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BYU head coach Kalani Sitake celebrates an interception during the Valero Alamo Bowl in San Antonio on Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
Anything can happen, and usually does, in college football, so pronouncing any team’s roster for the upcoming season finalized and a done deal is almost always a fool’s errand.
Even predicting a depth chart some eight months before the season starts is a stretch in this day and age of the transfer portal and NIL enticements. Massive roster turnover has become the norm.
Another transfer portal window for college football opens on April 16 and closes on April 25, so for the BYU Cougars, who usually wrap up spring practices in late March or early April, there will be more departures once camp ends and players learn they aren’t part of the program’s future plans.
What is known about the 2025 BYU football team is that it should be able to pick up where it left off in 2024 when it finished with an 11-2 record and waxed Colorado 36-14 in the Alamo Bowl. BYU should be ranked in the top 25, maybe the top 15.
“Just looking forward to the momentum that we can gain from this,” head coach Kalani Sitake said after the bowl game. “Obviously, just really happy and want to celebrate with the seniors, but I think this is a really good step for us, and I am glad that we were able to get this done.”
With the winter transfer portal window having closed on Dec. 28, BYU lost a few key players — such as safety Crew Wakley and defensive end Aisea Moa — but mostly kept a lot of the guys expected to be big contributors in 2025. Credit the culture that Sitake has established in Provo, and the coaching staff he has assembled that includes defensive wizard Jay Hill.
“It is a nice cycle of things that are happening,” Sitake said after the bowl game. “I don’t mind it…
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Publish date : 2025-01-09 04:00:00
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