BYU Football in November 2024: Anticipating Some Great Times

    As alluded to in a recent post, both my college football teams are 8-0 and cruising this fall. I spoke of who Indiana has to play, and notably Brigham Young's opponents in November are not as daunting. Utah is struggling greatly, and no one else is highly rated like Ohio State for the Hoosiers. Let alone Michigan, who are down for them. 

    Who do the Cougars play? First of all, BYU has a bye this first Saturday of the 11th month. Get some rest after pasting the Knights down in Orlando. The week before the Cougs needed some lady luck to come back with a clutch TD in the last minute, with few seconds left, at home in Provo.

    That was the last two games of October. Now perfect (no jinx!) entering the eleventh month.

    [As I write this, I realize I have some other obligations to do for some folks...Sports can take me away, sometimes too much...]

Utah at 8:15 Mountain Time. In Salt Lake. November 9.

    BYU last beat these neighbor rivals in 2021, breaking a terribly long and awful streak of losses since the Utes joined the former PAC-10, which is now rebuilding after being savaged by the Big-10 and the ACC. The other Cougars of Washington State are doing all right this season. Could BYU play them in the College Football Championships? Hard to guess that this would happen. Both would have to run the table till the final 12 are announced.

Cougs host a weaker Kansas team in Provo. November 16, time undetermined.

    BYU owes payback on them from last year. They targeted Parker Kingston, knocking him out for the season, and the refs did not even call a foul. Kill the Rocker Hawkers. Kansas was better last year, so BYU needs to assert its dominance on all sides of the ball.

    Could there be snow? Why not? 

    BYU travels down to the Grand Canyon State, to face the potentially good Red Devils. Red? Are they that? Time unknown. November 23. (No, Sun Devils! As I watch the women play them in Provo in volleyball. A day or two later.)

    ASU has some pluck; the Cougars have long, back in the day history with them. We should show a lot of blue in that stadium, though, and the weather should be nice, I would imagine. Better than northern Utah. I think the Devils are better than last year, but so is Brigham Young.

    BYU hosts Houston to end the regular season. Last day of the month.

    And lastly, prepping for the possible Big 12 Championship (likely Iowa State?) with a down Houston Cougars, even though these dudes just punked Utah last Saturday. Pre-season favorites no more! Ha! I have disliked the Utes a bit more since a year ago, October or so. (It was a pre-game show with Pat McAfee, or some such guy). Not scheduled hour as of yet, November 30. Need to rest some of the guys for the next, bigger game.

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    We hope, we plan, we do not get too far ahead. Anyone can win or lose on any given day.

    Back in 2020--Covid lock down times-- BYU had an unblemished record when it came up short at a last-minute match with Coastal Carolina. So, we will not count all our chickens before they roost.

    But a-roosting we plan to do! This team may have the moxy after escaping the OSU nail biter two Fridays ago.

    12-0? Perfect November '24. 13-0? (Big 12 Champs). 14-0? First round winners. 15-0? What in the world? 16-0? That would be... indescribable. 40 years since the last time... All we want to be is like Notre Dame. With a taste of the service academies. Rules and honor and all that.

    Oregon? Texas? Ohio State? Georgia? Alabama? In mid-January, when one BYU player is about to enter the Missionary Training Center... Ryner Swanson? I think maybe him. Could the Lord favor us like the Crimson Tide and Bulldogs of yesteryear.

    Who is next?

    Us Cougar diehards are loving it.

    Rise and shout!