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BYU receiver Darius Lassiter crosses the goal line, giving the Cougars the lead as BYU and Oklahoma State play in Provo at LaVell Edwards Stadium on Friday Oct. 18, 2024. BYU won 38-35. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Perhaps the best way to sum up BYU’s 2024 football season — with only a bowl game left on the schedule — is that it has been a success.
A resounding success.
Sure, the Cougars could easily be 7-5 or 8-4 if they hadn’t gotten a few breaks in games against SMU, Utah and Oklahoma State. But they could also be 12-0 if a couple of plays had gone their way against Kansas and Arizona State.
But they are 10-2, which is already twice the number of wins than last year, when they went 5-7, 2-7 in the Big 12, and the program appeared to be foundering after a 40-34 double-overtime loss at Oklahoma State kept the Cougars out of a bowl game.
Twelve months later, coach Kalani Sitake has a “long-term” contract extension, the Cougars are playing in arguably the most prestigious bowl game outside the College Football Playoff, against 9-3 Colorado in the Alamo Bowl (Dec. 28, 5:30 p.m. MST, ABC), and have shown that they have what it takes to compete in the Big 12.
“I think that this should be considered one of the greatest seasons in BYU history,” ESPN analyst Trevor Matich told BYUtv.
It is the third 10-win season in five years for Sitake’s program, and 19th overall in the 100-year history of BYU football. It has been quite the turnaround. Sitake credited a senior class that has carried the water for nearly five years and taken the program into the Big 12.
“They had three seasons of 10 wins or more,” he said after the 30-18 win over Houston. “That’s a huge accomplishment. That is their legacy. I am not sure how many 10-win seasons BYU has had. … They can be proud they got three of them in their…
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Publish date : 2024-12-13 04:00:00
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