Wyoming head coach Jay Sawvel has demoted offensive coordinator Jay Johnson and promoted wide receivers coach Jovon Bouknight to run the offense, he announced Monday.
“Jovon Bouknight will be in the role of the offensive coordinator here through the rest of the season,” Sawvel said, via Wyoming News. “He’ll call the plays and do that. These are difficult, difficult decisions, because Jay Johnson is a great person. He’s a very, very good football coach. He has recruited quarterbacks very, very well here.
“There’s a reason Mason Drube is here when he had other opportunities. It wasn’t just solely because he was from the state of Wyoming. There’s a reason that the current quarterback commit is coming here. He was a piece to all of that. There’s a human element to this. None of this was enjoyable at all. This was not something I was looking forward to.”
The move came days after Wyoming fell 24-21 to Air Force, dropping the Cowboys to 3-4 on the season.
Johnson was in his second season as the offensive coordinator at Wyoming, having previously called the offense at Michigan State, Minnesota, and Louisiana, among other stops. He will remain on staff as an analyst.
Bouknight is a former Cowboy who came aboard as an analyst in 2024 and was promoted to wide receivers coach in January. Previous stops include Marshall, Kentucky, Oregon, Texas Tech, and Utah State. He spent one season as a co-coordinator at Utah State, and two as passing game coordinator.
This season, Wyoming ranks 84th nationally in yards per play and is tied for 116th in scoring at an even 20 points per game. The Cowboys are 109th in passing efficiency, with nine scoring strikes through seven games.