Provo • As BYU’s 2019 football season neared, all eyes were on the first four weeks. The Cougars had four consecutive games against Power 5 teams — the only team in the nation to play such a schedule — and three of them wound up being ranked opponents.
The Cougars survived it. They came out of the first month of play 2-2, with overtime wins at Tennessee and against USC.
As challenging and difficult as those first four games proved to be, though, the next four games could prove just as challenging, in a different way.