of the Big 12.

A team still in a transition phase with finances and recruiting shouldn't be able to go 11-2 and tie for first place in the conference.

Based on what we could see on paper, our season should've looked more like Cincinnati's or UCF's. Almost everyone expected that it would.

Instead, BYU showed that it isn't a typical promoted G5 program on the usual multi-year ramp up. It's a program that was already poised and prepared to compete at a high P4 level, and had been for a long time. It was just waiting for its chance.