Home School Fans Episode 11 - Week 11: Part II BYU Gets to Six Wins

BYU, As it Should Do - But not in October! 

    It gets the distance and the win on Utah Tech, who had some impressive players. The first half was too close and the BYU defense was rather paltry, as it had been to too many in October, the worst of it I saw in person in Lynchburg. The second half righted the ship (I feel like I have written on this already?), and they won 52 to 26. A Cougar bench player name Fall scored a last minute score. Good for him, sitting the bench all season and showing some gusto. Score!

    Now 6-5, and they will get a bowl. Last game tomorrow late at night is Stanford; we owe them some payback. I was in Palo Alto when they lambasted us in 2004. With my brother-in-law. They beat us in Provo the year before that, in 2003, when the wheels were coming off the program.

    Jaren Hall has had an up and down season, he may go pro. The running backs have been hurt and at times stifled. Ahh, the Liberty game! We were embarrassed, sure. Liberty has gone on to lose a few... Still, a good 8-win season, at least. The Flames have not totally flamed out.

    Beating a down Stanford Cardinal will give this at times disparaging 2022 BYU football a decent finish. What a team, this squad. Now ranked 60th by CBSSports.com.

    That is okay, for what October was. Boise State at the end, the skin of our teeth, saved the season in many aspects. Stanford will continue that salvation, or partial redemption.

    Fresno State: Keeping Track

    The Bulldogs win another game, this time crushing the Wolf Pack (wait! was that last week?). As I blog they are blanking the Wyoming Cowboys 16-0 in the second quarter. This will make them 8-4, and on their way to the Mountain West championship game. Better than my Cougars, overall. Ranked 61st, not bad, not that great.

    Update: Now 23-0, Bulldogs. They seem to be better than 61st, maybe.

    James Madison: A Respectable Year

After two respectable wins, the Dukes are now 7-3, ranked 47. They handled the Georgia State Panthers (right?) pretty easily. They are ranked ahead of BYU and FSU, not to mention Texas A&M and Indiana. Second best in the seven-team round up? I guess so.

    Now: the Chanticleers of Coastal Carolina are next. That is who upset the Cougars (my Brigham Young ones, not Houston or Washington State) in the pandemic season of 2020. 

    I predict the Coastal Carolina team wins tomorrow, but never sleep on the Dukes. A really decent season for them, in Harrisonburg, no matter what happens against the Chanticleers.

    That's all.

    Blog it.