Speaker 1: Listening to Cougar Sports and it's time for a Cougar Byte.
I Ben Crittle breaks down the latest sound bites from
Cougar Athletics.
Speaker 2: Wow here on.
Speaker 1: One O three nine at ninety eight three ESPN, The Fan.
Speaker 3: Welcome back Cougar Sports Win at three nine ninety eight
point three ESPN The Fan up. They put in broadcasting
from our Vanderwill Studios, Bantererwealth dot Com get on a
free q and a no obligation to invest QNA with
our tax more wealth Advisors certify financial planners. Nobody does
it better than Bander Wealth and he's stopped a little
Cougar By gotta get into all the sound bites from
the national media commenting on the Big twelve championship.
Speaker 4: What are they picking and why are they picking it?
Speaker 5: BYU versus Texas Tech, as I've mentioned many times, by
you a dog in this game twelve and a half
points and ESPN adalytically giving them about a thirty three
percent chance of victory. But By he's looking to play
spoiler and mark their territory and become a Big twelve
champion as well as a college football playoff bid Steeler
Yeah bid earner ladies and gentlemen, bid earner people calling
them a big steeler. It's ridiculous, ridiculous. That's against the
honor code. It's against the honor crow. This segment's gonna
be brought to you by Big OD Tires in American Fork.
Love me some Ryan Eldridge looking for an honest, hard working,
cost transparent mechanic who's a huge BYU fan. He wants
to earn your business today, whether it's tires, whether it's
just an oil chains or full service mechanic where you need,
you need a lift, you need you know, maybe uh,
you know, it's just some service done on your vehicle.
Hit it, Hit them up, make an appointment, set it
up and let them know I sent you request. Require
the VP products, VP service, VP discounts when you head
in to Big O' Tires in American Fork today. Full
service mechanic that wants to earn your business today. All right,
let's start off with a few sound bites, these cougar
bytes brought to you by Big O Tires in American
Fork ap Which one do we want to start with?
Speaker 4: Which one we want to do that? Let's do the BYU.
Speaker 5: Versus Texas Tech Road to the twenty twenty five We're
Jones Big Twelve Football Championships.
Speaker 6: Getting off of the Bostont Arlington, Texas for the Big twelve
Championship game.
Speaker 2: What would that mean to you personal.
Speaker 7: Ads in the program as a whole.
Speaker 8: I don't think everything's a big enough word.
Speaker 7: Our team is e colllective, has a chance to go
in our conference, something that people can only dream of us.
But we know how hard we work as a program,
or the coaches know Hall will work everybody inside the
bed and know how hard we work.
Speaker 2: So the meat up de summer seeks just listened.
Speaker 7: Last year we kind of fell short, went eleven and two,
which just barely missed the playoffs, and it's like this
year it just makes us more hungry.
Speaker 9: Lubbock deserves championships to be brought home. The amount of
fans that we have that pour into this university and
all the donors, all the people that make the ball roll.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, Lovely deserves it. And I want to
be the guy.
Speaker 9: Uh that's the team captain that this is the guy
that's leading to the Texas type recrators to the Big
twelve Championship, can go win.
Speaker 10: Just missing out last year definitely a dagger, and we
like to take the season one game at a time,
and I think the offseason that we have and you know,
if we had that mindset of just thinking it one
game at a time, I think the results to take
care of himself would be on the bus coming into
the Big twelve Championship. And I'm excited for that moment
when it happens.
Speaker 8: I think for the program and to take that next step.
Speaker 11: It's really important that we're playing in the Big Pot
Championship game.
Speaker 12: We were in a pretty good position last year and I
just got to get some things done along the way
to the university.
Speaker 3: It'll mean a lot just knowing we haven't had that.
Speaker 7: Getting all the way to the Big Tele Championship be
a big accomplishment for us. And like even last year,
I knew we could have done it. It is just
taking the part little things and just really focusing we
could get there and then hopefully some national championship.
Speaker 5: Oh all right, comments from Texas Tech players Texas Tech coaches,
BYU players, BYU coaches.
Speaker 4: You heard a theme there, Okay.
