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wife actors and score predictions in this segment kickoff eight
fifteen PM. It's gonna be on EFPN. But we need
the twelfth Man. We need the Cougar Nation to rise
and shout and elevate their fandom a little bit as
they welcome in the TCU Hornfrogs, who are six and
three this season. BoA's obviously eight to one. They're number
twelve in the country by US a slight favorite, only
a three and a half point favorite. The over under
set at fifty one and a half is being analytics
giving by US seventy three point eight percent chance of victory.
Hoover and the TCU Holmes Frogs know how to sling
the pill. Hoover has already thrown for two thousand, six
hundred and ninety yards. Just to give you a little
of perspective, Bachmyer's only thrown for eight hundred and eighty
one and we've been pretty overall happy with Bachmeyer's performance
as our quarterback. Mister McAllister is his number one wide receiver.
He's received eight hundred and thirty four yards this season
forty eight receptions in eight tunnies. Watch out for mister
McAllister wide receiver, big, strong, fast athletics, six foot three,
two hundred five pounds. Senior Eric McAllister wears the number
one and he's the number one wide receiver target for Hoover. Now,
Hoover's coming into this game with maybe a little bit
of a hand entry. He'll he'll most likely be wearing
a glove. That bodes well, hope you'll be BYU. Hoover
had his first game, I think in maybe the last
two years where he threw two interceptions in the game
last week Versilo State in a loss. Hopefully that allows
BYU's defense to maybe take advantage of the same situation
with Josh Hoover. But little things like this, right, BoA's
five and seven. Let me give you a foundation here,
Boy's five and seven overall against TCU with a four
and five market conference games. That's right. They were a
part of the same conference in the wag Mountain West
Big twelve. The horn Horn Frogs won the most recent
matchup of a forty four to eleven victory in Fort
Worth in twenty twenty three. The horn FOG's last visit
to Probo in two thousand and nine, when the two
schools were both members of the Mountain West Conference. They
won thirty eight to seven on that on that frightful,
frightful evening, frightful afternoon. That TCU team went on to
win twelve games that season. They were twelve to zero
before losing in the Fiesta Bowl, and finished the year
number six overall on the AP Top twenty five. That's right.
Sunny Dykes's belt well familiar with BYU, obviously having played
against him at TCU, but also when he was at CAL.
One of my favorite games in the modern at least
the independent era, was when Christian Stewart tried it out
and put up forty two points in twenty fourteen against
Sunny Dykes Cal Bears and Jared Goff. That's right, Goff
was pretty us name could college football quarterback in the now.
He's been in the league for almost ten years now,
I think in the in the National Football League at
any rate, Sunny Dykes is well familiar with BYU Cougar football,
what they do, what they do well, and what type
of personnel they employed. BYU is ranked, and they played
well as a ranked team thirty four to ten under
Koloney Satake and in the Big twelve standings. Right now,
Texas Tech leads the Big Twelve standings and they just
got to win over UCF so they solidify themselves. Cincinnati
lost to a good football team today, U of A,
who BYU beat earlier the season in double overtime at
U of A. So U of A trending in the
right direction at the right time. The BYU Cougar's gotta
love that. That helps you with any tie breaking scenarios
if you of as winning at a high level, knocking
off some of these teams on the back end, beating
a ranked Cincinnati team that was tremendous was that on
the road, that.
Speaker 2: Was on the road you and they went on the
road and beat Cincinnati at Cincinnati, moon Child.
Speaker 1: Same thing that Ba's gotta do at Cincinnati. Hopefully.
Speaker 2: Also in that quarterback named Brendan scores me, I think
through two.
Speaker 1: Picks and like that. I love that. Hopefully they're in
dire straits once Brigham takes them on here this next
week after taking on the TCU horn Frogs. Also a
couple other notes here as we get ready for kickoff,
Johnny Hardley, it's gonna be melting our faces with a
guitar solo of the national anthem prior to kickoffs. So
you gotta get here early. Make sure you arrive early.
Come and watch the end of this. B Williamn's basketball
game seven to twenty three, left Blayers down eleven to
Yukon seventy one to sixty right now. Also Hall of
Fame inductees Blio and Duck It's twenty twenty five Hall
of Fame class this weekend. The class includes Alexa Gray,
Tyler Hawes, Michelle Stewart, Trevor Matich, Jack Morris, Mark Philbrook,
and Roger Reid. The seventeen ductees will be honored during
a special presentation at halftime of the b YU TCU
football game. Another reason why you need to show up,
show out. As far as injury report is concerned, BYU
has a number of injuries, but it's not too impactful.
