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comment from Joe Klatt. Now, Joe Clatt has not been
overly friendly to BYU this season. He has doubted BYU
at every turn. He only recently started to put BYU
at his top ten. And this is what he had
to say about the BYU Cincinnati game. Obviously BYUS light
favorite in this game, but they're going on the road
versus a team that has a prolific scoring offense, a
great quarterback and a wide receiver running back that are
returning into the rotation and starting lineup. This is Joe
Klatt discussing on his show the BYU Cincinnati matchup.
Speaker 4: All right, next one BYU at Cincinnati. BYU is ranked
number eleven in the country. Cincinnati is looked great as
of late, and this line is only two and a
half towards BYU. What what what I'm sorry, I saw that.
So just so you know, and I think I've said
this before in the show. I always kind of think
about the game. I talk about the game with Steve
and Steve and I and He'll be like, well, what
do you think the score is?
Speaker 3: And I was like, fourteen.
Speaker 4: I think that BYU wins it by twelve or fourteen,
And He's like, what if I told you the line
was two and a half? I was like, what what
am I missing? What is happening right now? I feel
like I'm taking crazy pills. I feel like Mugatu just
ran into the room by you looked great last week.
They control their own destiny for the playoff. They continue
to win, they win the Big twelve Championship, They're in
the CFP. They were balanced last week against TCU. I
know they've been better at home than they have been
on the road. They had a tight game against Colorado
on the road, but one. They had a tight game
against Arizona on the road, but one. They played really
well against Iowa State and then got beat by Texas Tech.
But if you watch the game that they played last week, No.
Speaker 3: Two and a half? What are we doing?
Speaker 4: I've got to give Kilanie Sataki a lot of credit.
He's twenty and three, twenty and three since the start
of last season. We talk about Kurt Signety and his record,
Nobody talks about Kolonie Sataki and his record.
Speaker 3: Twenty and three.
Speaker 4: Only three teams with a better record at Ohio State,
Indiana and Oregon.
Speaker 3: That's the only three in all of college football. This
guy gets it done.
Speaker 4: I was so impressed with what they did against TCU
because of the balanced nature that they did it. They
were able to throw it with Bachmeyer on some series.
They were able to run the football with LJ.
Speaker 3: Martin. LJ.
Speaker 4: Martin is outstanding. Their defense is aggressive, they are physical,
They're old. They're old BYU is always old. This is
the same team as Utah and beat Utah. They have
the same philosophy, they have the same players. Klanie Sataki
grew up and cut his teeth as a coach under
Kyle Whittingham at Utah. And you know what Utah did
the cincinnat just a couple of weeks ago, back to
back losses. They were blown out at Utah by what
was it thirty Then they lost at home to Arizona
last week.
Speaker 3: I know that they want to run the ball.
Speaker 4: Cincinnati and Soresby has been good, and I think it's
been a solid season, But like, come on, two and
a half, what are we talking to the line? That
what am I missing? BYU? I like them winning this game.
I think Bachmeyer is getting better as the season goes along.
He does not play like a true freshman. He didn't
play like a true freshman last week. That was a
tremendous bounce back after the loss of Texas Tech. And
you see the nature and the character of a team
with how they play when they come back and play
the next week. Bachmeyer was terrific. The run game was terrific,
the pass game was terrific, the defense was terrific. He
was twenty three or thirty three for three hundred and
fifty five total.
Speaker 3: Yards and two total touchdowns.
Speaker 4: Like you know, I can't do it. Cincinnati loses to
Arizona at home, and I just like BYU in this
one at thirty one to twenty four, I'm coming back
to you seven points there.
Speaker 3: I thought it was gonna be fourteen.
Speaker 4: I will come towards the line seven and I'm still
covering the two and a half, Like, come on, b YU,
thirty one Cincinnati twenty four. BYU is giving two and
a half. I still I don't understand that. I don't
understand that at all. Absolutely give the two and a half.
Speaker 2: By the way, pulling the spread numbers b YU against
the spread seven and three this season, so they've been
pretty gosh day good good teams cover or good teams win.
Great teams cover, and BYU has has been covering one
of the best teams in the in the college football
world this season. They're like top I think they're top
fifteen versus the spread. All right, let's get out to
the hot line. Welcome and former BA quarterback get a
little scattering report on the Cincinnati Bearcats.
Speaker 3: See what he see?
