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2025-26 College football season

Then you have this: https://sports.yahoo.com/article/ap-poll-history-shows-byu-210446421.html

A new study of the Associated Press college football poll by On3 reporter Brett McMurphy is providing some interesting results. On3 is listing some of the most underrated and overrated college football teams in the last decade after studying AP polls. USC football is listed as the most overrated squad.

The team listed as the most underrated football program since 2014 is Big 12 conference member BYU, per the study.



BYU is constantly beating the spread every week. It is what it is at this point but they are always disrespected.
 
I do think BYU has a good chance against Tech today. In the prior game BYU had 2 muffed punts (tech didn't force these, they were self inflicted), 2 shanked punts (again, self inflicted), missed field goals they normally make, and lost the turnover battle 3-0. BYU gave tech short fields many many times and held them to 2 td's and 5 field goals.

BYU is probably the healthiest they have been all season and now get a semi neutral field (im hearing tech will have about 50,000 fans and BYU will have about 30,000) this time. Im hoping that the Sitake stuff all week is a benefit rather than a negative. Hoping that the distractions caused are outweighed by the momentum of keeping sitake.

I think its gonna be a very close game. Vegas has BYU as 13 point underdogs of course. They get disrespected pretty much every week.
 
Would be nice if Notre Dame had to play the #4 ranked game today and pick up their 3rd loss while BYU could sit back and chill with only 1 loss and cruise into the playoffs with an undeserved bye.
 
Texas Tech wins this season point spreads: 60 points, 48 points, 31 points, 24 points, 24 points, 25 points, 42 points, 23 points, 22 points, 39 points, 49 points.
I wonder if that is the highest point spread average in the country in their wins. They won their games by an average of over 35 points per game.

Ohio state won their games by an average of 29.5 per game.
 
One thing that I hope Kalani Sitake has learned from this season is that style points matter. Running up the score is important and necessary. Just winning the games isn't enough. He is notoriously kind and huge on sportsmanship and is anti running up the score more than about anyone.

Maybe if BYU would have tried to put a few more points on the board at the end in games that they had firm control of then they would be in the CFP regardless of what happens today.

Like how 11-1 Ole Miss is ranked #6 after winning by an average of 20 points per game. Maybe if 11-1 BYU would have won by an average of 20 points per game, instead of 19.8 points per game lol, then they would be ranked #6 instead of #11.

Ole Miss strength of schedule is ranked #40 in the country and BYU strength of schedule is ranked #34 in the country fwiw.
 
Pretty funny on Techs first TD. They always show the route run by the receiver on the replays for a play like this. This time they only showed the catch over and over to avoid showing the obvious offensive PI that got the receiver open. Also, the receiver ran out of bounds, the ref threw his hat on the sideline to indicate the illegal touching, yet no penalty.
Great job by the replay crew and the announcers to avoid showing or discussing those two things.
The refs understand the assignment. Need Notre Dame and all the eyeballs and money that come with them to make the playoffs.
 
BYU QB got hurt early and cant run anymore. Not looking good.
Offensive MVP of the Big 12 LJ martin was hurt in the first matchup.
 
Haven't had a bad snap in 2 months...... So of course BYU has one now lol.
 
Good hell. BYU forces a fumble and it bounces right to a Tech player running in stride for a big gain. Lol. FML
 
Game over. Tech too good.
 
BYU did not stand a chance once Bear effectively went down. New rule: if your starting quarterback is running a lot by play design, you have to have a back up pocket quarterback, ready to play. Have to. It doesn’t matter whether that preparation comes from playing in blowouts or occasionally mixing them in as a switch hitter or what. You have to have a back up ready when you are exposing your starter to that much injury risk.

But also, the missed tackles were unbelievable today. You’re not gonna win a game of such stakes/competition if you miss tackles like that.
 
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BYU did not stand a chance once Bear effectively went down. New rule: if your starting quarterback is running a lot by play design, you have to have a back up pocket quarterback, ready to play. Have to. It doesn’t matter whether that preparation comes from playing in blowouts or occasionally mixing them in as a switch hitter or what. You have to have a back up ready when you are exposing your starter to that much injury risk.

But also, the missed tackles were unbelievable today you’re not gonna win a game of such steaks and competition if you miss tackles like that.
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ya I was making some excuses early on but Tech is just way better. They ran BYU over and backed up over them again.
BYU got smoked twice by them and the funny thing is that when BYU got smoked earlier, it was Techs worst home win of their season (as far as margin of victory) and then today BYU still lost by less than the average team lost to tech this season (35.1 point margin per win for tech this seaon)

They just might win the championship.

A few things that suck: BYU finally gets into a P4/P5 conference only to find out that it would be easier to make the playoffs as a G5/independent team lol.
BYU just had their best recruiting class of all time....... and if they were in the SEC it would be a meh recruiting class. They would have had the 8th best recruiting class in the SEC this year.
 
At least Alabama is getting their asses kicked as well by a worse ranked team and are gonna have 3 losses.

By the way, I think its dumb that "neutral site" championship games are played in non neutral sites. The big12 championship game was a home game for Tech and the SEC championship game is a home game for georgia.

Why not play the Big12 championship game in vegas? No big 12 schools are based in nevada. Or some other state that has no conference members. Same with the SEC championship game.
 
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