Play your hearts out boys.

You can't relax....we're counting on you to carry the banner.

BCS here we come

Sounds like a great plan of attack to me. Forget about the clowns and the doctored ratings and settle in to get the present job done this week. Next week will be there to great us with it's own set of parameters.

.... LET THE COUGARS OUT... RUN UTES RUN....AND KEEP THE MAGIC BLUE CARPET FLYING BOISE STATE.....

......RISE AND SHOUT.....

Today is a statement day to the MWC and the rest of college football. Go out and make it loud and clear!!

Go Cougs!!

Go Cougs!

The statement by Mendenhall is not clear nor does it make any sense. Thanks for the "in other words..." DN, your interpretation brings the statement into focus. Are you sure that's what he means?

What is he telling our guys?

Yeah baby, let's roll!

The forecast for the game is very windy. They need to fill in the corners of the stadium to block the wind, because BYU is traditionally a passing team.

you guys are amazing

i look up to all the byu football players so much

good luck today

I know that Bronco is true.

You have got to be kidding me? You don't understand what he is saying?

He is saying that all this mumbo jumbo National Championship/BCS talk is irrelevant if they do not accomplish their primary goal of winning the conference title.

Now that non-league play is finished, they can focus on accomplishing their goals. They have their toughest games of the season still ahead of them.

Pretty simple if you stop sipping the cool-aid......

Not sure what he's telling "your" guys???? But he's telling the BYU players to remain focused, execute, perform at your highest level, go to class and everything else will fall into place.....

Just in case you were wondering?

Beautiful day in the Mountain West.....The Eyes of Texas have done their job now it's time for a Gator Crunch in Byou Country....mean while a Tigar still lurks out there....watch your back there Horns.

Kick off iS a little over 4 hours away and Univ. of Toledo just beat Michigan.... they are the 1st MAC team to have ever accomplished that feat... EVER !!! Univ. of Toledo still has a chance to break .500 and be Bowl eligible. That infamous measuring stick that the Uteys keep pulling out to compare SOS just got a lot shorter.

........RISE AND SHOUT.......

...and I am still wondering. Are you telling me you understand this...

"In order — as a reminder to the outside world — inside (the program) we consider how we play at home first and foremost of importance."

Sounds like a proclamation to "the world" yet inside the program, yet good play at home is of utmost importance, yet we are terrible on the road (did Mendenahll attend the Utah State game?).

I do sincerely hope that his communication with our players is more clear than this. No wonder DN had to offer an interpretation.

Signed,

Confused

The only thing I have seen Utah fans compare the win over Michigan to is BYUs win over Washington who, by the way, is STILL looking for their first win.

Please don't advance your spin as fact.

Speaking of fact, here's one for you...
Utah opponents have 13 wins (not including Weber St)
BYU opponents have 8 wins (not including Northen Iowa) AND that assumes a win over New Mexico today.

How do you explain that very short measuring stick, brother Scoobie Doo??

........RISE AND SHOUT....... TCU GONNA KNOCK DA ZOOBIES OUT!!!

I have to agree, that statement makes no sense at all. I am equally perplexed at the interpretation of Re: What? 9:08am. That's a lot of words to explain one sentence (which implies that it was confusing to begin with). Where do you get the statement that he is telling the players to "go to class?" By the way, please check the spelling on your favorite drink.

This is funny, folks. Our Cougs will win anyway today. Go COUGS!

Looks like New Mexico is going in for a score! Good one Cougs, let a less talented team hang around. #9 team in the country? more like maybe...#20 or so. They are way overrated.

Ok, it's 2nd quarter. BYU is playing like they did against Utah State. They have managed to score not a point. New Mexico is about to score.

I am a diehard BYU fan but it is time BYU lose this game. Let's get real about what our team is. We are a really good team that is clearly NOT a top ten team. We are more like a 20-25 team, maybe.

I would much rather our team lose to New Mexico in a pathetic contest like this then get run over in a BCS bowl, looking like Hawaii v Georgia.

BYU is over-rated. Good coach. Good players. Good athletes. Over-rated.

Now we need a reality check.

As I predicted last week. BYU will lose to TCU, Utah and one other MWC game - IF they continue to play like they did against Utah State. They may pull this win out against New Mexico but we need to reasses our expectations.