Cody Hagen is out. That one's that's impactful. Yeah. Wives here,
Like I felt like we could have utilized him in
the past game over the last three weeks, really haven't
too much. I think he's a separator of of he
greats separation in one on one scenarios. I think that's
a loss. I think Cody Higgin's a really good wide receiver. Uh.
And I love that tornado reverse when he's being employed. Uh.
Justin Kirklan's gonna be a red shirt issue, so he
probably won't be playing much this game. I don't think
he'll play at all.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: But Aneasy Purcell is back. Yeah, Matthias Leaks that's out.
Tommy Prasss is out as well as Marcus McKenzie who
is out. Uh and uh right now as you get
ready for this game, Ronald the three man weaver b
YU as I mentioned three a half point favorite. How
do you see this game play out? Who are your
WI factors? And uh give me a score prediction? What
are there some of your keys to the game.
Speaker 2: Just to let you know, the BYU press is given
Yukon problems. Right now, I've been a seven to ozer
scoring run that they have as Yukon just broke it.
But you know you kind of undertand so anyway back
to the WI factors. I think the Wi factor has
to be the Chase robbers. It has to be. And
it's not even a Y factor. You are the factor,
your wide receiver number one and we've seen flashes of it,
like but you gotta catch contested passes. Rule of thumb
beIN you played dB. Just know if it hits your hands,
you gotta pick it off. The same rule applies on
the opposite side of the ball. If it touches your hand,
you have to catch the ball. You need Chasing step
up big in this game against TCU. Chase has said it, oh,
we're gonna learn from last year. We're not that team.
We're gonna do better. Well, then you have to go
prove it. You have to be the leader. You got
to see on your chest. You need one hundred yard
game and a touchdown. I'm sorry, you just have to
have it. So to me, Chase Roberts, the leaders have
to step up Keanu Tonavasa the same way. The leaders
that are voted captains by the team, not the coaches,
their players, their teammates, those guys who have futures in
the NBA must perform. This is the game where when
after you got punched in the mouth, this is where
you say, look, we're gonna go out there and dominate.
You have to do that. I think that ask you.
So to me is the leaders and the veterans of
this team. I need Keu Tonavasa getting after Josh Hoover tonight.
I need Chase Roberts stepping up big in the game.
And look, I'm sorry, l Jamin, I know you're dinged. Hey,
that shoulder gotta be good to go. You gotta go
put one hundred on the ground. The leaders that were
voted captains, Ben must step up and have to play
Jack Kelly, Isaiah Glasker, all of those guys. So those
are my wife factors, the veterans of this team offensively
and defensively. My score prediction very simple, Ben, I think
they do make the statement. I think they finally are
able to make the statement tonight they do bounce back.
I'm picking BUYU forty one, TCU seventeen. I think b
YU is able to go out there and show the world,
to show the committee and Kalanie and staff is like, look,
we have to show that we're not gonna win in
a close ball game. They dominate TCU. They go out,
they kick behind, they love up their brethren and they
you know, love them the right way, but they also
send them packing home back to Fort Worth forty one
BYU seventeen.
Speaker 1: TCU been TCUs on a five game winning streak right now,
ladies and gentlemen, and the scoring margin in those games
in the modern era is like thirty points, right, thirty
points per game. They've been beating the Cougars in that
five game winning streak. It stops tonight, and I'll tell
you why it will not happen a sixth time under
the lights of level BYU. Coming off of lost versus
Texas Tech, the best team in the Big Twelve and
a top five team in college football, lessons were learned, right,
The bar for then for this team has been set,
Like we know how far away we are from being
a great to an elite team. Okay, and they did
not show their best effort. They played arguably their worst
football collectively as a team all season long, like they
just did. Special teams was atrocious. Offense couldn't get anything started. Okay,
So that's gonna change tonight. Special teams will show up.
They've been playing at a top sixth level all season long,
top five level all season long. The special teams is
gonna be better tonight. The punt return game, the kick
return game, the punt cover, the kick cover game, the
place kicking. There's no win. It's a beautiful evening. It'll
probably be about fifty four degrees at kickoff. It's an
awesome evening for college football. Shout out to the Free
Evis as they walk on by. Shout out to the
family friends of the criticles growing up. We love the
Froe Evis. And I'll also bring this up. Plenty of
players on this twenty twenty five team were a part
of the twenty twenty three loss, the thirty point loss
that they experienced on the road. Martin, need a huge
game for you. Over one hundred yards rushing and five
yards per carry. Lj I don't care if that shoulders injured.