Speaker 5: For BYU side of things, it's hey, we feel like
we fell short last year. You know, the certain amount
of disrespect. Right, we have to prove everybody wrong, blue collar,
gritty resilience that they're just glad to have another opportunity
in Arlington, to prove themselves and to earn their chance
to be a college football playoff contender.
Speaker 4: Texas Tech has all the pressure on them.
Speaker 5: Texas Tech is the hype train, Texas Tech is the talent.
Texas Tech has the black gold twenty eight million dollar
nil roster. The pressure this time around is on Tech,
not on BYU, And I think that means something.
Speaker 4: Ap your thoughts, well.
Speaker 8: I think it absolutely means something because last time we
saw how the pressure got to BYU. The pressure was
not on Texas Tech there, in my opinion, I think
it was on b Yu. B Yu came in with
the hype. They were the number seven team in the country,
They had the praise behind him. They had that true
freshman QB that told everyone he was that expletive. I
think that this time BYU gets to play free, obviously
with the with the chip on their shoulder, knowing they
need to win. But the pressure is on Tech because
Tech knows they should win. They they they beat BYU
by three scores, they have to follow that up, they
have to be just as impressive. I think that you know,
BYU's bought in. I think this has been an unbelievable
week for them in terms of in terms of momentum
just across the program, and I think that they feel
that going in.
Speaker 5: Let's get to the next sound bite here in this
Cougar Byte segment brought to you by Big O' Tires
in American Fork. Looking for an autist, hard working constrance
para mechanic who's also a Big Bay fake contact Ryan
Eldridge today in American Fork.
Speaker 4: Let's get into.
Speaker 5: Josh Pate and busting with the boys as they break
down the Big twelve Championship game.
Speaker 11: American primeval BYU kept their coach versus Texas Tech, who
want Josh paid to be the Commission of college football.
Texas Tech favored by a one hundred and twelve according
to my sheet. Do you guys have the same thing?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: Oh, it probably means twelve and a half.
Speaker 11: Now favored by one hundred and twelve according to the sheet.
Speaker 13: So Texas Tech favored by twelve and a half tory
minus one twelve oof oof, Yeah, twelve and a half?
Speaker 2: Why the plus one.
Speaker 11: Got you and then the total points that they game
was forty nine and a half American primeval at all
as comes back to that this team has been on
our show more than I think any of us expected.
Speaker 2: We are a b YU show.
Speaker 11: We have become a BYU show. Now I'm not going
as far as Crumbled Cookie.
Speaker 14: Yeah, we grossly mischaracterize everything about the program, everything about
the culture, everything about the church.
Speaker 2: But you know we.
Speaker 11: Are Yeah, we are doing nothing but church nasty work
on that and I'm gonna continue to do it. Jordan Guire,
that high flying offense, that incredible defense. Where is that Rodriguez?
The Linebasch, Jacob, why is that the Heisman race?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take that.
Speaker 11: I'll take them minus twelve and a half. This is
going to be a three touchdown blowout when this is putting.
This is the before. Like when I was at Michigan
the first couple of years with Rich Rodriguez. Every Friday night,
we do our team meetings, we have our meal, we
have clam Chatterer to have this historic like famous claim
chatt that all the players will come back to get
You can only get it when you're a player at
the campus in then after that we would sit and
watch a movie. It'd be Gladiator, Friend and I had
lights those types of things before this game. Texas Tech
is playing the entire series of American Primeval and they
win this game by twenty.
Speaker 14: Eight or they're terrified and no, they don't even show
up two options.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna take the one where they bow up by
You got a better shot this time around?
Speaker 14: Could we see some more chaos? Model loves Brigham Young.
I have no idea why. I have no idea why.
Speaker 13: Where's the model out on BYU?
Speaker 14: It has Texas Tech winning by eight like it thinks
it's a huge cover probability edge.
Speaker 2: For Brigham Young.
Speaker 11: This is one that you look at and you're like, oh,
I bet this game.
Speaker 14: I wouldn't. Oh, I don't agree with the model. That
means I just don't bet it.
Speaker 13: Okay, swing like that. That's like ra me noudle express.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be how do you flip?
Speaker 14: So I Brigham Young's gotta flip something that happened the
first time around. They had sixty rushing yards total. First
time around, they were minus three turnovers. Brigham Young's gotta
run the ball. They got to win turnover battle. That's
how they've done it all year. I do think they're
playing their best ball. Like I really really respect what
they did to Utah, but what they did to Cincinnati
was more impressive. What they did the TCU at home,
to me was more impressive.
