Conference championship seven times, including four in a row under coach Bob Devaney from 1958 to 1961.

After joining the Western Athletic Conference in 1962, the program added three more championships from 1966 to 1968, led by coach Lloyd Eaton.

[citation needed] Head coach Lloyd Eaton expelled them from the team, "triggering an uproar that consumed the rest of the football season and much of everything else in the tiny college town of Laramie, Wyoming."[who?

][citation needed] In 2018, filmmaker Darius Monroe released a documentary short about the athletes: Black 14.

The short "uses only archival footage to tell the story, mostly from local ABC and NBC affiliates in Wyoming, letting the principals – from the students, to the coach, to the school president and even the state’s governor – speak for themselves.

[5] It is the highest Division I FBS football stadium in the nation; the elevation of its playing field exceeds 7,200 feet (2,195 m) above sea level.

It was named for John J. Corbett, longtime all-sport coach and director of physical education at the school.

The field was the first official stadium for the Cowboys; previously they had played on Prexy's Pasture, the main green of the school.

Bridger's Battle is the name for the games played between Wyoming and Utah State, the winner of which is awarded the trophy of the rivalry, a .50 caliber Rocky Mountain Hawken rifle.

The rivalry started in 1903, and renewed as an annual game in 2013 when Utah State joined the Mountain West Conference.

They would bite at your heels all the time.”[This quote needs a citation] In 1998, #23 Air Force defeated number #25 Wyoming to win the WAC championship 10–7.