Add one more to LaVell Edwards Stadium memory to the list, as BYU hosted — and won — its first Big 12 Conference game Friday night.
, at least the ones dressed out in royal blue, fully grasped the significance of the moment.
Sandwiched, then, between those two slabs of time, BYU football full-on belonged against the Bearcats. It had no reason, whatever a favorable outcome looked like, to have to justify its existence with the heavy swing of an insecure hammer, to prop itself up, on account of the fact that no one would believe that a victory was as legitimate as the numbers on the scoreboard seemed to indicate. All the dancing in a hall of mirrors was done, most of it anyway.
For instance, the BYU offense early on appeared intent on showing an ESPN audience that it had no business playing in the Big 12, that it actually belonged in the Mountain West or who knows, the Ivy League. It did so by repeatedly disemboweling itself. Sorry, that’s kind of gross. But so was the attack.The Cougars couldn’t run or throw the ball, not with any consistency or efficiency, really not at all.
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