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How would you describe how you guys gut it out
yet another tough game on the road.
Speaker 4: I think it's sent down to the desire of the
heart and the unity of this team. We built that
unity back in August and we're seeing the fruits of
that now and I absolutely love it.
Speaker 3: You put in the work in the off season.
Speaker 2: You become a champion in the off season, and I
would even include you become a champion in season by
putting in the work to keep healthy, stay strong.
Speaker 3: And that's what this team has done.
Speaker 2: They've continued to get better and better throughout the year
because they're actually putting in the work of the strength
and traditioning room as well as in the medical training room.
Shout out to counta town of Vasi, the six foot four,
three hundre pound junior at a Mission Viehu, California, the
triser from the University of Utah for doing those things.
Speaker 3: Jiano.
Speaker 2: What was the game plan coming in to stop their
ground rush attack?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's phenomenal. I mean they have a great offense.
They run it very uniquely the way that they want
to The game plan was to say, Assimon sound and
to put forth effort. With that wide zone that they run,
they're just finding a cree so it's just find a
way to get to that ball.
Speaker 2: The defense showed up, showed out, limiting the Bearcats only
fourteen points, one touchdown in the second, one touchdown in
the fourth. Four thirteen was the Cincinnati offense in third
down efficiency. They were three for four on fourth down efficiency,
but they got a key fourth down stop deep in
their own territory that was tremendous. They limited Cincinnati to
only three hundred and eighty seventy yards. Three hundred of
that was passing, and that's not a surprise. Their quarterback,
Soresby is a top ten quarterback per PFFQBR and.
Speaker 3: All of the efficiency metrics.
Speaker 2: He's also a very good runner too, and BYU held
Cincinnati is only eighty seven yards on the ground. They
did make Cincinnati one dimensional. You're not gonna be BYU.
If you're one dimensional, just won't happen. Cincinnati was also
penalized five tized for forty yards, and they had two
turnovers to boot, one fumble loss and one interception throwne
Brendan Sorosby got off his point scrambled to his right
and hucked one up and didn't have the juice in
order to get it to his I'd say semi open.
Receiver was being guarded by Tavian Beasley. Tanner Wall from
his free safety spot, just giving way getting depth, was
able to elevate and pick off the pass. The great
wall of provo if they say tannered Wall. Also, by
the way, by you possessed the ball thirty eight minutes.
Talk about game control. Cincinnati only had the ball twenty
one minutes. Pretty impressive work. Shout out to this defense
and also shout out to the offense. Tavasah Live. It
don't always get enough credit. How tough was your offensive
line on Saturday?
Speaker 3: Ours are phenomenal. I mean those are some dogs.
Speaker 4: I mean I think we had over two hundred rushing yards.
Lj's a great back, but he would be terrible if
he had no line. So they just play extremely complimentary.
Those are dogs up front. Those are my brothers. Great
people off the field, but just ruthless, ruthless players.
Speaker 2: That's funny, would be terrible if he had no offensive line. Yes,
that is seemingly a hot take, but it's an accurate one. Nevertheless,
shout out to Kiata for dropping some truth bombs on us.
Speaker 3: LJ had plenty of running room.
Speaker 2: LJ had plenty of creases where he could set up
in that outside zone even inside zone scheme and cut
back and weave its way through that offensive line that
were maintaining the blocks, putting a hat on the hat
and allowing LJ to get north south. And the great
thing about LJ in this particular game, I thought it
was interesting.
Speaker 3: Many times.
Speaker 2: You know, we as commentators fans, you know, we tend
to say things like you got.
Speaker 3: To lower the shoulder, and.
Speaker 2: It's wrong to say that because your shoulder is a
hyper mobile joint that tends to get subluxed and dislocated,
and it's it's a compromise joint. As a running back,
the best thing you can do is show a linebacker
or defensive line or defensive back your chest.
Speaker 3: It's getting low. Lower you set a gravity gravity and
show them your chest.
Speaker 2: Cover up the football and show them your chest because.
Speaker 3: That's where the core weight is.
Speaker 2: That's where the core structures are of your body. Your chest,
your abdomen, your shoulders are connected to it as well.
You engage with flextion, you flex all those muscles, You
cover up that ball, you show them your chest.
Speaker 3: How many times did we see guys.
Speaker 2: Cincinnati Bearcats flatbacked on that turf in Knippert Stadium, Rest
in peace right to some of those guys. We saw
bouth pieces flying left and right. We saw guys just
flat back time and time again because LJ was showing him,
showing them his chest. Love that LJ learning through injury.
That is significant. That is progress from a running back
that many are saying is not only a top ten
running back in this next year's draft, but maybe even
a top five running back in this year's draft, especially
after that performance on the road. A lot of eyes
were on on Cincinnati and that BYU game. They were
the haters. Wanted to be way you to lose. They
want to be validated, want to be vindicated. And there
were plenty of lovers of Briga ball that we're rooting
them on and watched LJ ball.
Speaker 3: Out under those lights.
Speaker 2: Back to back double digit win seasons since that Texas
Tech loss? What did that do for this team?
Speaker 3: Put on a sense of urgency.
