BYU Football Retrospective on Bowl Games
There is a big one tonight against UCF (Central Florida), a decent 6-3 (pandemic) team that has lost its 3 games to good opponents by a combined 12 points. Brigham Young was hoping to stay undefeated (historic loss at Coastal Carolina on two day's notice cost them!) but this win tonight would keep them pretty highly rated, would bolster talk of their national worthiness all season despite a weakened re-aligned schedule, and would be their first win ever in the state of Florida. They are 0-8 or 0-9 in the Sunshine State going back to the 1980s.
Also, despite LaVell Edwards bringing national acclaim and glory to the Church school's program, he did not have a very good record in bowl games(7-14 over an almost 30 year career). His three consecutive successors have had mixed results: Crowton doing awful because he could not even get them to the game most of his tenure (0-1 in four years?), Mendenhall raised the bar on consistency and success rate (7-5) in the post-regular season games, and now Sitake is sitting on the fence (2-1 in four years till now).
This is a big deal. The pride and the reputation of the talent of this club, all those national and regional pundits and fans proclaiming that the Y squad passes the "eye test".
Must. Get. It. Done.
Cougars versus Knights.
Make it happen!
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