2022 Class 1A 6-Man Football State Championship Preview [VIDEO]

These two schools did not play in the regular season. They used to be conference opponents until 6-man switched to North and South Conferences before the 2022 season.

This first postseason game between the two programs.

WyoPreps visited with both head coaches before the game, Snake River’s Jack Cobb, and Burlington’s Trent Aagard.

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Team Info & Series History:

Burlington (9-1) – Trent Aagard: 7th year as head coach; 2 state championships in school history; those came in 1992 and 1994. Those were both 9-man titles. The Huskies have made only one previous trip to Laramie, and that was in 2018. They lost that game to Farson-Eden (73-38).

Little Snake River (10-0) – Jack Cobb: 6th year as head coach; 4 state championships in school history; the last was in 2021 (65-24 over Encampment). The Rattlers are making their sixth appearance in Laramie. They are 4-1 in previous title games in the Gem City.

Little Snake River leads the all-time series, 5-1. They first played each other in a varsity game in 2016. The Rattlers won the first meeting in overtime. Burlington won the second game in the series, and Little Snake River has won the last four. They’ve never played each other in the playoffs.

Team Stats per game:

                             Little Snake River                                           Burlington                   

Rush Offense = No. 2 (328.3)                                                    No. 7 (177.5)

Pass Offense = No. 7 (74.4)                                                       No. 1 (197.3)

Total Offense = No. 2 (402.7)                                                    No. 3 (374.8)

Scoring Offense = No. 3 (57.4)                                                  No. 1 (65.1)

Rush Defense = No. 1 (63)                                                         No. 5 (213.1)

Pass Defense = No. 5 (93.5)                                                      No. 10 (152.7)

Total Defense = No. 1 (156.5)                                                   No. 8 (365.9)

Scoring Defense = No. 1 (15.5)                                                 No. 2 (24.3)

Key Players:

Little Snake River = Hadley Myers – 136 rushing yards per game, 25 TDs, has 30 total TDs to rank No. 2 in scoring; Kannadis Peroulis – 111.8 rushing yards per game, 19 TDs; Zane Matheson 62.1 pass yards per game, 15 TDs, 0 INTs; Seth Maxson 18.7 defensive points per game – ranks No. 11.

Burlington = Seth Wardell – 135.4 passing yards per game, 31 TDs, 1 INT; Cohen Schlenker – 19 rec., 409 yards, 10 TDs; Noah McMackin – 15 rec. 352 yards, 2 TDs; Joe Bassett 15 defensive points per game – ranks No. 19.

Kick-off will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday in Laramie.

Series history information is Courtesy of Wyoming-football.com.