BYU’s offense may be the worst I ever remember from a BYU team. They are totally inept and simply cannot run the ball. Utah has a great run defense. BYU will be forced to open it up. But, their tight end is the only receiver who seems to have D1 talent. If I was Scalley, I would make sure that we mix up the coverage on the tight end to confuse Mangum even more. Without the tight end, he has nothing.
I don’t think BYU’s defense is that bad. I know they allowed 479 yards and that isn’t good. However, they never got a chance to rest and LSU had many more plays than they should have had. Had BYU’s offense done anything to keep the defense off the filed – LSU probably would have had 350-400 yards. Guice may be the best returning running back in the nation. He had a good game, but not great game last night. He averaged 3 yards less per carry than he did last season and his long run was only 13 yards. I think that BYU did a pretty good job against Guice and company. They bent again and again, but rarely broke.
I don’t think that Utah will be able to run all over BYU’s defense. In fact I would be surprised if we have a 100 yard rusher. So, what do we do. We go to Carrington early and often. We don’t need to throw long and probably shouldn’t BYU’s DBs give a big cushion because they do not want to be beat by speed and the long ball. I would go to Carrington and company with 5-10 yards passes and let them take it from there. We mix in a good run game with Moss, Huntley, et al and we should be able to control the ball much like LSU did.
Unless we have a ton of turnovers, I don’t expect to score 40 points on the Cougars. I suspect we will shut down their inept offense and we will control the ball when we have it. I think we dominate in time of possession and win the game by 2-3 touchdowns. Also, keep in mind that the Cougs have nothing to lose. Sometimes that helps and sometimes it backfires. We shall see.
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