Speaker 13: And they just got incredible news. They sure didn't reaction
when their coaches stay in.
Speaker 14: So you got to ride that revenge wave. You got
to ride the our coaches staying wave.
Speaker 13: Boys, we win, we're in.
Speaker 2: You can't.
Speaker 14: So these are the paper poppers Texas Tech. In the
first half, they're top three points per game first half,
top two pass yards per game first half, number one
in explosive passes in the first half. They did that
against them last time too. But the thing about it
is for everyone who tries to find a way for
Brigham Young to win this game, like, oh man, if
they just even up the turnover battle, Texas Tech settled
for five field goals in this thing too, Three of
them were inside the red zone. So I look at
twenty nine to seven the first time around. I al
was at that game, just not a close game, not
really a competitive game. But I was thinking to myself
leaving this actually could have been so much worse. So
for every progression to the mean that you expect from
Brigham Young, there's also still a little catapult opportunity for
Texas Tech to play their best ball.
Speaker 2: They didn't even play their best.
Speaker 14: Ball that day. I haven't I don't know what the
model seue. So I'm gonna take Texas Tech. I'll actually
lay the points with.
Speaker 13: The blessing of the Church. I'm gonna go by wow,
really yes, with the blessing.
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, gracious, all right, Ap, I'll let you
start this one off.
Speaker 4: I'll bring up the caboose. I'm busting with.
Speaker 5: The boys Pate and uh and and oh my gosh,
that was good man Will Compton all of a sudden
becoming a BYU fan. Right with the blessing of the Church,
what do you got?
Speaker 14: Well?
Speaker 8: First off, the point total forty nine and a half.
But Texas Tech favored by one hundred and twelve. Is
is quite the line. I'm not sure where to bet
there anyways, But when Josh Pate was saying there at
the end, it's it's true, it could have been a
lot worse. Five field goals is a lot of field goals.
But when he's saying, like, any regression to the mean
for BYU, that's a normality. For Texas Tech. They're not
great in red zone offense. If I remember correctly, b
YU is great in red zone defense. And so I
think the key for BYU is to is to make
them settle for field goals, because that's what Texas Tech
does a lot of the time. If BAU can be
stingy in the red zone again and just have an
offense and have a special teams, I think it's much
more likely that happens than Texas Tech scores seven times.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's uh, this is the thing, right, you're looking
at this and look they're looking at spreads, right, they're
looking at margin of victory, They're looking at some of
the statistical analysis. What what Josh Pate says in this
is is accurate, meaning the algorithm, the formula, right, the
prognostication he like what he's leaning on or what he's
not leaning on. It says that by is gonna cover
and this is gonna be a much closer game than
it is the first go round.
Speaker 4: Why because Byukay.
Speaker 5: Has been playing their best ball since that loss. Even
up to that point, they've been playing good ball, but
they were playing their best ball. Remember Colade, time and
time again, we haven't even played.
Speaker 4: Our best ball yet. We haven't even played our best ball.
Speaker 5: Will be always been playing their best ball since they
lost their Tech, they played their worst ball.
Speaker 4: For literally nothing. The only thing that went right was
red zone defense. That's it.
Speaker 5: The only thing that went right for BYU was red
zone defense.
Speaker 4: That's it. Ye, okay, So you have to.
Speaker 5: Believe that something else is gonna go right for him
this time and that they're gonna be similarly good on defense,
because that defense has been extremely good since the Tech game.
Thirteen points, fourteen points, and twenty one points they've given up,
and that first quarter was a bit of an anomaly.
I think you gotta realize that first quarter they started
a bunch of backups on the defense.
Speaker 8: Didn't they start four seniors in the Yeah, in the
sad area that don't.
Speaker 4: They're not your true starters. They're not your true starters.
So so like, I don't know, I'm not trying to
blame those guys. They're rotating.
