PROVO — When asked last June about the difficulty of independent schedules — particularly that they're frontloaded with Power 5 opponents — BYU coach Kalani Sitake didn’t flinch.
“If we’re going to work toward a Power 5 (conference) then we need to have a schedule that matches it,” he said, having come off a 4-9 season. “Everything (athletic director) Tom (Holmoe) and the administration has done is to get us ready to be a Power 5 program.”
The Cougars’ early-season victories at Arizona and Wisconsin have seemed to validate that approach.
“There are two trains of thought.