You gotta push through it. We need a big game
from LJ, and I think he's up to the task.
Remember Chase Roberts was a part of that team. Parker
Kingston was a part of that team. Jojo Phillips was
a part of that team. They need to get open
and create space for Bear Bachmeyer in this game, and
then also get downfield and block for LJ. Martin, Preston Rex,
whoever's tote in the rock for BYU. Okay, that is
an imperative. Those three wide receivers, those are your top
three wide receivers. Those are your starters. They need to
be better this game than they were. They gotta make
big plays and big times in big games, and they
have to do it tonight. They haven't done it consistently
enough this season. And you gotta help out your true freshman.
He's put the ball in places where you can. If
it hits your hands, it's catchuble haul it in, reel
it in and play your best ball. Remember Waylon Lapoi,
who was a part of that team. He did not
have his best game versus Texas Tech. He's gonna have
a better game tonight. Under the lights of leavel know
IF's ans or buts about it. In my opinion, Bruce
Mitchell was a part of that team. Okay, he was
on the defensive line at the time, not playing much.
He's got to show up. He's got to be better,
He's got to be more physical. He's been lauded is
as one of the best centers that Byu has had
come through in a long time, and we need to
see that in effect, and we need to see that
violence from him at the point at the tip of
the spear along that offensive line. Anyway, I'm looking at
all these guys that were a part of the Cougar
football team, tallan Al Free right, Ace Kufu, see Raider
de Mooney. They all should remember what happened and rise
to the occasion and come out victorious. As far as
Mikey's in the game, my wife act, I need LJ
to run like an NFL running back. There's a reason
why I mean LJ wants to play in the NFL
and he's trending to become an NFL running back. One
of the great NFL products that have come out of Byu,
Jamal Williams, Tyler Lazier, Harvey Hunga go down the list.
We've had some great running backs come through BYU, Luke Stay,
Jamal Willis, all of them that played in the league.
LJ needs to be that guy now, big time game
under the lights on ESPN, the Mothership. Bounce back LJ.
We need over one hundred yards rushing from you this game.
He's going to be the key. If LJ runs well,
bear Bachmeyer runs well. If LJ doesn't run well, bear
Bachmeyer doesn't run well, we need both of them running
the ball effectively, in my opinion, defensively keys to the game. Okay,
this secondary needs to bounce back. Trey needs to be
refined in his technique. He's a young, talented, high level
corner back. Trey struggled a little bit versus some really
good wide receivers. He's gonna have another task. Eric McAllister, Yeah,
you don't think the NFL guy shout up to doctor Kirk.
We're gonna get that dub. Baby, We're gonna get that dub.
Appreciate just stopping by a come and watch the end
of this game. You don't think that Josh Hoover and
Eric McCallister watched that Texas Tech game. They're like, hey,
we can target Terry alexand they're coming back to Trey.
They're targeting Tray.
Speaker 2: Gonna pick number one.
Speaker 1: They're gonna pick on number one. You better be ready.
And I think he will his one hook technique, he'll
be on point. He'll be good by the way BYU
within five seventy five seventy make it a case.
Speaker 2: Make it hey, when I asked a question on your
Twitter with aj bouncing back, he's got twenty on six
to twelve shooting, by the way, and he found the
guy out of the game on one and he put
him on a highlight tape earlier.
Speaker 1: That's what the number one recruit does. Been special teams.
Watch out for the punt cover and also punt return.
They're gonna change the game. I think you gotta have
a good punt return this game and a great punt
cover situation where you're pinning them and putting them in
a very long field position or long field position where
you can take a few gambles, take a few calculator
risk defensively and put Hoover into a situation maybe throws
a pick or makes a bad decision. So I expect
Parker Kingston to have a great game this week, bouncing
back once again. Let's go. It'll be great to have
a special team. So I'm calling a special teams touchdown,
and I'm calling one hundred yard rushing from LJ. Martin,
and I'm calling this defense to task. They will be
plus two in turnover margin tonight. VYU gets the victory
thirty four to twenty four under the lights of Lavelle.
That's my score. I'm sticking to it. Lap give me
your score prediction and giving your quick keys to the game.
Speaker 3: AP for me my score prediction. I'm gonna go a
little bit more. I'm gonna go thirty eight to twenty one.
I think the key for BYU. For me, I think
they need to hit the deep ball. I think they
need to get Parker Kingston. He's been an underrated deep threat.
I think he needs to get loose. That's my key
to the game. I think yuns a few of them.
I think they get some big plays, big chunk plays,
big touchdown plays.
Speaker 1: Love it, love it all right, guys, that's our pregame show.
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