They completely went away from what had worked in the first half and started playing hero ball. TT is an example of multiple games where byu let big leads slip away. Those games are a demonstration that those that were questioning mental toughness of this team had some merit because it happened repeatedly but none bigger than TT.

What happened against tcu, outscoring them by 29 is a major outlier event. Winning two in a row in the past six weeks is an outlier event. Both of those facts called into serious doubt the possibility of byu coming back. Giving up the lead to TT wasn’t surprising because byu had done it over and over.