PROVO — With just less than three minutes remaining in Saturday's game against Northern Illinois, BYU coach Kalani Sitake had a big decision to make.
The Cougars trailed the Huskies 7-6 and had the ball at their own 35-yard line facing fourth-and-four.
Sitake opted to punt the ball and give his defense, which held the Huskies to just 204 yards of total offense, a chance to get the ball back to his offense.
“On that one, I felt like, being down one point and needing a field goal to win it, I thought it would be good to pin (NIU) deep,” Sitake explained.