Speaker 5: They play, they play, they they they they are players
on this team that get reps. But you didn't have
your first team defense out there. Okay, you just didn't
have your guys out there, your dudes, your dogs. So
something's gonna go BYU's way this game, and at least
they're gonna cover. I brought up the spread, b YU
against the spread Vegas versus Vegas, and they're they're they're
a top six team in the country. Guys, they're they're
they're they're winning versus the spread. So that's that means
it's gonna be a closer game. And if BYU is
in a game late one score game, anything is possible.
B YU shown time and time again in the fourth
quarter how they find a way to have that oblong
shaped ball bounce their way.
Speaker 8: They've been really good in the fourth quarter. In fact,
I do want to I have a question for you, Ben.
Let's say the game is close in the fourth quarter,
do we still trust, Like, is there any worry among
cougarnation about Will Farren kicking a game winning field goal?
Speaker 5: That's a good question. Will Farron is one of the
best kickers that BYU has had from an accuracy standpoint. Yeah,
I mean he knocks it through the uprights. I want
to say, like eighty three eighty five percent of the
time with I can't remember what the minimum threshold would
be for attempts, but I mean he's good.
Speaker 4: In his career. He's great in his career. He's eighty two, sorry,
eighty two percent.
Speaker 5: So in twenty twenty three he hit eleven to fourteen
field goals, seventy eight point six. In twenty twenty four
he was elite, he was eighty eight point nine, and
this year he's seventy eight point six. So he's ten
of ten between twenty to twenty nine yards, six of
six between thirty and thirty nine, the forty to forty
nine yards two of six, but fifty plus he's four
of six, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So so once you.
Speaker 8: Hit forty or longer, you're yeah, fifty yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And those are tough kicks obviously, but yeah, forty en,
he's he's he's perfect.
Speaker 4: He's almost perfect on his career.
Speaker 5: He's only in this one field goal between thirty and
thirty nine, so forty going in, he's twenty one of twenty.
Speaker 4: Two on his career. He's fourteen of twenty on his career.
Speaker 5: Between forty and forty nine, he's eighteen or he's eight
of thirteen at fifty plus. So, I mean, he's one
of the best kickers that Ba's ever had. And you
want to believe in a indoor environment, okay, Texas, you know,
climate controlled, Like he's not walking into the stadium and
he's freezing cold, and he's trying to warm up, and
he's got a little space eater over there keeping.
Speaker 4: His little toesies little boots. He's warm.
Speaker 5: Like he's gonna be fine as far as want his
His toes shouldn't be like numb, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Like he's gonna be good. He should be good.
Speaker 5: So I'm expecting him to be able to knock it
through the uprights. I expect him not to have a
little bit of the sphincter, the sphincter clinch right, Can
I sphincter clinching?
Speaker 8: Can I be a little honest here? Yes, I'm a
little nervous, all right, I'm a little nervous. Like I'm
not I'm not panicking. Let's not let's not throw that out.
I'm not in an absolute panic where I'm like, oh,
he's gonna miss. But I do have that little thing
in the back of my head that's like, Okay, we
had really good Weather last Saturday and he was two
of four. I'm I'm a little nervous. I'm not gonna lie.
If it's more than forty, I'll feel good, but I
won't feel great. If that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well I get it.
Speaker 5: You know, remember when Will first got the job and
he transferred in. He's missing a lot of kicks, a
lot of doubters. Maybe we need to start doubting Will.
Maybe we need to put a little chip on his shoulder,
you know what I mean, Like I know it, That's
what I'm doing.
Speaker 4: I don't believe in Will.
Speaker 8: We're gonna stop calling him big game Bill. Yeah, we're
gonna call him Fairweather farn until he knocks it through
for the game winner against for the Big Twelve Championship.
Speaker 4: I don't believe in you, Will.
Speaker 5: I don't care about your eighty two point six career
field goal percentage rate. I don't care fair Weather, fair
Weather farn O, eh.
Speaker 4: Double hikey six. Hey.
Speaker 5: Let's get into a couple other prognostications. JD Pickle of
on three picks the Big Twelve Championship. JD has not
been too friendly to be Yu. I don't think he's
ever picked the way to win any games. In fact,
now I'm kidding, he's picked somebod. He's always been a
bit of a hater. Let's see what JD of on
three JD Picklebon three says about this Big twelve Championship.
Speaker 2: Game, The Big twelve Title Game.
Speaker 6: Man Jerry World, eleven AM Local on ABC, having been
to this game as a fan.
