Why do you think BYU should be a top 25 team (as a program)? Seems to me there is nothing that should make that happen. LaVell had to innovate (through hiring Doug Scovill) so heavily he changed the game. Sitake (through Hill) may be on the brink of doing something similar.
That’s how far out of the box BYU excellence is. It’s not something anyone could have expected or predicted. In fact none of the media did.