Speaker 4: It made us recognize that we can't We're not just
trying to squeeze by well. A lot of people say
we're lucky. I think we're diligent, and I think we
expect to win. And so that's just allowed us to
skyrocket from that loss into where we are now is
play our football and all stop just trying to squeeze
by beat us from the beginning to the end.
Speaker 2: We're not lucky, We're diligent, we're gritty, we persevere, We
keep going.
Speaker 3: The haters keep on bringing up the L word.
Speaker 2: The team internally keeps on using different verbid as you
just heard from Kianatanavasa. That's the culture when they continually
do this year over year. Okay, you have to eventually
conclude that this team is one that perseveres through adversity,
that they make their own luck, that they are diligent,
that they execute when it matters most.
Speaker 3: You can't take that away from them anymore. You just can't.
Even if your eye test told.
Speaker 2: You differently in that game in lobb It, I get it.
Speaker 3: It's not what we wanted in lobb It.
Speaker 2: It would have been a whole lot better had it
been a little bit closer in the second half. It wasn't,
and you're gonna have to continue to fight that pr battle.
I guess the good thing is we're the bad thing
depending on how you look at it. B why you
will happen to have an opportunity at home, an exclamation
point if you will, to take on UCF, a middling
Big twelfth team that has had their ups and downs
this season. They've been competitive, but you know it's it's
not a great football team right now led by coach Frost.
You're going to get eleven o'clock kickoff time and the
East Coast voters will be able to see this.
Speaker 3: Now, we all love the Vampire Cougars.
Speaker 2: The lights of level are always where BYU plays its
best ball.
Speaker 3: It seems.
Speaker 2: But you got a day game, it's a little bit warmer.
That could be good, that could be bad. I kind
of wanted the Florida Boys to be a little bit
cold and unmotivated and slip it all over our field.
Speaker 3: Maybe a little bit drier, maybe a little bit more
sure footing.
Speaker 2: You don't get that due from the evening in the
high mountains, in our high desert. That kind of creates
that slippery turf, if you will. But could be a
good good thing, could be a bad thing. But I
think there are going to be more eyes on that
b y uc F game because it's going to be
essentially a midday kickoff. Keanu, Your coach doesn't like to
talk about the playoff narrative. What about you guys in
the locker room? Is that something you guys talk about.
Speaker 4: We try to reflect that of our culture. But we
know what the goal is and we know what it
was set out to be.
Speaker 3: So sometimes when the ranking comes.
Speaker 4: Out and we're surprised by it, we're blessed to have
this example, which is to put our head down and
go to work, and as we win and do what
we need to, then we'll be sitting well when that
comes up.
Speaker 3: Just keep on moving forward.
Speaker 2: Everybody sees it, everybody watches ESPN, Everybody hears eventually, be
a social media or on traditional media, what people are saying.
Family members will tell them, media members will bring it
up in the Q and as they eventually find doubt.
But you do, to a certain extent, have to block
out the North, and I think that's what this team
does pretty gosh dang well. A couple last questions here
for Keanu postgame Cincinnati game.
Speaker 3: What can you say about what LJ meets to this team? Keanu,
Elja's a heart and soul player.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 4: I was just eating with him a little bit earlier
today for that pregame meal. Talking to him and his
leadership is phenomenal. He may not be the loudest player,
but his play speaks for itself.
Speaker 3: His work.
Speaker 4: He's one of the earliest there and one of the
last people there.
Speaker 3: So he is a heart and soul of this team
and this offense. I absolutely love that guy. LJ.
Speaker 2: Martin Now he one thousand yard rusher sat at the
beginning of the year. If BYU gets a one thousand
yard rusher, a one thousand yard receiver and Bear Bachmeyer
is capable of getting close to that three thousand yards,
you're a big twelve champion, You're a big total champion.
Speaker 3: You're going to the College Football Playoff. That's what it means.
Speaker 2: I understand that individual statistics don't always.
Speaker 3: Equate to championships. Does it always? You know?
Speaker 2: And it may create a culture sometimes where you highlight
too much individual individuality can't undermine the culture that you're
trying to build within a locker room. But in this
particular case, knowing what I knew about the special Teams unit,
knowing what I knew about the defensive unit. The only
question was how will this offense respond after losing their quarterback.
And what we've seen is that Chase is still on
pace okay this season to be a one thousand yard receiver.
He didn't get dinged up, he didn't get injured. He
may not get to one thousand yards in the regular season, obviously,
probably won't depending on his status, get a hamstring injury
in the Cincinnati game.
Speaker 3: But he's on pace. You're right there.
Speaker 2: You got the Big twelve Championship game in your in
your vision right now. You got to take on UCF capitalism,
you know, capitalize on the opportunity to win out in
a big way at home. Double digit wins, a twenty
twenty one point win would.
Speaker 3: Be glorious for the eye test. I guess.
Speaker 2: You're on pace right now with that thousand yard rusher,
and you may have to ride that Bellcal to the
Big twelve Championship. And if he runs like he did
versus Cincinnati playing Texas Tech.