Speaker 8: This all right, it's not going through.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, technical difficulties, technical difficulties.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to go to the Big full title game.
Speaker 4: Man. We ready, No, We're back. You got me? Hello,
we live.
Speaker 2: The Big full title game.
Speaker 4: Man, you got me?
Speaker 2: The Big four Title Game.
Speaker 6: Man, Jerry World, eleven AM Local on ABC, having been
to this game as a fan. This game being the
first game of rivals of Not Roberts Saturday Conference Title Saturday,
is just fun. Like you're almost you're you're the first
piece of the puzzle to go into the college football
playoff pich or someone's gonna punch their ticket. Definitively, it
might be b Why you I think Attack Tech loses,
They're still probably in there. According to BETMGM thirteen and
a half point favorite, favoring the Red Raiders, now these
teams played in the early parts of November twenty nine
to seven for Texas Tech and love it because how
that whole thing went. So, if you're BYU what I
just had a second ago, I don't know if you
are in.
Speaker 2: The college football Playoff. If you lose this game, you
might be.
Speaker 6: But here's the thing I wouldn't want to find out,
Like remove all doubt Clonie sa Taki and the boys,
go punch your ticket, go win the Big twelve and
let everyone else figure out how the at large BID's
gonna shake out and who gets in wagh.
Speaker 2: And what happens with Notre Dame.
Speaker 6: Might I just win your conference BYU, get via the
second one of this uh this head to head and find.
Speaker 2: A way to just punch your ticket definitively.
Speaker 6: Now, for Texas Tech, I think, like I just said,
I think you're in. I think you're in even if
you lose this game. I think most people that watch
football watch Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: And say, yeah, top twelve team in America.
Speaker 6: However, I think you are also a little bit now
fighting the narrative of everything that comes with the Big
twelve right now, And I'm not telling you that's valid.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying it's reality. And so if you.
Speaker 6: Lose to BYU, a lot of people will revisit Texas
Tech and well how good are they actually and well
what can they.
Speaker 2: Actually be in the context of this tournament.
Speaker 6: Again, I still think you're in, but I wonder what
it would do to your seating if you lost this
game to BYU, either here nor there. It's not complex
for BYU. Man, you gotta build on the football. It's
who you are.
Speaker 2: You're a fifty six percent run the ball team.
Speaker 6: Everything that you want to do is downstream of establishing
something on the ground. Now, okay, now we could talk
about all the positives of what would happen if you
can run the football and explosive plays happen and you
get Bachmar comfortable. Let's let's be a little bit doomsday
this year, though, What if b why you can't run
the football like what happened round one of this game,
where you had sixty seven yards rushing as a team, Well,
at that point you're not having the shot plays downfield.
Speaker 2: More than likely, if you're probably not living.
Speaker 6: In ideal third down situations, you're letting that Texas Tech
Front seven absolutely bear Bachmeyer on third down, the game
get out of hand very quickly if you can't establish
something on the ground. I like bar Bachmeyer. I like
that he says he's a healthy two to sixty if
that's the case. But I don't like that when you
have to drop back and try to throw you away
back into the game against this Taxas Tech defense man,
I don't love it at all. Can you control the
game flow a little bit, BYU? So I don't need
you to blow Texas Tech out again. All we're trying
to do here is find a way to win the
football game with a two touchdown spread against US. Can
you slow the game down, make Baron Morton and the
boys watch for the Taxa Tech offense and control the
line of scrimmage when it comes in time of possession.
Speaker 2: That's all I'm looking for here for BYU.
Speaker 6: Now, I say that I also look at the potential
for this game flow when it comes to Texas Tech
and their ability to score if this game is played
in the thirties. I don't love that for BYU. I
think that favors Texas Tech on every single level. And
with that being said, I also don't think that BYU
is going to do a great job hanging with the
skill players of Texas Tech. Going back to that first
game again, explosive plays.
Speaker 2: I think you take with.
Speaker 6: A grain of salt because there's so many different variables
that go into it.
Speaker 2: Was it BYU.
Speaker 6: Had a bad matchup on defense they found themselves in
them that game. Is it busted coverage, is it broken
tackles that There's so many things you couldna sign it to.
