LARAMIE, Wyo. — Reality check? CSU was already checked out.

Wyoming came to play Saturday night. The Rams came to pout. Or maybe plan, to a man, for life after Fort Collins.

If the 117th edition of the Border War was a boxing match, they’d have called it after three rounds. If it were a Broadway show, they’d have closed it at intermission.

If it was a harbinger, it’s going to be an awfully long, awfully cold final four weeks in Fort Fun.

Wyoming 28, CSU 0. And that scoreline probably flatters the Rams, who looked flat from the jump.

It was the Cowboys’ largest margin of victory in a battle for the Bronze Boot since 2010 — a 44-0 Pokes victory. That was also the last time CSU got blanked in the series. It was three hours of negative superlatives, each stacking on top of the other like

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