Speaker 6: They're gonna win.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have a really good chance to win. You're
gonna have a really good chance that that Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Defense is solid.
Speaker 2: They're good They're nothing like the Texas Tech defense. They're
not They're not built like the Texas Tech defense is elite.
That is one of the best, if not the best,
defense in college football. It'll give you a much better chance,
especially if Bear is getting linear rather than hopping, skipping, jumping,
going sideways.
Speaker 3: Got to get him, nor South Baby.
Speaker 2: As as many have pointed out, final thing from Kyatu
Senior Day. Next week, last game with the regular season,
one step closer to getting to Arlington.
Speaker 3: What do you think that stage is going to be
like next week playing at home. We can't wait for it.
Speaker 4: But it's just the consistency of action and being deliberate
to the culture. Every week, hand of our business.
Speaker 3: And we'll be sitting in Arlington.
Speaker 5: Yow.
Speaker 4: Thank you guys, everybody making home safe.
Speaker 3: Thank you, appreciate you guys.
Speaker 2: Boomshaka Laca. That's Keanu Tana Vasa. He had a great
game versus Cincinnati. That's why he was highlighted.
Speaker 3: You know, some would say he.
Speaker 2: Said back to back best games, that his motor is continuous,
his physicality is relentless, his style is impregnable.
Speaker 3: He was he's hot.
Speaker 2: Like Mike Tyson once said, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I know twenty telling about I was waiting three. I
know that one.
Speaker 3: I can't say.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to say. I'm not going to say
praise be to you know what. He was a Muslim
at the time. Anyway, that's Tonnavouston playing his best ball.
Speaker 7: Do you hear many in the interview though? Ben all right,
He's like make it home safe for the guys. He's like,
appreciate you guys. I left that in there for that
safe sound.
Speaker 3: Indeed.
Speaker 6: But that's what he does. He eats you up on
the field and then high brother, love you man.
Speaker 2: That's the dichotomy of a great football player. They get capability,
the ability to be what you're supposed to be off
the field and be a beast on the field alter
egos Kay tapping into the Neanderthalic bonster that he's within
while also being.
Speaker 3: A disciple of Christ. That's what you're supposed to be.
Speaker 2: It's a tough standard to me, but Keanu does it
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the football field, number one in our hearts right now,
maybe number two in our hearts behind LJ. Martin, but
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Bear Bearcats. He had a phenomenal game on all of
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All right, Brucey, game ball to the offensive line on Saturday.
Speaker 3: What do you say? Take it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 8: It was a fun night being able to run the ball.
And al J is a hug of a back. He
was finding the creases even when they were small. So
happy without the whole line performed.
Speaker 2: Sure, I'll take the game ball. We'll take the game ball.
Sure you know, always you know, humble and hungary. Is
that offensive line never getting a whole lot of love
from Kugarnation.
Speaker 3: Not the they call them the the big uglies.
Speaker 2: Typically at BYU, we call them the big sexies, big
sexy man blocking for the Brigham Young University running backs
like LJ. Martin, we give a I want a fan
base that loves and appreciates and Booie's up the Brigham
Young offensive line on and off the football field.
Speaker 3: I really do. I want us to be a trench warfare, gritty.
Speaker 2: BYU fan base where we recognize the faces that win
the line of scrimmage, so we can all do better
in that front. When you see Bruce, you see Isaiah
and Andrew and Wayland in.
Speaker 3: Austin and Kyle and the crew.
Speaker 2: You got to give him some love, shout out to
him when you see him on campus and off campus.
Speaker 3: But they don't have the helmet on. Let's get back
to it.
Speaker 2: Bruce Mitchell post game Cincinnati, what was said on that
last drive with four minutes left on the clock.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think everybody understood the circumstances. There was a
munch the need to be said. We knew we could
end the game if we went out and scored a
touchdown or were able to kill the clock all the way.
We did a little bit of both. We scored, we
got it down I think to fifty seconds, pretty much
ice the game. So that that was a really fun drive.
I think all we called was run plays, being able
to call Lj's number, and then you know, the four
guys around me just performing to the best of their ability.
That's a good defense, and we were able to run
the ball against him. No, it was a fun last
drive and being able to ice a game like that,
I don't think we've really been able to do that
this year. But I mean we took the fill with
almost five minutes of playtime and score a touchdown and
left fifty seconds on the clock.
Speaker 2: Pretty impressive, No doubt the other guy we got to
give credit to is the stash TJ woods Bau offensive
line coach. He's just getting started at Brigham. I hasn't
been here too long, but look at how well BYU's done.
You got to give credit to. You know, if we're
gonna pie chart of accountability, pie chart of credibility, you know,
attribution as it pertains to the credit. TJ deserves some
of it. A rod Is the play card deserves some
of it. But you gotta have good play, good offensive line,
no doubt, and a great running back shoot, great wide
receivers and tight ends that are willing to block downfield.
Those traditional maybe four five yarders could be busted off
for ten, fifteen, twenty twenty five with good blocking downfield.
Speaker 3: So a lot of.