New Mexico is a respectable 3-3 team.
It's ranked 77 in the Sagarin rating.
(would be the second highest ranked on BYU's schedule so far just behind #74 UCLA)

But I do want BYU to win this game, though.
They are our little brothers and I want them undefeated when Utah play them.

SoCalUtahFan

Ref: Scoobie
I like my one fact that is impossible to contradict,.... it's more to the point. BYU has won the last two games against Utah. That cannot possibly change until at least Nov 22nd.

Nice comment. go away

Make me. LOL.

(Your intelligence really makes me laugh. Thanks for the laugh)

How about making another comment about how great your Ute offense played today! Talk about lack of intelligence. You gave us all a laugh. Thanks!

You are a big boy. Those are fantastic comments. You should be proud! I'm sure you will go away when your Beloved Yewts get throttled on Nov. 22. Don't go away. Stick around but it's gonna get ugly for you and your team.

Please note how easy it is to changes the fact you have chosen. For example, let's say the last 4 years. I'll let you report the facts brother Scoobie Doo...how many games has BYU beat Utah over the last 4 years.

As my fellow Ute fan noted above, please don't advance your spin as fact.

And please remain a BYU fan!

For the record, I did not say Utah offense played great today.

I will go away after Utah kick its little brothers on Nov 22.
Hahaha!!!!

2002-2007 Utah-BYU series:

Utah 4
BYU 2

team they have been for years!!!!

They are good, but they are not yet great.

They choke on the road and they don't play well in bowl games. I thought they were going to be different this year, but I don't think they would stand a chance against a top team. I fear we will all be embarrassed if they are invited to a BCS game. Hope I'm proven wrong on thursday, but something tells me the streak ends this week.

I hope they manage to stay unbeaten until the 22nd, and as a U of U fan I hope BYU loses. Should they beat us though, I truly hope they don't pull the regular bowl choke act.

They are the more talented team this year and next year BYU should be unstoppable. All I can say is if you guys beat us this year, please don't humiliate all of us by choking on the big BCS stage!

GO UTES

Ref Scoobie Doo
utey you can do your tootie til the cows come home. Go back as far as you want. Lets take the last 25.... I don't care.... Utah still comes up short.....

Drag your 2004 in I don't care it didn't get you a National Championship, Plus It wasn't enough for Urban to stay around. Big Flashing Deal. You've got a lot of nothing and until Nov 22nd you've still got a lot of nothing. I'm not going to waste any more time with your inane comparisons.....
Back to Urban with a real team.........so long chump.....rag on all you want.

.....Rise and Shout......

And how many games has Utah won in the last eight years, and how many games has BYU won in the last ten years, and how many in the last 15, and how many, how many, how many.....? Come on man, do better than that. If we truely want to compare the two programs, lets look at the last three years as that is when Whittingham and Bronco took over the programs. BYU has been better overall and face-to-face... however, Utah is not much farther behind. Lets be honest, Utah has a tougher schedule than BYU this year (out of conference), however it is really not that much better. Come Nov. 22, both teams will have played the full MWC schedule, and both out of conference schedules will be even more closer with Utah having a slight edge (assuming Oregan St. stays strong).

The fact is, all this schedule talk is really just like preseason talk as the two teams will take the field together and duke it out then. It is very possible that that game could provide the non-BCS team this year. Both teams better step it up if they want to stay unbeaten.

Ute fans, it's easy to scew the head-to-head record against each other to make it look good for you, but come on it's getting old... however if you want to play that game, here you go.

Last 2 years: BYU 2, Utah 0
Last 4 years: BYU 2, Utah 2
Last 6 years: BYU 2, Utah 4
Last 8 Years: BYU 4, Utah 4
Last 10 Years: BYU 5, Utah 5
Last 12 Years: BYU 6, Utah 6
Last 20 Years: BYU 10, Utah 10

It has been very even over the last ten years, so lets stop with the comparison.

Ref: Scoobie
Crowton's gone,...what a blessinig. Urban's gone......actually bolted. So, Kyle and Broncho are here....need I say more.

Utah has the inside track this year with their home games against TCU and BYU. BYU has the more difficult task of winning the championship. If I were putting money down this year I would have to pick Utah to win the championship this year.

REF: MWC champs?
If I were putting money down this year I would have to pick BYU. Both Utah and TCU had the inside track in 2006 and BYU found a way. No sense even questioning their ability to fand ways at home. I'll take that non bet.....