COLORADO SPRINGS — The Wyoming Cowboys outgained Air Force but were undone by fourth-quarter mistakes in a 24-21 loss Saturday afternoon at Falcon Stadium on the campus of the U.S. Air Force Academy.
“It came down to mistakes in the fourth quarter,” Wyoming head coach Jay Sawvel said. “A turnover that kept us from getting seven or at least three (points), a bad interception that gave them three and then defensively we didn’t play as well in the second half as what we had in the first half. We had a couple critical situations where we could have got off the field and didn’t get that done. All of us share in that.”
Sawvel said the Cowboys expected a slower-paced contest. “We had four possessions in the first half,” he said. “That’s the type of game it was going to be because we were going