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The Holy War 2017

Just saw a tweet that really put things in perspective.

BYU coaching records in the rivalry game going back to Lavell's last 8 years of coaching:

Lavell: 3-5
Crowton: 1-3
Bronco: 3-7
Sitake: 0-2

That's a 7-17 record over the last the last 24 years. I realize that this rivalry has more close games than any other rivalry, but this stat certainly supports the idea that BYU's program has some serious catching up to do. To add to that, I don't think it's getting easier for them anytime soon. Utah lost an awful lot of talent in 2016 and were still able to go get a win in Provo. When BYU comes to SLC next year, they're going to see an awful lot of the same players they saw last night.
 
colton said:
Nice stat. I had actually just decided that I was going to post my prediction that the game would be decided by a touchdown or less. My head says Utes but my heart obviously says Cougars... so let's go with heart and predict 20-17 for BYU.
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Congrats to the Utes. Boy, BYU's offense sucks. Should have gone with my head. :-) At least I was right about the "decided by a touchdown or less" thing.
 
colton said:
Congrats to the Utes. Boy, BYU's offense sucks. Should have gone with my head. :-) At least I was right about the "decided by a touchdown or less" thing.
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I'll never forgive Whitt for not kicking that FG. Now we get another year of the "touchdown or less" narrative.
 
Jazz Spazz said:
You'll forgive him because you won.
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Also, attempting a field goal doesn't equal making a field goal. (Byu missed a chip shot earlier in the game btw)
 
fishonjazz said:
That's my point.
Utah put up all kinds of yard, and first downs and shut down byu offense.

So based on that alone utah didn't play bad imo. They were great in many ways and not so good in other ways.
Byu on the other hand was just bad. Couldn't do anything on offense and couldn't stop the utes either.

If the utes didn't have penalties or turnovers and scored in the red zone every time they got there then that would equal a fantastic, near perfect game and complete blowout. But they did have penalties and turnovers and settled for too many field goals so they weren't fantastic or perfect. But they still had many many good things happen in the game so that means they didn't play like crap imo.
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lol
wut are you arguing in this post?
 
NAOS said:
lol
wut are you arguing in this post?
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That utah didn't play like crap in that game imo. That they put up tons of yards, and shut byu down and won the game. Special teams played very good.
 
Utes left a ton of points on the field due to undisciplined play in both games. If this continues they will lose more than they win in the pack 12


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fishonjazz said:
That utah didn't play like crap in that game imo. That they put up tons of yards, and shut byu down and won the game. Special teams played very good.
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It sounds like you're saying that Utah 'didn't play like crap' (i.e. they were good), and BYU played poorly, and yet it was still a close game. In other words, it sounds like a strange backdoor-style silver lining for BYU fans. Which is funny.

Every account of the game suggests that Utah was guilty of plenty of unforced/self-inflicted errors which, despite the wide gap in talent between teams, put the game in jeopardy. <--- that is one fool-proof definition of playing poorly. There are others. But, yeah, that's one.
 
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