BYU Cougars: What to Say Now? Post Second Week 2015

Okay, okay ... college football may not matter that much, some people may not like it. I get that.

But I really dig it.  It has something I cannot ignore. Pitch and pathos. Ebb and sway. Millions do like like it and pay attention to it.  Some who are not alive now (2015) may read these words some day and care. For posterity, I write.

It could mean something after all, or at least for writing a few thoughts as I am wont to do.

So this weekend I could talk about a few things that have already happened in two weeks of college football related to Brigham Young University football.  In a word ...

WOW!

If I could put that word in bigger font letters, louder noise on a silent page and brighter and wowier colors and effects, I would.

This season is going a bit like a Disney film.  And all of it so far, two games in, mind you.

Now, not all Disney films are saccharine to the point of the exclusion of some real gut-wrenching tragedy or conflict. And BYU has had their fair share of some heartfelt loss. The would-be all-time leading rusher drops out of school before the season starts. He may come back healthy next year. 

Turn that page. 

Okay, let's pass the ball more with our Heisman candidate Senior who can run and pass ... NO!  He breaks his Lisfranc bone in the third quarter (well, maybe the second, but he's a tough dude) in the opener in Nebraska. Turn ... that ... page .  Kinda tearful, if you watch a post-game video.  He is probably done in the college game. He's ended three out of four seasons this way. So much promise, and so little reward ...

But these losses of pathos, certainly not pathetic, are not the story or the WOWs of which I am alluding to.

No, the wow factor is how the team and the particular replacement of said Heisman candidate has responded as the new leader of the squad.

WOW, WOW and WOW.

Spectacular.  I don't know if anyone has ever seen anything like it.

Two games.  Two very worthy opponents, and two game set-ups that allowed two really well thrown long passes that wind up winning two very dramatic games.

And this kid, a grey-shirt freshman twenty-two year-old who finished his church mission in Chile about 3 months ago in June, heaves these passes that are caught by BYU receivers, while bodies are flinging around like electrons around a fission war head!

Cougars win!

Cougars win!

And I actually want to talk about BYU going back to Pasadena this coming Saturday.

More of that later ... Really, that is what I started this post wanting to discuss.

UCLA of the past and near future. BYU has a date with ya.

Blog it, EMC.