Where does BYU Football stand after 6 weeks of College Football

BYU football is 4-2 after the first six weeks of the 2022 season. With still some big games to play the Cougars have to be ready to finish out the season. The Cougars still have yet to put together a full college football game this season. Injuries and coaching have played a big role in not having that complete game.

2022

4-2

The last season of independency hasn’t looked like many fans thought it would. The preseason hype was a little too high. The Cougars have yet to put a complete game together and play the whole 60 minutes they need to beat those bigger teams. The loss to Oregon and then to Notre Dame has shown the fans what the Cougars are made of and how they play football when they are down. Many fans thought it was going to be a season of highs after how strong they started against South Florida and I was also wondering what heights the team could reach this season with that kind of show.

From there the slow starts have been the way the first halves have looked. Starting slow against certain teams won’t hurt you or cost you the game but starting slowly against Oregon and Notre Dame did hurt them. Starting slow this weekend will once again cost them the game so they better fix it and be ready to play this Saturday at home. Jaren Hall has had a great season so far except for last week against Notre Dame and starting out throwing an interception and then also overthrowing wide receivers or floating balls out of bounds doesn’t end well. I hope that it was just last week and it’s not an injury because if that’s the case and he continues to perform like last week it may be time to put in Conover and see what he can do.

What also has hurt the Cougars this season is the defense and specifically the coaching. BYU adapts each week to what their opponent is doing on the offensive side which is great but the players need to fully know those details before stepping on that field come Saturday. This defense has some amazing players and also some who will go to the next level but so far we have seen missed tackles, blown coverages, mental errors, and plenty of penalties.

The seasons that I have compared to this year are 2016, 2006, 1990, 1983, and the 1966 seasons. They all had great seasons and put up at least eight wins. These years didn’t come without their ups and downs and tough losses though. What made the difference was how they bounced back the next week and continue to get better on the field. Whether it was personnel changes or it was just changing up the game plan or even just motivating each other to come out a play the full 60 minutes.

2016

9-4

Under new head coach Kalani Sitake the Cougars go 9-4 in 2016. Taysom Hill had a great season and finished his career out at BYU but once again didn’t finish the season healthy. With another tough schedule, those losses came against Utah, UCLA, West Virginia, and Boise State. Those weren’t against lesser teams but they were close and many could have been won with a field goal or just a few more minutes left on the clock.

2006

11-2

Under Bronco Mendenhall as head coach. Another season with losses occurred because BYU forgot how to play the ball through the whole 60 minutes. Those two losses came against Arizona and Boston College. After those losses, they came back strong and finished the season with the Las Vegas Bowl and beating Oregon. John Beck led the Cougars to some impressive wins but he also had his ups and downs.

1990

10-3

BYU finished this season 10-3 and Ty Detmer won the Heisman. The Cougars lost to Oregon, Hawaii, and Texas AM. Those losses were hard and they caused the Cougars to still have a great season. They went to the Holiday Bowl and lost but that loss didn’t overshadow the great season that they had.

1983

11-1

The Cougars and Steve Young finished with 11 wins and another bowl-game trip to the Holiday Bowl in the 1983 season. Young had almost 4,000 passing yards and 33 touchdowns as the starting quarterback. He also finished second in the Heisman voting. The defense was huge for BYU in 1983 and only allowed their opponents to put up 130 yards per game on average. BYU won the WAC that year and then went on to win the holiday bowl.

1966

8-2

BYU came out of the 1966 season with eight wins. Back then they only played 10 games in college football. Virgil Carter was the quarterback and he played great in his time as a Cougar. Carter started in the 1964-1966 season as a cougar. The Cougars came in second that year in the WAC. BYU lost to Arizona State and Wyoming (won the WAC). They had some tough losses that year too but they bounced back. The Cougars have the personnel to bounce back this season after a couple of tough losses.

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