Speaker 2: What he's got cooking up for these Cougars for a
Saturday matchup versus Well, we got bear versus the Bearcats.
Speaker 3: Steve Clements on the Live Steve, how you living?
Speaker 5: What's up?
Speaker 3: Brother?
Speaker 5: How are you living?
Speaker 3: The dream?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: Living the dream?
Speaker 2: The BWA you Cougar basketball team dominating the Badgers? Now
I need the BWA Cougar football team to dominate the
Bearcats to have a complete weekend.
Speaker 3: How do you see this game? Steve?
Speaker 5: Uh boy? After last week boy, and when you go
from Texas Tech who where they really struggled offensive laser
move the ball to really not having an issue with TCU.
Granted it was at home. I don't see if a
carbon coffey of the TCU game, but I see I
see him kind of hit a stride here late in
the season, which is good I think for Cougar Nation.
And I see it win him by ten points over
there in Cincinnati, I really do.
Speaker 2: It would be nice, right, we were just here from
Joe Clad and he feels like BYU's been disrespected with
that two and a half line. See he says a
seven point victory, but it almost seems like he's leaning
towards a big scoring output because he kind of feels like,
maybe I don't know something. Well, Cincinnati does return a
really good running back and a really good wide receiver
from their from their their injury report, and BYU does
lose a few guys to Whalen Laa who that's a
loss for BYU along the offensive line, uh as far
as the injury report is concerned, but overall by is
pretty healthy. H Are you are you all worried that?
Look at top ten quarterback in college football, Brendan Soorsby
per pff Uh, he's been very productive.
Speaker 3: He he's a little bit inged up. He's got a
little ankle injury right now he's dealing with. Uh.
Speaker 2: He gets two stars back in his lineup. Can they
make uh?
Speaker 3: Maybe? Can they score a few more points than than TCU.
Speaker 2: Did being at home and having some more firepower behind
him against his BYU defense?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think playing at home that might give him
another touchdown. But again, defense, this is gonna win championships
all the time, and with Jay Hill calling our defense,
I don't I don't think we're gonna have a problem.
I don't. I don't know if it will be the
blowout that maybe Joel said it might be. That would
be great if it was. But you know, ten points
is that's a pretty good spread. I really do think
that we're gonna hit a hit a high here and
go on a little run to finish the season out
and to make the see if he playoffs.
Speaker 2: So I love it, man, I feel like by us
in the in the in the driver'sy right.
Speaker 3: They're the master of their own destiny.
Speaker 2: They can clinch right now, they can clinch if a
few things happen as far as UH their side of things.
Texas Texas Tech can also clinch too. B WA clinches
with a win over Cincinnati and losses by Arizona State
and Houston, or with a win over Cincinnati and Arizona
State loss.
Speaker 3: And Utah win.
Speaker 2: This maybe the first time BYU roots on a Utah
football team when there when they're kind of separated, right,
So this could be a clinching weekend for BUYU. How
great would that be to head into UCF week? Is
that a good thing or a bad thing to be
able to clinch this weekend? Do they let their guard
down versus UCF at home, et cetera.
Speaker 3: Give me your analysis on that now.
Speaker 5: I don't think. I think there's team's manufactured a little
bit differently than those in the past, as we've talked
about really the last couple of weeks, as far as
the maturity of the ball club, the experience in both coordinators,
and then Klonnie's tenth year, I think this team just
feels way different than it has before, and so I
have every bit of confidence in these guys. I don't
think it would be a detriment UH for their you know,
their psyche to win and clinch. I think they're gonna
go ahead and take care of business at home and provo,
but obviously that all starts with tomorrow's game in Cincinnati
and focusing on that first and foremost, and being one
to oh coming out of the weekend and on to
see what happens and what the ramifications are and a
BYU win and whoever loses. I don't think they're going
to talk about that. They probably don't. I don't necessarily
care about that. It's, you know, focusing on what they
need to do to beat a really good Cincinnati team
on the road, and then chips fall wherever they may
and then we go from there.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well I'm optimistic about the future here. Getting
over the hub would be tremendous, and getting over a
hump with a true freshman quarterback something that's quite novel.
