6th place and going to the Veg: BYU vs Utah bowl game thread.

[MartyFunkhouser]

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[Mormon Red Death]

Play it safe? Fake punk, going for it on 4th down twice when you have the best punter in the country? KW didn't sound like was at all happy with his offense in his comments to ABC after the game. I didn't get the impression that playing it safe was at all part of the plan.

They threw down the field only twice. Lots of runs. The fake punt was going to happen no matter what.

[creekster]

Nah, fluky but good football plays. Right place, right time sure but hitting Tanner's arm, playing the slant perfectly...those are good football plays. That is not a very good Kyle coached team but they made the plays early and than did what Utsh does...shorten the game and make it about the W.

fluke IS luck!

Fluke=unlikely chance occurrence, especially a surprising piece of luck.

This is the point: Utah did not "dominate" the first quarter. they were lucky ot have a jittery BYU team make bad plays and funmble and they had a couple of good plays. But it seems fairly clear to me that the best team did not win.

[The_Douger]

Would you have any expected me to lay low had byu won? Or would have you been saying I was running and hiding after a loss?

He's probably trying to tell you that you have the sports intellect of a second grader and to stfu.

[CJF]

They threw down the field only twice. Lots of runs. The fake punt was going to happen no matter what.

That has way more to do with your OL don't doing better job on the pass rush and lack of decent Utah receivers. The Utah WR's were not getting open.

[MartyFunkhouser]

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[creekster]

Yes. We put pressure on a freshman QB playing his first rivalry game and rattled him. Yes they were forced.

We outplayed you. We won. Deal with it. We are the better team.

Yes, that pressure really slowed him down after the first 12 minutes, didnt it. What happened to your most excellent scheme then? did he just become acclimated to the rivalry game (and thank you for admitting it)?

[creekster]

Would you have any expected me to lay low had byu won? Or would have you been saying I was running and hiding after a loss?

No, I would expect you to do pretty much what youre doing right now. typical.

[myboynoah]

They threw down the field only twice. Lots of runs. The fake punt was going to happen no matter what.

And BYU wasn't ready for that? What were the coaches thinking? Every time uofutah lines up for a punt I anticipate a fake. As the announcers noted, uofutah needs that kind of trickeration to win.

[CJF]

Anae put up 28 on a very good defense. He exploited the Utes weaknesses perfectly. Anae is a damn good OC and I'd take him at Utah without hesitation. I'm glad he is gone too.

I don't get the BYU hate for Anae. I'm glad he's not the new BYU head coach, but he's been very very good the last two years. I will miss him.

[jay santos]

Nah, fluky but good football plays. Right place, right time sure but hitting Tanner's arm, playing the slant perfectly...those are good football plays. That is not a very good Kyle coached team but they made the plays early and than did what Utsh does...shorten the game and make it about the W.

lol, not lucky to score five TD's on five straight TO's the first five possessions of a game? How often does that happen? The rest of the game obviously demonstrated that was luck. If the rest of the game Utah continues to dominate physically or at least not get dominated by us, then you might say that start was not completely lucky.

[creekster]

I don't get the BYU hate for Anae. I'm glad he's not the new BYU head coach, but he's been very very good the last two years. I will miss him.

I dont hate him. I thought he was a good OC. But he chose the cavaliers. SO gtfo.

[old_gregg]

I don't get the BYU hate for Anae. I'm glad he's not the new BYU head coach, but he's been very very good the last two years. I will miss him.

if i never see a draw to the weak side on3rd and long that would be ok

[Blueintheface]

You know something is wrong when I'm the voice of reason. Those "luck" plays were forced by active players.

[MartyFunkhouser]

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