Coming off a 4-9 season, most BYU fans’ expectations were understandably low coming into 2018. Some fans predicted one win in September, others hoped for two, and the most optimistic bunch of fans crossed their fingers for three wins in the opening month of the season.
According to Jeff Sagarin’s college football rankings, BYU had the fifth hardest September schedule in college football. Only Iowa State, UCLA, USC and South Carolina had tougher September schedules. BYU went 1-1 against Sagarin top 10 teams Washington (7) and Wisconsin (9), and pulled off an upset as a double-digit underdog on the road at Arizona (66).