Betting on the Wyoming Cowboys

Yes, you can bet on the Cowboys in Wyoming

Wyoming law and Commission rules explicitly permit wagers on in-state NCAA teams, including individual player props on college athletes. This is a more permissive stance than states like New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, Maryland, Louisiana, and Illinois, each of which restricts in-state team or college player prop betting in some form. A Wyoming bettor can wager on every UW football and basketball game plus individual Cowboys player performance.

Football markets, Mountain West and beyond

Wyoming Cowboys football plays in the Mountain West Conference (FBS). Every game, conference and non-conference, is available across all five licensed Wyoming operators:

• Moneyline, spread, totals on every game, including early-season non-conference matchups.
• Team totals, UW-specific points over/under.
• Alternate lines, buy or sell points on the spread and total.
• Player props, QB passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, TDs, receptions, completions.
• Live betting, continuous updates during the game.
• Futures, season win total, Mountain West Conference championship, bowl appearance, conference MVP.

Basketball markets

Wyoming Cowboys basketball (Mountain West, Division I) draws meaningful handle from December through March, peaking during conference tournament week and potential NCAA Tournament appearances. Markets include:

• Moneyline, spread, totals on every regular-season and tournament game.
• Team totals and halftime markets.
• Player props, points, rebounds, assists, 3-pointers made, double-doubles.
• Futures, Mountain West tournament champion, NCAA Tournament make/miss, regular-season win total.

Venue context, playing in Laramie

UW football plays at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, sitting at 7,220 feet of elevation, making it the highest-altitude stadium in the FBS. Visiting teams traveling from sea level frequently struggle with conditioning in the second half. Cowboys home games trend toward low-scoring totals because of cold weather (late-season matchups can hit single-digit kickoff temperatures) and the elevation effect on visiting kickers and offenses.

UW basketball plays at the Arena-Auditorium ("The Dome of Doom"), also in Laramie. Home crowds are dense, loud, and historically tough on visiting teams; UW has built reliable home-court advantage there over the past decade.

How Wyoming handle patterns show up in Cowboys lines

UW is a smaller program by national standards, which means handle from inside Wyoming represents a larger share of each game's total action than it would for, say, Ohio State or Alabama. Books price Cowboys games accordingly, lines are sharper when national books align (suggesting pure efficiency) and softer when Wyoming-facing operators carry a home-state premium. Line-shopping between DraftKings/FanDuel and the more national Caesars/BetMGM is especially productive on UW games.

Best book for Cowboys betting

• DraftKings, most markets per game, alt lines on every spread/total, deepest player prop catalog
• FanDuel, best same-game parlay pricing on UW matchups
• BetMGM, Lion's Boost promos periodically feature Cowboys markets
• Caesars, reliable pricing, often late-week odds boosts on MWC games
• Fanatics, standard markets, thinner player prop catalog

Common Cowboys bet patterns

• UW home-game team-total unders in late-October and November cold-weather games.
• Visiting team unders against UW at War Memorial, altitude hurts non-acclimated offenses.
• Cowboys spread covers as home favorites against weaker MWC opponents, historical edge from the venue effect.
• Conference championship futures early in the season when Cowboys are priced as long shots but have a top-three MWC roster.

What you cannot bet on

Commission rules still prohibit:

• Wagers on the performance of individual high school athletes or high school games.
• Wagers on any amateur or youth athletic event that isn't NCAA or equivalent Division I / professional level.
• Intramural or club sport wagers at UW.