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2009 Wyoming Cowboys football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ4615318 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2009 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming as a member Mountain West Conference (MW) during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Led by first-year head coach Dave Christensen, the Cowboys compiled an overall record of 7–6 record with mark 4–4 in conference play, placing fifth in the MW. Wyoming was invited to the New Mexico Bowl, where the Cowboys defeated Fresno State two overtimes. The team played home games at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, Wyoming.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2009 Wyoming Cowboys football team” is american college football team season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Wyoming, Cowboys and football, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Wyoming, Cowboys and football is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4615318. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “2009 Wyoming Cowboys football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.