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BYU football: Calhoun has Falcons flying high, but still under national radar
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They are a good, quiet team.
After the win, they will break into top 25 poll.
A BYU loss will drop them out of top 20 and to about 23 in the poll depending on how other teams below BYU do on the week-end.
They will never be national champs. There is no room for the dumb, fast, thug type "scholar-athletes" that football factories can get. Finding success despite these limitations is what makes them so much fun.
He's outta there. Whittingham had a similar "no comment, don't wanna talk about it" reply when asked about the Washington job. He's gone at the end of this season, too.
I think BYU's chances of beating AFA tomorrow are very good. I'm not too worried about it and I also think they can do better against AFA than whotah did. And it's nice to see Calhoun getting their program back on track.
Pop quiz: Team A is ranked higher than Team B. If Team B beats Team A it will be considered an upset. True or False?
Go Cougs!
Since team B has a winning record, will it be an upset??
hmmm.....plus it get's even stickier since team B's players are living right off the field too added with the fact that they are American Hero's for serving our country.
Sounds like team A will have their hands full.
Go Falcons!!!!
when team A which is considered "worse" (by a group of say voters) than team B ends up beating team B.
My point: team A(irforce) is actually better than team B(yu) even it's not ranked (by a group of voters because these voters don't know better) yet. So if team A wins, it's NOT an upset.
I hope you can understand it because this is not a simple TRUE/FALSE question --but sometimes you should consider questions that require more thinking than taking 50% chance of getting it right!!!!
Go Utes and AFA!!
1. Utes
2. AFA
3. TCU
4. coogs
I'm not saying all of their athletes are this way, but most of them are and the programs are certainly led in this manner.
Good for both programs...should be a fun game.
is team D better?
No, but when team B beats team A and team U, they'll prove they're the best!
Whoa! That was just a dream. You'd have to be nuts to think all that could happen. Right?
Well, stranger things have happened already this year.
Take USC, for example. Whether they win the Pac-10 isn't even in their hands. The team that beat them could become a 3-loss Pac-10 rep in the Rose Bowl. Heh.
BYU fans, root for this dream to come true!
BSu will be upset by Idaho.
Utah will be upset by SDSU.
TCU will be upset by Air Force
BYU will win out for another MWC championship and the BCS bid.
A TUN of fans will go beserk at such outlandish predictions.
BYU fans will just smile. :)
It's called a carillon, but the Falcons are welcome to clean it anytime.
We're happy for the success the Falcons have had so far this season and Cougar fans wish them well for the remainder of the season, AFTER tomorrow.
Bottom Line; BYU is very capable of recruiting with the rest of the MWC, In fact, because of their history, fan base, coaching, etc... I believe they have an advantage over most non-BCS schools. People just don't take into account that the cougars have a young defense and have been injury plagued. No team can be absolutely awesome on both sides of the ball every year. "rebuilding" years like this one for the defense need to happen every so often.
BTW, when team B(yu) beats team A(irforce) and team U(cla), that does not prove anything especially if team B(yu) was blown-out by team T(cu) and will be soundly beaten by team UT(ah).
utah and tcu could have lost 3 games each and byu still wouldn't make it.
though they did barely beat one of the worst teams (wa huskies) in the ncaa at the end.
oh i heard colorado st might have gotten bcs bid but they lost to byu.
Oh and since you are basically out of touch with reality, the group of people who refer to a lower ranked or unranked team beating a higher ranked team as an "upset" would include the COACHES and others who vote in the polls, hundreds of sports reporters, the athletes themselves, coaches across the country, and millions of sports fans. And in case you're wondering, this strange phenomenon also occurs in other countries as well. Imagine that.
I hope you can understand it because sometimes all that is needed is a simple True/False question and you don't need to go off the deep end making up your own definition of what is an upset.
Team A(FA) beats team B(YU) and people should not consider that is an upset because AFA is better team.
Just like when team T(cu) blew out team B(yu) that was not an upset neither because (repeat after me) TCU was (and is) a better team!!!
Why is it so hard for kewgs to understand that?
1995: AFA (a 38-12 win, BTW)
1996: Did not play (old days of divided WAC)
1997: Did not play (old days of divided WAC)
1998: AFA (WAC championship game)
1999: BYU
2000: AFA
2001: BYU
2002: AFA (a 52-9 win! -- that's right, look it up)
2003: AFA
2004: BYU
2005: BYU
2006: BYU
2007: BYU
So, an actual examination of history reveals that the AFA has won 5 of the last 11 meetings (not 1 of the last 18). Lamentably, AFA has lost the last 4 meetings and BYU should be able to use its strengths to exploit AFA's weaknesses and prevail without much trouble tomorrow -- an outcome that will not please me but seems inevitable.
g0 bYu gO
GO COuUGaARS!!!
Whoever posted that Kyle Whittingham is leaving Utah at the end of the season needs to get out of the bubble. Who in their right mind wants to leave a pretty good program that he has built and coach a doormat of the PAC 10. He will make just as much at Utah, have less stress, and have opportunities to win conference championships. KWhitt is a homegrown Utah'n. He has kids in high school and elementary.
Bronco and KWhitt aren't going anywhere!!! As for the AFA/BYU game, this one should go down to the final play once again. If BYU is on the negative side of the turnovers, they WILL lose.
As a Utah fan, I want BYU to win as it will provide a 1 loss team for Utah to beat and look better for their BCS resume'.
On the other hand, if byu goes 9-0 against teams with losing records, and 0-3 against teams with winning records, that would be fine to. They would surely enjoy the New Mexico Bowl.
What a stupid comment. Just because BYU is faster than ME doesn't mean they have great speed.
This is a prime example of the knowlege/mentality of a cougar fan.
Please explain this statement to me.. "there is plenty of speed on the team, but a lack of speed as a unit?" So do they slow down when they play as a unit?
I can't even believe I am posting and trying to argue with this logic. I feel dumber now.
MFHD degree hard at work!
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Good luck Cougs!