Compare that to their toughest opening 5 games ever

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Jun 24, 2024
1:20:30pm

Indy Coug Loquacious Lummox

Compare that to their toughest opening 5 games ever

The toughest opening 5 games of a BYU season since 1972, measured by cumulative opponent winning percentage, is 1991:

Florida State 11-2 (finished 4th in AP)
UCLA 9-3 (19th)
Penn St. 11-2 (3rd)
Air Force 10-3 (25th)
Utah St. 5-6

Total: 46-16 (0.742)
— CougarStats (@CougarStats) June 24, 2024

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The final 5 games of 2023

Indy Coug Loquacious Lummox

Jun 24, 1:12pm

It's not THAT they lost. It's HOW they lost that is frustrating to me.

Eggguy

Jun 24, 1:19pm

I'm just curious what five game losing streak wouldn't be frustrating?

Indy Coug

Jun 24, 1:22pm

3 were competitive? Only two. The Oklahoma games. Texas was kinda competitive

Jun 24, 1:24pm

The Texas game was competitive for 3 quarters. BYU had outgained Texas through most of 3 quarters

Indy Coug

Jun 24, 1:26pm

The Texas game was over after the first quarter.

Spiff

Jun 24, 1:29pm

lol. I was at the Texas game. We were never really in that game from the jump.

Ozymandias

Jun 24, 1:34pm

LOL I was at the game too. BYU didn't get run off the field — certainly not remotely close to the way

Indy Coug

Jun 24, 1:36pm

Sure other games were worse, but BYU was never competitive. It wasn’t a beat

Ozymandias

Jun 24, 1:38pm

Our first four drives of the game we didn’t run more than 3 plays a single drive

RalphWiggam

Jun 24, 1:41pm

Two of the five games were competitive. In fact, two of those games we were in

RalphWiggam

Jun 24, 1:24pm

If we lost to the chiefs by less than a touchdown each game.

bigbluecougar

Jun 24, 2:03pm

Amen brother

TNT

Jun 24, 1:28pm

Concur. But point is they could (and should) have won. So let’s give the

TrueBlue58

Jun 24, 2:10pm

I hate this argument.

BlueOptimist

Jun 24, 4:01pm

Compare that to their toughest opening 5 games ever

Indy Coug

Jun 24, 1:20pm

I recently watched the last two games, and I'm really bullish on Retzlaff.

SLIVER

Jun 24, 1:22pm

There is nothing from those last two games which have me bullish on Retzlaff

Indy Coug

Jun 24, 1:23pm

He was getting that RPO going. When he was in his groove he looked good. Robbins

SLIVER

Jun 24, 1:35pm

The last two games had me more hopeful about the OL this year than it did about the QB

Indy Coug

Jun 24, 1:36pm

That is kind of the point. The OL should be much better which will help the QB

Cougar TD

Jun 24, 1:44pm

Robbins made the OL look better because he is great running north/south. He

SLIVER

Jun 24, 1:44pm

Retzlaff got too excited and zipped passes that were uncatchable.

WJCougar

Jun 24, 2:11pm

We were competing. They were good teams. There is hope for this team.

Plantagenet

Jun 24, 1:54pm

That's also 5 of the 6 best teams in the Big 12. Iowa St., Kansas St, and WV were all tied with 6-3 conf records.

ManicBlue

Jun 24, 1:58pm

The No Show games against WV and Iowa St. were more frustrating than...

WJCougar

Jun 24, 2:10pm

RE: The No Show games against WV and Iowa St. were more frustrating than...

ManicBlue

Jun 24, 2:27pm

. . . And we did a great job helping them achieve such a high winning %

viper

Jun 24, 3:08pm

Before Kalani, those Iowa State and WVU games would've ranked as some of the

Jun 24, 3:08pm

Were they that rare under Bronco or is your memory just bad?

ManicBlue

Jun 24, 3:14pm

Bad memory

Indy Coug

Jun 24, 3:15pm

RE: Were they that rare under Bronco or is your memory just bad?

Jun 24, 3:24pm

Oh, you definitely missed more than a few of Bronco's. For instance, losing to Virginia in 2013 was brutal. We only

ManicBlue

Jun 24, 3:39pm

Also: '06 at Arizona, '07 at Tulsa, '12 at Utah, '14 again v. UNR, '15 v. Mizzou

Kalani4Prez

Jun 24, 3:42pm

You are still missing quite a few

slatecoug

Jun 24, 3:51pm

Oh ye of short memories

slatecoug

Jun 24, 3:49pm

"pretty rare under Bronco" ... Lol.

Jun 24, 3:56pm

You know what else Bronco never did? Beat Utah by more than a one score margin.

slatecoug

Jun 24, 4:05pm

That's almost a Wrubell-esque stat

CougarScrub

Jun 24, 3:20pm

Well part of the reason for the stellar records is those teams went 5-0 vs BYU

refunder

Jun 24, 3:36pm

Gotta get one of those.

Mitty

Jun 24, 4:28pm

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