Speaker 2: People deserve credit. It's want to make sure that TJ
gets some credit as well. Cincinnati's defense, you know, they've
been a decent defense this year. I want to say, like,
on average, they haven't been giving up that many points
per game. I think he's around twenty twenty twenty one
points per gage. So BA overchieved in that regard right
there on the CUSP maybe plus three, and they did
it at Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: They did it at Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Was that Bway's most prolific offensive output. No, it wasn't,
but it was good enough to win, and they did
it through grit and ferocity in the running game, Ronnie.
Speaker 7: You can make an argument that this was their toughest
win on the road. And I know people are going
to say, well, ron the Iowa State game LJ went out.
It's like, well, yeah, but Cincinnati doesn't lose a home, Ben, Like,
they're really good at home.
Speaker 2: They had their RB two back, they had you're late
in November, they had their wide receiver back, one of
their best wide receivers back.
Speaker 3: They were pretty healthy.
Speaker 7: They were in look last year when BYU was in
a position they fumbled the back.
Speaker 6: Ben just mention that.
Speaker 7: So I think just based on scenario, maybe not, you know,
opposition opponent wise, but defense, Cincinnati's defense doesn't give a
lot of points at home. They were five and one
up until that point. You beat a good football team
on the role lady November, Ben, winning matter at the most,
so I think you.
Speaker 6: Need to give by you a lot more credit.
Speaker 7: You dominated the time of possession like it was only
you were only a two and a half point favorite
Ben you were, so I think this is a good
output by BYU.
Speaker 3: Boom shaka Laca. What you know, let's go back to Bruce.
Speaker 2: He here was that kind of the game plan Bruce
an offensive lineman's dream with Baron LJ that you were
blocking for.
Speaker 3: It's awesome.
Speaker 8: You know, I always see Bear about being a full
back because he's as big as a full back. So
now it's awesome having right right, It's it's awesome being
able to have those guys just even if we don't
open something up like they're gonna go get one or
two yards just because they're so big and s so no,
it's awesome having them being able to open up the
run game with Bear in different aspects. You know, obviously
you can see we're not scared to run him in
the a gap a couple of times here and there.
So it's it's awesome having Bear and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, big becks RJ three put his arm around LJ.
Martin whispered in his ear in the pregame. You ain't
you ain't too twenty you ain't two twenty two.
Speaker 3: Forty eight, you big LJ.
Speaker 2: You've got the bear tar who is uh you know
his weight was inaccurate to start the season, and maybe
Lj's has been inaccurate as well.
Speaker 3: Now we gotta go back at check.
Speaker 2: Like for most of us, you know, we want more weight,
more height.
Speaker 3: For LJ and Bear, they're like, no, no, no, no,
slim me up, man, slim me up.
Speaker 6: I interviewed l J.
Speaker 7: I might have to go ask because I interviewed him
earlier in the season and he told me how much
you weighed in his nutrition things.
Speaker 6: So I'm gonna have to go fight check check.
Speaker 2: If you're a quarterback of running back, you want the
weight on there. You want them talking about how thick
you are, like football guys know, the football guys know, like, hey,
we want some thickness, we want some robust news. We want,
you know, not to be rotund by any means, but
we want some girth to you. Okay, they they all
want that, and then they'll talk about him like, oh,
this guy's stuff to bring down. This guy's a big back,
this guy's a big quarterback. He's got a full backs
and like he's just get there. They're gonna go off
on him, right, And you want that publicity because what
that does is that creates a kind of pr momentum
of Hey, they win through big back play, which like
not like I'll be honest, Like, the college football game
has become more of a speed game than a powerback
game over the years. It just has Like the era
that I grew up in in the nineties, in the
early two thousands, mid two thousands, before the RPO zone
read game, it was all power back.
Speaker 3: It was three yards and a cloud of dust.
Speaker 2: Even going back to the seventies, eighties, nineties, that's what
it was. So there's a lot of like altruistic college
football guys that love to see it. So make sure
you everyone wants more hype, put on more weight, you
know what I mean? Just hey, list LJ. Martin at
two forty You know how you give them a half inch.
Speaker 3: To an inch?
Speaker 6: Like, try list of myself at five eight.
Speaker 3: I'm not five eight, no, no, but like, don't give
him the height, Like who cares.
Speaker 6: About the hell you says, say, give them to like five, I'm.
Speaker 2: Saying give them five to weight And oh, I'm telling you,
football guys are just getting geek.
Speaker 3: Out about it.
Speaker 6: So give them to thirty five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, give them give them two forty.
Speaker 2: Give you're like, oh, oh, like this is the Rome
bettist like they're gonna go They're gonna.
Speaker 3: Go off like on this type of stuff.
Speaker 2: So if you want a little bit of pr I'm
not saying lie, I'm not saying lie.
Speaker 3: This is I'm saying this is like a white light
stretch of the truth. A little bit.
Speaker 6: Get the text.
Speaker 2: He will be two thirty five to forty here shortly
because he's eaten so much of this. You know, bring
up you'll get somebody cougar tails. They shout out to
Dan Wilcox, you know what I mean? Yeah, exactly, yeah, exactly,
And technically with all the pads and helmet, it's like
he's to forty. Uh, back to back weeks. You guys
have had double digit wins. What's change uh that? Uh
that Texas since that Texas Tech loss.
