BYU is not a championship contender until Kalani and the coaching staff stop making odd, goofy decisions midgame, and until they stop dropping punts.

The players are balling out of their minds right now. They are playing like vicious bloodthirsty warriors out there. During Iowa St., they play their guts out on a 7 minute drive and Kalani decides to not take 3 easy points, and they come away with nothing. Twice.

The defense plays their guts out and make a tough defensive stand. Then the punt returner is somehow not in position to field a punt and is sprinting over to catch a punt that is already trending out of bounds, and gives it right back.

We are neck and neck with Notre Dame coming down the stretch. Our defense is playing lights out. Fourth and long at our own 30. Fake punt?! What?? And it wasn't even close!! Its really pretty embarrassing.

We came very close to losing that game, and Iowa state had a shot of winning in the fourth quarter as well. Had we lost either of those games, it would have fully been on the heads of Kalani and whoever is making those decisions. We would not be number 2, we would be a laughing stock.

This team and talent this year is unparalleled in the history of BYU. The team absolutely dominated Iowa State, and dominated Notre Dame as well. We barely eeked out victories in both games because of Kalani's dum dum decisions and the punt fumbles.

Kalani kind of apologized after Iowa State, but then came right back and did it again with Notre Dame. I'm a bit perplexed and concerned. Thoughts?

Josh Pate described this game as a gritty and physical game like games were in the 90s. Of course I had to rewatch it on a TV from the 90s.

I think it’s incredible that we’re in the position we are. This is the most talented team BYU has ever had in my opinion. We have good coaches and good players. We have two big wins over two good ranked teams.

And yet, it’s quite remarkable to think we should only get better for the rest of the season. We just won our last two games (one against the #1 defense in the country) without our Big 12 POTY star running back. We didn’t have our RB2 for that matter either haha. We’ve yet to play a complete game from start to finish in my opinion either (excluding Utah Tech).

We had a slow first half against Arizona. A rough end of 3rd and 4th quarter against Colorado State. Struggled all game on offense against TCU. Left points on the board against Iowa State, and fumbled a punt return. Fumbled another punt, failed a fake punt, lost the turnover battle, and were shutout in the 3rd quarter against Notre Dame. We won all of those games. Imagine how much we can still clean up and improve as the season goes on!

I’m very excited to see us build and improve because I think it’s part of the identity of this year’s team, and the culture Kalani has implemented. Stay humble, stay hungry. Fix and iron out those mistakes. Can’t wait to see what our fully functioning team can look like! Go Cougs!

Hey Cougar fans!

I’m on Adam Breneman’s team (CBS Sports, called the Colorado State game earlier this year).

Full honesty: our whole crew is all in on BYU right now.

We’ve been watching this team closely since that CSU game, and the Notre Dame win has all of us fired up.

Adam just did a full breakdown of it, and his verdict is that BYU isn’t a Cinderella anymore. They’re a legit national title contender.

Where’s he right, and where’s he wrong? Can this team actually beat a Georgia or Ohio State on a neutral field?

Came across this…. Loved every minute of it

https://youtu.be/4ZZ9AwjZAbo?is=AI1fcyM70WZ0N-J5

Hello everyone.

I have no direct connection to BYU, but I work for a media agency and we do work for The Joe Moore Award Show.

It caught my attention on the show when BYU was selected on the midseason honor roll, and then this week Landon Tangwall (a former college lineman) did a film breakdown on the Cougs. I thought to myself, wow, BYU is really good and they're actually getting attention. I feel like college football media usually treats BYU as an afterthought.

Anyway, both videos are linked here and are awesome. Forgive me if this isn't the type of post from a non-coug that belongs in here but it was too good I wanted to share. Might be becoming a Coug fan myself the way your team is playing. (if thats okay 😄)

Honor Roll announcement:

https://youtu.be/-JzQjyAdUxM

Film Breakdown:

https://youtu.be/Cljhh8XnKKU

BYU vs Notre Dame 2026 Highlights! | Announcers, Music, and Skycast Footage
https://youtu.be/Xxi7c7Xh5Rc

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New combo. We have never worn this combo with a white facemask.

I’ve never seen a football team cope harder after Saturday’s game. Every ND fan was claiming they would win by 20+ points the week before. Now they’re shifting the blame onto us, accusing BYU of cheating and playing dirty football. I’ve seen comments about the D-line supposedly cheating and causing the fumble (spike), the targeting play, DPI, the infamous one second, and even the ice cream being handed out to fans being suspicious.
I’ve tried to be classy, but after what happened last year and the constant trash talk about BYU not deserving this win, I can see why Notre Dame is hated by the rest of college football. I hope we continue to play them and beat them. We are the better team, even without LJ. Go cougs.

From my perspective people are acting like we’re about play Utah Tech.

Religious schools. Unique among others. Consistently good teams. Playoff implications.

Hubby and the fam are heading to UCF this weekend. When we’ve traveled to away games in the past, we’ve gotten in touch with people organizing the tail gate.

Does anyone have information about who I need to contact?

Dude where can I get a Bear Bachmeier jersey?? The only website I know isn’t a scam is the royal blue collective but they only have “player t-shirts,” anyone know where I can pick one up?

As I lifelong Irish fan, I love to hate you guys. A much more respectable and determined program than USC who brings the heat. I hope we hate each other for years to come, and congrats on a great win

https://cfbbelt.win/

Both of the following things seem to be demonstrably true:

1. The game clock in the stadium (and apparently the broadcast clock as well) definitely still said 00:01 when the ball hit the ground on what ended up being the last play of the game.

2. If you count frames from the instant the ball was snapped to the instant it touched the grass, it's 103 frames on a 25FPS feed. That's obviously ever so slightly more than 4 seconds that it took the play to run.

The only two explanations that make any sense to me are, the 00:04 on the clock before the play was actually 4.3 seconds or something, and the clock just doesn't display 10ths. Not even sure if the rulebook says that fractional seconds are respected in college football or not.

OR the clock operator didn't let the clock start running until some fraction of a second after the ball was actually snapped.

If it's the first one, then that puts a huge damper on the win for me. Should have let them take one more shot, I still think we could have stopped it and taken the W while escaping the asterisk.