Provo • The numbers are not all that impressive through seven football games for the BYU Cougars, who had a bye this weekend after playing the 43rd most difficult schedule in the country the first half of the season.
But the only number coach Kalani Sitake cares about in this hoped-for season of rebounding from last year’s miserable campaign is four. That’s the number of victories the Cougars have, already matching last year’s total.
After the Cougars improved to 4-3 on Oct. 13 with a 49-23 win over Hawaii, graduate transfer receiver Dylan Collie said the program is making strides after having entered the contest with consecutive blowout losses to Washington and Utah State that brought into question whether the team was really better than last year.