PROVO — In the season-opener at Arizona, BYU dominated the third quarter and scored 21 unanswered points to take control of the game and beat the Wildcats.
In the home-opener last Saturday, a similar thing happened, but this time it was the Cougars who collapsed for much of the second half in a 21-18 setback to California.
“It felt like they took our game plan and beat us with it,” coach Kalani Sitake said of the Golden Bears.
Now BYU will limp into Madison, Wisconsin, next Saturday (1:30 p.m. MDT, ABC) to take on No. 6 Wisconsin, which dropped one spot in the Associated Press poll despite clobbering New Mexico 45-14 at Camp Randall Stadium last Saturday.