You don't beat a team 38-9 and call it "luck" or that the ball just bounced your way. Saturday night was a curb stomp.

Too many articles and analyses are concluding that there was just some six-minute span where BYU got a bunch of lucky bounces. All of these rely on about a dozen what-ifs. What-if K-State had knelt out the first half? Well, they didn't. They could have still gone into the half at 10-6...or 10-9...or even up 13-10--it wasn't like they were doomed by not going conservative. BYU created their own "luck" from there. An INT by sending Robinson on the blitz and forcing Johnson into a throw he probably didn't want to make. And even after the pick, they could have held BYU scoreless--the ball wasn't on the goalline for some gimme QB sneak. But Jake threw a dime to Chase to end the half. Those weren't luck plays--those were elite football plays.

The majority of the time, "luck" is created by playing well and being prepared to take advantage of any situation that comes your way.