This year's goal is the College Football Playoff for the Big 12 representative from Provo, Utah. Last season, BYU believed they deserved a spot among the very best and a shot at the national championship game -- they even finished ranked 13th in the final rankings of the season -- but a tight loss to Arizona State and a soul-stealing upset against Kansas kept the Cougars off the short list.
This season, the ultimate goal is to breach the playoff bracket for the first time as a program, but as always, the odds are always higher that a team will miss the postseason tournament rather than reach it.