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It is more impressive when the player is a not a return missionary. The Reynolds kid should be atleast a junior if not a senior in age. That gives the time needed for the body to devolp. Still, it is nice to see all the talented young players these schools have.

What channel is Versus on Direct TV?

I have to agree that it may give a slight advantage, but only in terms of maturity. Other than that, there is a HUGE disadvantage in that you are basically dormant from athletics for two whole years. Returned missionaries, return slower and with less muscle than when they left. Their maturity and work ethic, however, is what gives a decisive advantage.

Versus is on 603ish. I think you may need to have the regional sports package to get it.

I think it's more impressive when they've served a mission cuz they haven't played football for atleast 2 years.

And it's channel 603 on directv.

the Utah kid is a returned missionary as well. I think it depends what position they play if it is an advantage or not. If it was such a big advantage though all the big time programs would find a way to utilize a system of some sort (military, Christian sevice, or something,) to benefit their programs. The truth of the matter is that the risks out weigh the benefits.

Direct TV has it on channel 604 called VS

I haven't heard any comments yet about why Sorensen's kickoffs seemed so much shorter against Washington. There definitely seemed to be a difference. With our terrible punting our kicking game was really a non-factor if not a negative.

I was going to ask that same question about the shorter kickoffs. I wondered if the coaches told him to try and put the ball on the goal line so that they could try to force the offense to start behind the 20, but if so, it definitely back-fired. From the UNI game it looked like he can but the ball in the endzone at will on kickoffs.

The reason the kicks were shorter, one word, altitude. The air at sea level is thicker and the ball doesn't travel as far.

But, Sorensen's kicks were high enough (depth isn't the only factor) that Washington rarely returned kickoffs past the 25-yard line. MUCH, MUCH better than last season when teams often returned kickoffs to the 40-yard line.

I have a bit of an inside source....I work with one of his brothers and he tells me that Justin was hit with the stomach flu on Thursday or Friday. This was effecting the way he was kicking.

You saw what Louks did to Michigan on the one play he ran: touchdown. Just think what Jake Locker and Washington would have done to Michigan. They would have beat Michigan by a lot more than 2 lousy points, believe me.

Utah has definitely had easier games so far this season compared to BYU. Even UNI is a much better team than UNLV. UNI would probably finish 4th or 5th in our conference ahead of SDSU, UNLV, Wyoming, and New Mexico.

And now we have to play UCLA and utah gets to play USU? Whatever. The yoots should consider themselves very lucky to be ranked at all.

GO COUGARS!!!

Take your lousy comments elsewhere, you homer. No one cares what you think about Utah's schedule versus BYU's schedule.

Trying to comapre one team to another to make your teams victores better is a dicey proposition. It is pure speculation to say Washington would beat Michigan by more than 2 points.

Washington was picked last in the PAC 10. BYU barely got by them, that is nothing to boast about, you did what you were supposed to do.

Go Utes

To Louks & Locker,
I think you are statements are very narrow minded. BYU is lucky to have not lost to UCLA twice last year and will loose this week. Remember what UT did to UCLA last year. BYU had major help from the refs at UW. UW offense was scoring at will most of the game. The arrogance of some BYU fans never ceases to amaze me. Can you compare UNI to playing MICH in the big house?

I care.

Washington > Michigan (at least in Seattle)

Northern Iowa > UNLV (anywhere)

But, the Utes do have a good football team and they do deserve to be ranked.

Michigan at Notre Dame

and

Washington vs Oklahoma

this week, will give a clearer indication of how good Michigan really is.

A decent Michigan team should be able to beat a Notre Dame team that barely squeaked by, at home, an awful SDSU team.

The Oklahoma/Washington game will be a little harder to judge since Oklahoma is good enough to dominate most of the teams in the Top 25. If Washington plays Oklahoma close, that's a good sign for the Huskies.

"UNI would probably finish 4th or 5th in our conference..."

Bwah-ha-ha!

Washington is better than MICHIGAN? WHAT? Luckily, both teams are very down or the cougs certainly would have lost (BTW they made a HUGE play to win that game and deserved the W / not the penalty though). The utes shut it down and sucked in the 2nd half, I blame Ludwig.
UM's defense was largely intact from last year and they were DOMINATED in the 1st half. What would locker do to them? A LOT less than he did to the cougars. I doubt Vegas would lose to Northern Iowa, Sommers would run those little linebackers over and carry them on his back much more than the 1st half against the Utes.
I hope UW shows up at OU and plays well Locker is a stud, but I wouldn't bet on them even if the line was 21 points against OU.
Anyway stupid argument, but Here's to both teams beating at least one more BCS Conf. team this year, the cougs seem to have the much bigger challenge against UCLA vs. Oregon St. for the Utes.

U.W offence scored at will? I guess they must have lost their will.You'll be no where to be found come monday when B.Y.U wins, or do you just make stupid predictions each week.

Well, actually, we all care about the well written posts by those who have general intelligent quotients above 95. And by those who have something to say, other than mindless, baseless, negative and contrarian comments, which are posted by yewt fans, just like yours was. The belief is, UDub would have beat Michigan by 10 and the fact is UNI does have Sagrin ratings higher than some in the MWC. It is, however, not higher than Michigan. Locker would have run at will on UofM.

I was at the UDub game. Although it was beautiful, the humidity was high, especially in the first half, which caused the kicks to not travel as far. I don't think that and the lower elevation made up a 15-20 yard difference, but certainly contributed in a significant way. It makes sense that Sorenson was not feeling well.

Last, everyone who knows anythiing about RM's know that they come home slower, heavier, with less muscle tone and less the killer instinct than that of a true frosh. The one advantage is maturity. And I love that about BYU sports. Chambers, Sorenson, etal, are great additions to BYU. Go Aggies!