Speaker 8: Uh, nothing's changed. Just reminded us of what we needed
to do, what it takes to win games. I think
it's always humbling to take a loss, and we want
to get those guys again, and we understood and understand
what we what we got to do to to get
another shot at those guys. So I think it just
reminded us of what it takes to win games. Consistently
the small things, and you know there's times we were
executing the best, but when it counted the most, offense
was able to execute, defense was able to execute, and
we're able to win the game comfortably.
Speaker 3: Once again, boom shuck.
Speaker 7: I just point out this is now that I think
the third time the question was asked Keanu two segments
ago and then earlier in the second hour, you know
with LJ about bouncing back, and they all are like nothing,
just continuing to do what we do. I don't think
really anything changed, honestly, and I think that's a good
mindset to have, because if you could focus and been
too much on well this changing this when you're this
lady in the season, when you're trying to nitpick, it's like,
I don't think it goes well. And I know the
answer that this question is being asked to try to get.
But at the end of the day, no, they just
didn't show up that date to the office. And when
you show up, you perform.
Speaker 2: Bruce Mitchell starting offensive lineman, starting setter for the Uyu Cougar's.
You guys had seventy more minutes of time of possession.
What was that like to kill the clock.
Speaker 8: I'm sure the defense love that being able to watch. Obviously,
Cincinnati's a little more uptempo than us, so that's gonna
make a difference in the time of possession. But you're
able to run the ball for almost three hundred yards,
you're gonna have the ball for most of the game.
Speaker 2: Bruce Scatto, town of Vasa, said, some people call you
guys lucky. He had another word for it, diligent, is
what he said. What word would you use to describe
this team?
Speaker 8: I want to use lucky?
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know what was so lucky about tonight.
I think there was a quote said by the Texas
A and M coach a couple of weeks ago, and
we were reminded of it today that this game wasn't
one tonight, but it was one months ago. This team's
putting in a lot of hard work, and it's not
a lot of luck, but just a lot of hard work.
A lot of discipline has went into this and we're
just being able to execute and show that bridge of
discipline which we built all off season.
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, these wins come weeks ago, months ago.
Speaker 3: All that work.
Speaker 2: I'm not even saying leading up to the game as well,
not only in the game. Bruce, what do you think
a double digit win on the road says to the
College football Playoff Committee?
Speaker 8: I don't know if you can't tell. We're not too
worried about that. We just want to go and compete
for the conference. You win the Big Twelve, you're going
to the playoffs. So that's the only goal this team's
got right now.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like, look and we know that that's
the case.
Speaker 2: I mean, they they'll hear things and do that, but
you can only focus on what you can control and
not get outside of that. Do you feel like this
win sends a message for you guys about who this
team is a little bit.
Speaker 8: But you know, once again, this team just wants to
go and win the Big Twelve. We got to win
another one next week against the UCF team that you know,
I haven't really watched a film, just watched their games,
So it'll be another good game. Hopefully we can get
one for the seniors, their last one at home and
going to Arlington. Obviously we're not looking too far ahead now,
got to go beat UCF. But it's all this team
wants to do is win the conference, and if we
do that, everything else will take care of itself.
Speaker 7: Look, can I say this, Ben, They've seen what will
you have put out as a media and what the
college football playoffs said about them not be being dominated
on both sides of the ball. They've seen that. But
they can't control that. Like you've already mentioned, if they win,
they're in. That's what they can control and that's what
they have to stay focused on. They can't, like you said,
let the outside noise get to them. But they've seen it.
That's why these answers are being said like that. Look,
all we want to do is win. That's per Bruce Mitchell.
If they do anything else outside of win, Ben, then
they're letting someone else dictate that.
Speaker 6: So they can't be focused on that.
Speaker 3: But they know that it's there.
Speaker 6: They one hundred percent know as a team. But they
know that if they take care of business and win,
it doesn't matter what the national media says.
Speaker 3: You win and you're in vinal thing.
Speaker 2: Brucey, how much do you enjoy blocking protecting a backfield
that includes Bear and lj.
Speaker 8: Oh they're so humble you. I mean, you can see
all over the place there's a lot of guys who
are me guys, but not those two. They want to
give all the credit to us old lineman and you know,
they're just fun guys that have in the hollow, fun
guys that hang out with off the field. Just it's
because they're normal guys and they're so humble giving out credit.
I love blocking for them. You know those type of guys.
You want to pick them up off the ground as
fast as possible once they get tackled. No, they're just
both amazing people. Even in a wide out. It's like,
I mean, we play for each other. Hopefully we can
show that and you guys can see that on the field.
But yeah, it's awesome having them in the huddle and
how much they care for us as an align, how
much we care for them.
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Speaker 3: Welcome in, Jerem Jordan of BYU TV. Jerem, how you living? Buddy?
Speaker 5: I am great man? What's going on? Ten and one?
Franked eleven Men's hoops? Ninth soccer plan Stanford tonight in
the sweet sixteen volleyball? Just be number thirteen Kansas Women's
cross cut? Should I keep going? Life is good, dog, It's.
