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UW football back for fall

CASPER — Wyoming football is officially back.

So is the rest of the Mountain West.

After a week of various media reports, statements from university administrators and state officials, and rampant speculation, the Mountain West has become the third Football Bowl Subdivision conference to reverse course after postponing football and other fall sports indefinitely last month. The league announced Thursday night that UW and the conference’s other 11 football teams will play an eight-game, conference-only schedule beginning the week of Oct. 24 following a vote by the Mountain West Board of Directo...