Bear Bachmeyer's doing something that pretty much no other college
football players have done, even like the you know, we
were compared to trasting other true freshman quarterbacks that have
gone undefeated, et cetera. But I don't think they started
as the starting quarterback at the beginning of the season,
whereas Bear has. If BYU gets to the college football
playoff being led by Bear Bachmeyer. This would be something
that is transcended, something that rarely, if ever, happens in
college football. Assess you know the gravity of that situation
for me? And why maybe Bear is built for these moments?
Speaker 5: Well, well, obviously he's extremely smart, he's extremely talented with
the ball in his hands, and to put a lot
of trust in all was he the uniniteeen.
Speaker 3: Eighteen, nineteen year old man.
Speaker 5: Nineteen year old? I mean, that's kind of extraordinary. I
don't think it's it's foreign to the BYU football program, because,
let's face it, BYU is known for the quarterbacks and
have been for fifty sixty seventy years. So that in
and of itself is not so much a surprise or
a shock that BYU has another really really good quarterback.
Now this one just happens to be a true freshman,
and he's putting kind of the at least the offensive
side of the ball on his shoulders and we go
as he goes, which is fine. Obviously he's been able
to do this and do it very successfully. It's fun
Washington play. It's fun for Cougarnation. I'm sure to rattle
off all these wins and for this season. And I
really do think that this is a different team this
year than in the past because of their mentality and
their psyche. And that's a testament to Kilani and the
way he's being able to focus these guys. After a
win win against our rival Utah and pro bo beat
Ahawa State, and then turn around and lose to Texas Tech,
but then flip that and be able to beat a
decent TCU team at home. I just I keep going
back to mentality. It was really important, especially this late
in the season, to be playing as well as we're playing. Yes,
we're a freshman quarterback at the helm, but I really
think it speaks to Kalani's masterclass of coaching the game
of football and teaching these kids that you cannot rest
on your laurels, you can't get down when times are hard.
It's all about being in the present and playing the
next play and then move on to the next and
step by step, play by play, series by series. That's
how this team has gone. And it's just a testament
to Kwani and really how well he's put this team together,
kept them together and then being successful on the field
and performing at a high level week in and week out.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this question.
Speaker 2: So, if b what you get to the Big Fuel
Championship game and they go up against Texas Tech, which
head coach deserves Big Twelve Coach of the Year honors?
Is it Texas Tech coach McGuire or BYU's coach Kalate Satake.
Speaker 5: Well, we're all biased and Sugar Nations, So I obviously
I'm gonna say Kilani because Texas Tech beat US at
home with College Game Day and and all the hype
and all of that stuff. If they were to beat
if they would have beaten us in provo, yeah, he's
coach of the Year. But like they beat us in Loving,
so they were supposed to. And so I think whoever, yeah,
whoever wins the Big Twelve Championship game deserves to be
Coach of the Year in the Big Twelve Conference. So yeah,
that's my opinion.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm right there with you. Look, this is the thing.
Speaker 2: The argument would be centered around losing your starting quarterback,
you know, two weeks before like Paul Camp or two
months before Paul Camp or whatever it was, and having
to go out into the portal and get a true
freshman quarterback that hasn't played a lick of college football
and put him into your starting role at quarterback. I
don't care how many stars he has, and he leads
you to a nine in one season. So I think
that just that alone, getting to the Big Twelve championship
game and not having the same nil offering, is that
of Texas Tech that merits the Big Ten or Big
twelve head.
Speaker 3: Coaching I guess head coaching job of the.
Speaker 5: Year certainly, And again we go back to what you
and I have talked about the last couple of weeks.
Is the big for this team to rebound, Well, that's
I'm sorry, that's because of.
Speaker 3: The head coach.
Speaker 5: They were able to go beat a state in Iowa
after being in their arrival because of CLONEE. They were
able to rebound from a loss at Texas Tech and
beat a TCU gay Or team and really blow him
out of the water the very next week. So those
two instances right there, obviously he would have my vote.
And because I see it a little bit different having coach,
even though it was high school, it's a there's something
to be said about the head coach and their ability
to influence kids and get them back to living and
playing in the present, whether that's a play or a
game or whatever. And Clonnie has now mastered that, and
I think he deserves to be Big twelve Coach of
the Year and have recognition or at least gives some
love for National Coach of the Year. I mean, goodness, Grace,
you want to just get through with Bear alone? Like
you said, the merits would favor that because.
Speaker 2: I think if they get to the colleg football playoff,
if they if they somehow somebody favorite to be Texas
Tech in the the Big Tell Championship game, he would
definitely merit that.
