After watching week 1, how do you feel about BYU's season? Are you more optimistic? Less optimistic? Unchanged? If your opinion has changed, why?
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Originally posted by Sizzle View PostAfter watching week 1, how do you feel about BYU's season? Are you more optimistic? Less optimistic? Unchanged? If your opinion has changed, why?
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Originally posted by Top Ute View PostLike Utah against Pitt, this was a game BYU could have lost. While I don't see anything that would change my sentiments about TCU, FSU and Utah -- all lock losses, IMO -- if I were a BYU fan, I'd feel a lot better about tossups vs. Nevada and AFA after beating Washington -- a team more in the range of Nevada and AFA than TCU, FSU and Utah.
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Originally posted by Sizzle View PostConsidering the rivalry game a lock loss this early in the year with the way the game has been played the last 10 years shows the red lenses you have in your glasses. If I were objectively picking today, I'd lean towards Utah, but the level of confidence required to call it a lock is asinine.
I also tend to believe that BYU's offense could improve a great deal, but the 2 qb system is going to negate that to some extent. I doubt Riley Nelson will be able to move the ball against Utah as well as he did Washington and it isn't like BYU was moving the ball at will to begin with.Do Your Damnedest In An Ostentatious Manner All The Time!
-General George S. Patton
I'm choosing to mostly ignore your fatuity here and instead overwhelm you with so much data that you'll maybe, just maybe, realize that you have reams to read on this subject before you can contribute meaningfully to any conversation on this topic.
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Originally posted by Sizzle View PostConsidering the rivalry game a lock loss this early in the year with the way the game has been played the last 10 years shows the red lenses you have in your glasses. If I were objectively picking today, I'd lean towards Utah, but the level of confidence required to call it a lock is asinine.
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Originally posted by Top Ute View PostRanked Utah team, playing at home with an experienced QB has equaled two blowouts at RES the last two times out, covering three meetings. The only thing that would change my mind regarding this game would be for BYU to put forth a very respectable showing at TCU -- like losing by less than two TDs.
I am guessing if we beat TCU that still does not change your mind, that is how big of a homer you are.*Banned*
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I agree. If there's anything the rivalry has taught us over the past few years, it's that it's very unpredictable. There aren't many blowouts anymore.
That said, if I had to pick the winner today I'd go with Utah based on their play against Pitt and home field advantage. They made a lot of dumb errors that could have lost them the game, but in theory they'll clean up that stuff...but then again it's the rivalry game so who knows?
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Originally posted by Top Ute View PostRanked Utah team, playing at home with an experienced QB has equaled two blowouts at RES the last two times out, covering three meetings. The only thing that would change my mind regarding this game would be for BYU to put forth a very respectable showing at TCU -- like losing by less than two TDs.Do Your Damnedest In An Ostentatious Manner All The Time!
-General George S. Patton
I'm choosing to mostly ignore your fatuity here and instead overwhelm you with so much data that you'll maybe, just maybe, realize that you have reams to read on this subject before you can contribute meaningfully to any conversation on this topic.
-DOCTOR Wuap
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Originally posted by Top Ute View PostLike Utah against Pitt, this was a game BYU could have lost. While I don't see anything that would change my sentiments about TCU, FSU and Utah -- all lock losses, IMO -- if I were a BYU fan, I'd feel a lot better about tossups vs. Nevada and AFA after beating Washington -- a team more in the range of Nevada and AFA than TCU, FSU and Utah.
Categorizing them as mere "tossups" (especially Nevada) is as a heavy indicator of unobjective bias.
Since about '07 or '08, the four top non-BCS programs have gotten so far ahead of the rest of the field that even in rebuilding years there's little chance of them losing to anybody but each other and top BCS opponents.
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Originally posted by cougjunkie View PostBy the time BYU plays UTah Wynn will have what 15 games under his belt? Is that experienced?
I am guessing if we beat TCU that still does not change your mind, that is how big of a homer you are.
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I'm continually impressed with Bronco. His teams more than not find ways to win games. At the start of the year I had byu at 7-8 wins. Now I see it more as 9-10. The only way they lose a non Utah/TCU conference game is if they have a game with multiple turnovers or a game like the 2007 utah unlv game where everything just went wrong. The Utah game will be a toss up IMHO."Be a philosopher. A man can compromise to gain a point. It has become apparent that a man can, within limits, follow his inclinations within the arms of the Church if he does so discreetly." - The Walking Drum
"And here’s what life comes down to—not how many years you live, but how many of those years are filled with bullshit that doesn’t amount to anything to satisfy the requirements of some dickhead you’ll never get the pleasure of punching in the face." – Adam Carolla
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Originally posted by Top Ute View PostNope, if BYU beats TCU, that totally changes my assessment of Utah-BYU. That would be more than enough to change the betting line from Utah by at least a TD, to Utah no better than -3 ... a tossup with Utah getting the edge because of home field. And I'd say you're experienced with more than a season's worth of starts under your belt, one of them being the rivalry game. BYU doesn't have that kind of experience at QB.
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