My disdain for byu is well documented. If an alien ship came down and scooped all of Utah County off the face of the planet I’d be good with that.
As miserable as I felt for the last 3 quarters in the Vegas Bowl about our complete ineptness on offense, I think it was a fantastic way to humiliate byu and their fans. The game was pretty much won at 35-0. But since the Ute offense is/was so bad, it gave the zoobs 3 quarters of “hope” for their miracle comeback. In the end, they couldn’t do it. They thought they could but got beaten a 2nd time in the game, in a different way.
How bad must it have felt for them to actually believe they could win, then have those hopes crushed? So the zoobies were crushed twice… once in the first quarter at 35-0 and once again when they couldn’t pull off the comeback.
If byu couldn’t beat the Utes this time, when could they? This was their chance. Many of Utah’s “best” players were injured. The offense can’t move. Can’t score, and is as predictable as the sun rising in the east.
I was not impressed with Tanner Mangum (that is his name right?). He threw a few good balls. He stood in the pocket fairly well (much better than Wilson ever has). But a LOT of his throws were heaves of desperation. Some were so far off that our DB’s couldn’t adjust. Maybe that’s their strategy.
Oh, and byu had no running game… at all. Not a threat there.
After the game was over I was quite disappointed because of the offense. Somehow though we made it to 10-3 in the Pac-12, which is fantastic. Smoke and mirrors perhaps, but it sure as hell isn’t luck. Add to that a bowl win over hopefully our soon to be former rival.
Utah @ 
Baylor .
