The best news BYU football can hear right about now is this: It won’t lose this week.
Having suffered three consecutive losses, with a bye coming next, the Cougars aren’t all that comforted by the break, facing as they are a season on the brink. Truth is, the season has already slipped over the edge and plummeted to depths as deep as the program has plumbed since the Crowton years. When BYU ranks in most statistical categories as one of the worst offenses in the country, unable to move the ball on the ground or through the air, incapable of picking up first downs, averaging a mere 10 per game, there’s this question to ask:
The sympathetic want to point out that BYU has played tough competition, and that’s mostly true.