Speaker 3: I mean, kidn me, I mean the over under like.
Speaker 2: The last two years, the total win prognosticators, okay, Vegas
and all the analytical gurus that think they know something
about ball that they think they know something about Brigham
they don't know, but they're about to find out right
that they built different with Kilanie at the helm. The
total wind like mark was four and a half I
believe last year, and this year is six and a half.
Speaker 3: So they're twenty and three right now.
Speaker 2: They could end up by the end of the season
twenty two and three. If they get to twenty three
and three, I mean, look at that. I mean that
is significantly overachieving versus the expectation. And you lost your
starting quarterback right before this lesson. I mean, to me,
it's not even close. To me, it's not un close.
Now Signetti is right there with Indiana, right, he's gonna
get it. He's gonna get it because he's in the
Big Ten. But goodness graces me o mi versus the expectation,
I mean, Kilani deserves it.
Speaker 3: Kilani's right there.
Speaker 5: Sure, And I mean do the math. That's what ten
wins they were supposed to have only the last two
years to a potential twenty two maybe twenty three wins. Yeah,
that's that's quite significant. And you're right, Indiana's Big ten
conference and they're gonna give it to one of those
cats over there.
Speaker 3: And they're falling here they are.
Speaker 5: They're good. He's great, cool, Yes, he really is. I
tell you what that Bachmer kid, I ever tell you,
who're reminded me of Kenna? Reminds me of right handed throwing,
better throwing Tim Tebow? I ever tell you that just
saying that's just me. I don't know, that's just what
I I see.
Speaker 2: It's any hate mail by the way for that, you
get some DMS.
Speaker 3: I know, I you know.
Speaker 2: See this's why I love Steve because like he's not
gonna we we took that quote, ran with it, and
he got all the bitchrial right, all the hate and.
Speaker 3: Howbody's been validating and indicated.
Speaker 2: Right, You're sitting at the top of your mountain and
you're like, hey, who knows ball?
Speaker 3: Who is a ball Nober? My name is Steve Clements,
the ball noer.
Speaker 5: I don't know about that. But that was fun. It's
it's continued to be fun. Yeah, I got I got
a few dms, but you just breathe in, breathe out,
move on. It's kind of fun and then chuckle at
the same time.
Speaker 3: So yes, a good yes, indeed.
Speaker 2: Steve Clements here on ESPN the Fan talking to BYU
Football as we get prep get ready for the Cincinnati
Bearcat matchup on Saturday. B YU was never lost to
the Bearcats, big new kickoff will be there.
Speaker 3: But uh, you know, I just I wonder if if.
Speaker 2: This team is built different, you know what I mean,
if what would the lessons learn in Lubbock that propelled
them to greatness versus TCU, And do those translate over
to the Cincinnati game, of your opinion, But I.
Speaker 5: Think again, it all starts from Monday to Thursday during
their practice and the mentality that Klannie's allowed put them
in between or really in the locker room and in
their meetings and staying sharp and being focused. And you know,
I don't know if we ever talked about this, but
it seems as though it seems this year was different.
When I watched them early in the fall, this is
before the season started actually out there. Back then it
was late mid to late August, and I'm watching practice,
and really in the past, honestly, Ben, I would go, Okay,
these guys play their first game in four months or
three months. Just the sense of urgency it did seemed
like it was there. To now, it's every practice from
August to even a couple of weeks ago when I
went down there, they're getting ready to play the National
Championship in three or four days. And that's the difference.
I think, not just well in the past that I've
seen practices, whether that's spring or just before fall season, well,
that's Clinie, that's coaching, that's j and that's a Rod
and the entire staff putting way more focus on this
program to be where it used to be, which was
naturally ranked and recognized. And I think we're really honestly
seeing a change in a consistently that what puts us
back in the top ten, top fifteen every single year,
and we're we're on the inside looking out rather than
outside looking in.
Speaker 3: Now. Great day to be a Cougar, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Hopefully they can continue to win when their way through
the schedule and find ways to get w's. Hopefully it
happens again this Saturday versus Cincinnati. APPRECIATEHS Steve always appreciate
our time, great insight, great commentary today on a keeping
up with the Cougar segment.
Speaker 5: All right, buddy, go coog, All.
Speaker 3: Right, we'll catch up in the end next week.
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