BYU’s path to a New Year’s Six bowl game still requires close to perfection. But after the Cougars knocked off No. 9 Baylor and leaped into the top 15 in the country, that path is coming into clearer focus now.
Not only did BYU vault over a major obstacle —Notre Dame has opened the season by losing twice. Oregon, who BYU will visit this week, opened the season by getting beat 49-3 by Georgia.
Of course, things can change instantly and pivot in the opposite direction. BYU’s defense needs to stay healthy. The Cougars also have tough, if winnable, games ahead. Oregon on the road, right off an emotional win, is going to pose a real challenge. But when it really mattered, BYU showed its depth could handle the sheer volume of plays and physicality. Max Tooley was fantastic all night. Keenan Pili worked well alongside him.
He checked the ball down, made the right plays and almost under-the-radar churned out 50 points of offense. His quarterback rating was 161, but it still felt like he didn’t do everything he could have. Hall might have had a rating of 69 in this game, almost 100 points lower than last week. But make no mistake, this was a far better performance.All offseason, we were told about BYU’s depth on the offense line —But for the first time in a while, there were some issues on BYU’s offensive line on Saturday. Hall was under pressure at times and the running game had no holes to run through.
But with how good BYU’s offensive line is supposed to be, you would figure there would be a couple of plays later in the game where the offensive line would win some battles and open up some holes. But it never did. Brooks’ longest carry of the game went for 6 yards. Lopini Katoa’s longest run was for 7 yards.
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