Speaker 2: A beautiful day to be a cougar. No, who's answered?
Bunch about it? B Yu ten and one right now
and and YO hope that all will be well versus
UCF a eleven o'clock kickoff. But before we get into that,
give me your takeaways from the Cincinnati game.
Speaker 3: Main takeaways. What are you to learn about this BAU football.
Speaker 5: Team that they do? You like Harry Potter?
Speaker 3: Ben I love Harry Potter, love it.
Speaker 5: There's the room of requirements, right, they go in there,
they get what they need. BYU goes into that room
ten times this year, and they grab what they need
for wins. Right. This game was not a shining passing game. Right.
It was a Hey, we're going to hand the ball
to our future NFL running back LJ. Martin and he's
going to go for two to two to two. I mean,
this was a man's game.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 5: It was an O line grinder and by you did
a great job of moving the sticks doing what they need. Defensively,
you talk about a field goal kicker that for whatever reason,
misses three where he had only missed won the last
two years, and by you had only had an opponent
miss one all year. By the way, then they missed three,
they get two takeaways. They they played great on third down.
This this Boa team, they don't They aren't flashy, they
don't have the style points, they don't have the five
hundred yards that told offense. They just win and if
that's not valued by the committee, so be it. But
this POA team has been spectacular. Hostile crowd, super loud music.
Kelly Pupagna mentioned todam coordinator's corner that he said it
was they were. It was so loud to the point
right up to the snap of almost being illegal. Like
there's obviously the chance happened. Whatever they bollowed it, lots
of lots of reasons not to show up. Boa showed
up again and they have a home game against the
team they should be to get to Arlington, which is
more than we could have hoped for at the beginning
of the season.
Speaker 2: How much credibility will the committee give to BYU with
that win, a double jjion win on the road versus
a quality, respected, former top twenty five college football team.
Speaker 5: Well, the hope is they do what they did last week,
which was dumb, which will say, well, this team has
wins against this team when they were ranked. Who cares
about when they were ranked? You know, the Cincinnati was
ranked two weeks ago, and they're going to give credit
for that, honister. They're bringing up Penn State for Organs.
That's too many thinks it's BYU if they are eleven
and one should be a college football playoff team period.
If you look at all the metrics, dot dot dot.
I argued hard last week for BYU to be above
Oregon and Notre Dames. Oregon finally got a win versus
the ranking. Welcome to the club dogs. BYU has one
over Utah. Utah's probably overrated too given the schedule, but
they're blowing fools out. They like the style points. That's
not what boy does for but different reasons. Whatever. If
you're a power for team, you're eleven and one. In
your strength to schedule it's top thirty, and your strength
to record it's top seven, you should be in the playoffs.
And I hope YU is, but I don't know that
they will be if they don't win the Big Twelve
title right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: If they're competitive in that Big Twelve title game, do
you think they get in?
Speaker 5: I hope so, but I don't have a lot of
faith in this committee right now. You always kind of
stuck at eleven. Why are they eleven? It should be
like seven or eight, no worse than nine. In fact
they're eleven is in atrocity. Obviously I work for BYU.
I'm gonna pound that drum, but I feel strongly about it.
But honestly, if people have been listening to my opinion
over the years, if I didn't seek if you are
deserved it, I would say it. They deserve it, they
really do. And the hope is that regardless of what
happens in the Big Twelve title game, if you're always
gonna be okay. But I don't actually feel that way.
I feel like, especially this year, where's top ten guaranteed.
But if you're eleven and the ACC champions outside, you know,
the top twelve and the G five, they take the
eleventh and twelfth seed if you potentially ride those spots.
So if YU goes eleven to one and they lose
the Big Dhal's title game by let's say ten competitive,
are they gonna stay. Are they gonna be in at
number ten? I don't know, man, because they would have
to kind of be at eight to be able to fall.
I don't think. I hope the committee does what they
said last year, which is we're not gonna penalize teams
that play in that game. Therefore, does BOI have to
be inside the top ten to feel comfortable. We're gonna
need some chaots this week, Spencer want and always tweets
out the rootables. You know the team's above bo obviously,
and you have to watch the teams behind kind of
jumping in. But the get to Arlington is within boys control.
They're not focused on the alerts at all. By the way,
the rhetorics and conversation It's like, we want to go
to Arlington and win that game, and then it becomes
the following then do we actually want Texas in a rematch?
Or do you want Utah or do you want Arizona State.
I personally would love Arizona State. Has to be a
lot of cash. That's happened. I don't think Texas Tech
is losing to West Virginia, but there are scenarios where
you know, it's really Tech Tech, Utah on Arizona State.
Those are the only four that can make it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh. I've gone into all the data, all
the analytics, so I'll be it Sagarin Massy sp plus
obviously taking into acount the ap pole, the coaches poll,
the College Football Playoff Committee poll, and you know, I
understand why the committee is doing what it is. But
at the same time, you only have the schedule in
front of you that you can that you can play.