But when you see the frequency of explosive plays that
Texas Tech had through the air, thirty nine, thirty seven,
twenty five yards, twenty four yards, eighteen yards, those were
all in one game.
Speaker 2: For Texas teching is BYU. So maybe BYU.
Speaker 6: Bosses up a little bit and uses that film to
improve their strategy and come out with a different scheme
to try and confuse Baron Morton.
Speaker 2: But like y'all to be real, I.
Speaker 6: Still don't like that matchup for BYU, so we gotta
fix that. But I just want to make sure this
set out loud before the game even happens. I don't
like that for BYU. I think that's a big reason
why you see the spread favoring Texas Tech by right
around two touchdowns all right now, y'all see the iron man,
sure you have. I need Jarvis to be to be
a factor here for bear Backmeyer, like we got to
help bear Bachmeyer out here, y'all. I just told you
I don't love the drop back passing game here for BYU.
Speaker 2: Straight up.
Speaker 6: I don't love the idea of just running the football
and having that be the only.
Speaker 2: Way of attack for BYU in the spot.
Speaker 6: If I'm a BYU, I need the move the pocket
kind of game plan for bear Bachmeyer to get him
out on the perimeter, give him a chance to protect
himself and run away from that front seven.
Speaker 2: For Texas Tech, I need the ball out quick.
Speaker 6: I need quarterback run maybe settle him in and also
kind of keep Texas Tech on their heels. I need
us to do something BYU, going back to this idea,
you need to run the football and just create some
settled situations.
Speaker 2: For bar Backmeyer.
Speaker 6: I need us to do something here to create livable
third and down or third down and distance. Because the
thing with BYU is I actually like a lot of
their skill players like Chase Roberts is a dude, Parker
Kingston dude that they have explosive playmakers on the perimeter.
But the reality is, if you're not living in a
third and we can do whatever we want to do here,
we can call run or pass. It's hard to really
maximize that with how good this Texas Tech defense is,
because if I'm not worried about you running the football,
guess what, I'm not honoring you running the football.
Speaker 2: That's just the reality.
Speaker 6: Like if I don't have if we're living in third
and seven plus, I can sit back, I can just
play the pass.
Speaker 2: We can live that way.
Speaker 6: And so when that happens, now I don't get to
maximize Kingston and Roberts. That's a big reason why d
why you lost the game last time. They were three
of fourteen on third down. It's not gonna cut it.
It's not gonna cut it. So going back to what
I was saying, you have to be able to find
something on the ground to make Texas Tech on the
run game to then be able to maximize your skilled
players on the.
Speaker 2: Property, which again I think are pretty good.
Speaker 6: It's just a matter of can you get to situations
down in distance where you're able to get them to the.
Speaker 2: Football and allow them to impact the game.
Speaker 6: Taxas Tech, I'm not gonna excuse what happened the last
time yall play when.
Speaker 2: It came to taking field goals?
Speaker 6: Man, how many times did Texas Tech get the football
in a favorable situation and just get three?
Speaker 2: Drove the red zone multiple times? Got three?
Speaker 6: Here's the thing about taking field goals over touchdowns. You're
just asking for bad things to happen. You're just asking
for bad things to happen. Like at a certain point,
it's like I have a lot of friends that for
whatever reason don't lock their car and leave their keys
in their car. It's like, Okay, then you didn't get
your car stolen tonight, But what about the next day?
And then at a certain point, you're going to get
got if you're only taking three and not getting into
the end Zonecause if you if you're getting seven against
this team, Okay, we're gonna have a chance now with
that defensive tax attack has. If you're able to play
from a lead, it's gonna be a good time in
Jerry World on Saturday. It will be believe you mean,
but if you're taking three, you could leave the back
door open for bear Bachmeyer. I told you about the
skill players that I like. For you, what you give
them a chance to get in rhythm and to climb.
Speaker 2: Back into this game.
Speaker 6: But to tell you what, with clients talky being the
head coach b way, he's not gonna quit.
Speaker 2: They don't care where the spread is. They don't care
where the game is played, they don't care where the
stakes are. They don't care where you're ranked. Here's the
thing too, I don't think they I don't think they
care what happened last time? Does b Yu.
Speaker 6: I think he's going to show with bad intentions and
they'll try to force the issue. So what's our pick
in this game? I think bay is gonna be scrappy.
