Brigham Young Cougars tight end Kaneakua Friel (82) celebrates his touchdown against Washington State in Provo Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012.
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
PROVO — The 2012 football season is off to a good start for the Cougars.
Yes, the ones from Provo.
The BYU Cougars have a 24-6 halftime lead over Mike Leach's visiting Washington State Cougars tonight at LaVell Edwards Stadium.
Starting quarterback Riley Nelson has thrown for 178 yards on 16-for-24 passing with two touchdown tosses to lead the home Cougs to the big first-half advantage.
Nelson helped put BYU up 7-0 in the first quarter with a a 7-yard TD pass to Skyler Ridley. The Cougars' senior playmaker then added a second scoring strike — a 25-yard hook-up with Kaneakua Friel — late in the second quarter.
That was Friel's second touchdown catch, but the first from BYU's starting QB. Freshman QB Taysom Hill took a snap on a fourth-down situation early in the second quarter and turned his first collegiate pass into a 17-yard touchdown to the junior tight end.
Receiver Cody Hoffman got a quad contusion in the first half after hauling in three receptions for 46 yards. He will not return for the remainder of the game.
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Chris B
You really don't know much about football do you? The only way Utah scores 30+ points if Heaps comes back and fumbles a couple of balls in the endzone and throws an interception or two. Since that won't happen I would be More..
A certain anti-BYU-Utite predicted that BYU would score just 21 points in this game. They have scored more than that in the 1st half.
Keep marking them down, please. We enjoy it when you are wrong.
Chris B.
Where are you Christopher? You are so noisy before the games but you go stone silent after BYU destroys your predictions.
Go BYU!