You know, I just I don't think there's I don't
know what b why you could have done differently outside
of play a little bit better versus Tech, Right, that's
the one thing, and they kept it a little bit
closer when we still have this rhetoric.
Speaker 5: If it was a ten point game, another twenty two
point game great, and if you actually watched the game,
like it should have been Texas Tech forty two to seven.
But Boa played great in red zone defense too, of
Steven right for tex second rhythms could have been way worse.
The Bury offense needed to put up twenty one points things,
and then it's then it's a different games and yet
that's what what is what was within BoA's controller is
the one game you've lost? Was was that? And ole
Miss is the only other team, by the way, who's
only lost is on the road to another Top ten teams,
Like there's certain metrics that are favorable to BYU, but
the eye test and the efficiency and whatever. Defensively, Bulwa's
pretty efficient. Offensively, they're not the most efficient or uh,
you know, explosive team at times. But isn't it about winning?
Isn't that the point? And then we have to sort
of discuss among the winners who's the most deserving, Like
who's better. I'm ka talking about Oklahoma and Alabama and
kind of they have two losses, but like they have
some really good wins and they have better strength to
schedule and they have more good wins than Bo per se.
But when it does settle, YU might have two wins
over nine plus win teams. The Arizona be Aarzona state
that the nine and three Wildcat team. Obviously Utah's at
nine to two expected to win this week and be
a ten win team. Those are two good wins. Man Like,
Arizona might be a ranked team on selection Sunday and
that might be the second best win. There's all kind
of data points. What I don't want to do is
just get out se seed or Big tens. That'd be
annoying because when will the Big twelve get a second
team in? And if an eleven and one team does
not get in, like, come on, obviously you just like
you said, you just played the schedule in front of you.
I didn't have you know, another Texas Tech or another
Utah wasn't as highly ranked as they are now Winbo
played them, which, by the way, Tangent, can you imagine
if that game was this week? That is its right,
full and proper play. And I am spitting mad this
week that we don't have that game on Saturday. That
would have been epic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, there's pros and cons to having it
this week. It would have been epic, There's no doubt
about it. So much on the line. It would have
been pretty cool. I mean, all eyes with all eyes
be on BYU in Utah right now in the Big twelve.
Do you think they get College Game Day? Do you
think they get Big Newton kickoff again? If that's the
scenario on rivalry week, Big.
Speaker 5: Newton loves them some Ohio State Michigan. So no, But
where's game Dag going this week? I haven't even noticed.
I don't know if it would have, but it would
have been fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's the I almost feel like your
mark always the monetizer, the outside the box, trying to
create monetization.
Speaker 3: Like he's sitting there.
Speaker 2: Thinking, well, we can get more viewership at this spot
and more money at this spot if we highlight by
Utah in this week rather than competing with all the
other rowery games.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: College Game Day, by the way, is at the same
same spot is Big Nude.
Speaker 5: Oh they're going head to head night. Yeah, I feel
you on the uh let's maximize the moment kind of thing,
but not at the sake of the tradition of what
I think, like Bo and Utah, I don't agree on
a lot. I think they'd agree that they'd rather play
it this week. It's one of the few things that
I think both fan bases are like, yeah, that would
have been sweet, and they wouldn't be ranked the same.
You know, they might be back a little bit just
because that win has helped voy you and one now.
But I just miss it. Man, growing up it was
fun to know, okay, and then November this is this
is what we're doing. But alas boy has a very
winnable game. Obviously in UCF they've only scored twenty eight
points once since like Game four. Uh, you know, you
get to twenty eight, you probably win. So it's not
about style points. I thought style points might affect a
committee in some way. Absolutely not. I don't think it
matters at all, Like in BOI one by one or
they won by twenty eight. I don't think it influences anything.
That the job is win and then go to Arlington
and play a play a sixty minute game in which
you can turn yourself into the playoffs, and then if
there's a little bit of casts, then there's a chance
that you could climb to an eight seed and host one.
Alavell Edward Stadium. I'm not banking on that, but just
get in and validate one of these two seasons. Like
BOI cannot go eleven plus wins twice been and not
have a playoff to show for it. They never got
into the New Year six, they never got into the BPS.
Now b always in a powerful league. We need a
validating season and this needs to be at Bulway's right there.
How many times are they gonna do this? Have this
kind of season? This is special? It doesn't It's hard
to maintain and sustain. Buoy is certainly in a great trajectory,
but I need that validation for Boa football in one
of these years. We've we've stared at do it and
turned around and looked at all kinds of other schools
that Utah of course before they got in the Pac twelve.
And then obviously we'd love to go. We'd love to
lose to rose Balls too, But he only needs to
have something to attach to the season not named pop
darts bull.
Speaker 2: Uh And hey we love pop tarts balls. We love Orlando,
no doubt about it.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Who who uh? Who's most likely to lose in front
of b YU? Right? You hope?
Speaker 2: And Oklahoma loses to l s U. They're gonna be
at home. Notre Dame is taking on Stanford. It's at Stanford.
By the way, Stanford won this past week, they beat
Cal They may be trending in the right direction. Olive
Auburn in uh in the Iron Bowl that's at Auburn.
Speaker 3: That could be a big one.
