With the benefit of hindsight the team’s strengths and weaknesses emerge. The schedule (early on) was thought to be difficult, but it turned out to be mediocre.

This helps explain frustrating losses against a too-late-to-the-party Kansas team and ASU. A dominant team who ripped through a tough schedule should not have lost those games. OTOH, a better-than-average team should win most of their games, get lucky on a couple, get unlucky on a couple others.

It’s clear that BYU’s players do MUCH better when they play their assignments well. So much better in fact, you could say that Coaching prep, play designs and calls, scheme/concept designs are a bigger part of BYU’s success than most teams.

Which makes it easy for some pundits to call the team overrated. But personally, I prefer knowing that, regardless of personnel, the coaching staff can keep the team competitive year in and year out.

On the flip side, such a team will almost never get media respect