Speaker 2: Auburn has been very close to winning football games.
Speaker 3: All season long.
Speaker 2: Uh, they've they've kept it within one score, it seems
in all of their losses.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Look, you got Texas Tech on the road versus West Virginia.
Rich Rod could maybe pull a rabbit if he's had
Ole Miss I believe.
Speaker 3: Takes on Do they take on Misissippi State? I think?
Speaker 2: And then Oregon takes on Washington at Washington.
Speaker 3: Shoot.
Speaker 2: Georgia could lose to Georgia Tech. I don't know how
much that meets. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe Georgia
Tech shocks Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech just lost the pin, right,
Georgia Tech, I know, But Georgie Tech lost the pit.
And if they beat Georgia, maybe they bounce Georgia. No,
that's not gonna happen. But who's the most likely to lose.
Speaker 5: If Georgia got a second loss, that's still in. There's
no way they're out. I think Washington against Oregon is
a good one. Like you mentioned, I like Mississippi State's
chances mainly because Ole miss is just stressing the freak
out over what Lane Kiffin's gonna do, whether he's gonna
go to LSU Florida or stay. I think it's super
low that he stays right like he's not an Oxford
guy for an extended period of time, I wouldn't think.
So there's the chance is a little bit of chaos. No,
Like a couple of weeks ago, I was hoping Notre
Dame will lose one. Because lost Notre Dame, you don't
have a ton of I know it's Notre Dame, but
that was one where they could have gone out of
the way, Oregon could have slid behind with the USC win.
That didn't happen. So there's an opportunity for a little
bit of chaos. And frankly, if you want to goes
in at at eleventh next week, again, I'm thinking it's
you have to win or you're not going to get in.
So let's holl for some chaos. But it's going to
be sweaty on Flection Sunday if you don't win the
big world title.
Speaker 3: Oh so sweaty.
Speaker 2: Reminds me of a Saturday Night Live skit from my childhood,
you know, on the Sweaty the sweaty balls.
Speaker 5: Oh really you had to go there?
Speaker 3: Hey, I just you asked. I gave it up to
the you asked for.
Speaker 2: The you mean swetty oh man, habitual line stepping.
Speaker 3: That's what I do best.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Well, jerem a couple of last things before we let
you go. This Voa basketball team, let's talk about that.
Speaker 2: From a dominant victory at the Delta Center over Wisconsin,
uh and then watching U COD they lost to U
of A. We all know U of A is a
good squad. They lost by I think a bucket. They
had two guys that they were down. Well, b what
you said, two guys down as well? You just wonder like,
if Bwi's at full strength, man, how good can this
team be? Are you feeling the Final four vibe with
his squad?
Speaker 5: Well, we saw how good they could play. So you
see the high end. The high end was Wisconsin, I mean,
and it was it was wild what BOI did against
a quality team. That's the team they barely beat in
the second round. I know there's some piece of gone
John Tanjay notably he scored thirty seven in Denver. But
man BYU's defense with more impressive than the offense to me,
because they held a top ten offense Wisconsin to seventy
and they were points, you know, nine to eight. I
think points per possession, Boy was one point three. Those
are winning numbers and by us length and athleticism, Wisconsin problems.
They knocked down breeze. Richie Sanders went on, I think
the role players are getting comfortable. Dawson Bakers scored ten
plus and three of the last five. He's settled in
and fit nicely in the starting lineup because Boy's got
to deal with life without Canard Davis. They'll just tell
us when he's able to play. If he's able to play, right,
we just you just move on and then it's a
bonus if he's there. I think at this point AJ
gets in foul trouble. What's boy going to do without
a start? They go plus seven because Rob right the
third goes for a double double, Richie goes off adem
Boob's getting remount these Euro stepping in in in the
in transition and donkey, I mean it was it was good.
I think Boi's figuring some things out together. And that
was probably the high right in gymnastics, to throw out
the high and the low, and that's what you kind
of are. I think what we've seen is no real
low for Boy quite yet. Uh, they've played well and
kind of who Boy was against yukonan in the game
and against Villa Melva. That's kind of who they are.
And it's a very good team. You could you could
see right if you played and lead a game against
the yukon they can hang. If they play in a
kind of a Sweet fifteen kind of game against Wisconsin,
they can win that game. We knew the future was bright,
but it's just nice to see that they are probably
ahead of schedule in terms of how they're coming together
and figuring things out. It doesn't mean they won't stub
their toast skill. They'll lose some more games because they're
going to play a tough schedule here. Hopefully they win
this week, but you got Clemson and Madison Square Garden
coming up. You got all kinds of fun ones this
week with Miami on Thanksgiving, So let's go, man. It's
so fun to watch Boy's perform at a high level.
And every night scouts are watching an NBA. People in
the whole country is watching this joy team mainly because
of AJ. But it's a time for Richie to sneak
into the second round.
Speaker 2: Right next June, let's go Jerem Jordan. Make sure you're
following Jerem on X. Make sure you watch them on
b YU TV. Nobody does it better Jerem. Appreciate you
hopping off for a little Cougar beat. Thanks for catching
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