I think bear Bachmeyer will be improved from that first
performance he had against Taxas Tech. I think there will
be and effort to be more creative offensively for BYU.
But with all that being said, I still think that
BYU's path to a win requires too many variables to
fall into their favor. I think it would require some
turnovers from Texas Tech. I think it would require BYU
going from three turnovers the first time to zero turnovers
in this game. I think it would require BYU having
a much better running performance than what they had in
Lubbock that first time around a lot more than six
seven yards for the game. That's the first part of this.
It also, I think requires Texas Tech stalling out. So
you see where I'm going with this. There's too many
things I'm asking to happen in this game for BYU
to get it done. Therefore, I'll take Texas Tech to win.
I'll take Texas Tech to cover final score. In jeral world,
Texas Tech, you're big twelve champs, thirty one seventeen, and
Texas Tech may now be in a position to have
a buy in the first round of the college football playoff,
and y'all if that happens, I think they deserve it.
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
Speaker 5: Bo Bo.
Speaker 4: Who you really know.
Speaker 5: BYU's covering. At worst, BYU's covering. Okay, it's twelve and
a half. I'm telling you right now, take it to
the bank.
Speaker 4: BYU's covering.
Speaker 5: What happened in Loboc chill not, will not, could not
happen again. Kay, Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same spot.
Speaker 8: What happens in Lubbock stays in Lubbock, and we're playing now.
Speaker 4: Lubbock exactly exactly. JD. Suck An egg. Suck an egg,
pal suck an egg not happening.
Speaker 5: That's your Cougar Bytes of the day, brought to you
by our good friends over at Big O' Tires in
American fork looking for an honest started working const transparent
mechanic who's also a big bou fan. Contact my guy
Ryan Eldridge and look, guys, we got to support all
of our sponsors. We can't do our show without our sponsors,
so please support them today and also get back. Uh
tis the season to be giving, because we have been
given much, we two must give. ESPN, the fan of
the Rocky Mountain Chevy dealers, invite you to help those
at the road home this holiday season with much needed food,
nonperishable food items, blankets, coats, shoes, hats and gloves. Drop
off any donations at any Rocky Mountain Chevy dealer or
visit espndefan dot com for dealer locations. Spread the warmth
and help others find their way home. Find their way home, guys,
find their way home. We'll go to break. We'll be
back with Dewey Gray coming up next. This is Cougar
Sports on one O three nine ninety eight point three ESPN.
Speaker 2: There for Keeping up with the Cougars.
Speaker 1: Brought to you by Odion Men's Wear, proudly outfitting young professionals,
young adults, boys and missionaries across the globe with quality
suits and apparel. Find a location near you or odeonmenswear
dot com.
Speaker 4: Welcome back Cougar Sports.
Speaker 5: One of three nine ninety eight point three ESPN the
fandom then Cridal broadcast from our Banterwill Studios, Banderwealth dot Com.
Get on a free Q and A no obligation to
invest Q and A with our tax smart wealth Advisors.
They're gonna save you money on your taxes at the
end of the year and help you to invest.
Speaker 4: The right way.
Speaker 5: This time for a little keeping up with the Coogan's
GONN Welcome to a former BA You rate to talk
some BAU football preview the BAU Texas Tech game and
why this time in Texas it's gonna be different. What
happens in Lubwick stays in Lubbock, What happens in Arlington.
Like the last time boas in Arlington, Bulier got the
dub over Oklahoma and Jerry's World one of the best
wins in the modern era, maybe one of the best
wins in BA football history. Hopefully that happens again this time.
Rop It's gonna be brought to you by This segment's
gonna be brought to you by Odion Men's Where Odeon
Menswear dot Com they have a new sports performance suit.
Speaker 4: It's an at leisure suit.
Speaker 5: It's called the Elevate Suit, range of motion, unlike any
other super comfortable. I don't want to get out of
my suit after church. I can look good, feel good,
get out there in the world and do good.
Speaker 4: And I love Odeon Men's Where.
Speaker 5: Whether it's for business, for church, or if you got
a missionary within the walls of your home. Head on
over to odeonmanswear dot com Critle fifteen for fifteen percent off,
or check out all the deals in their store.
Speaker 4: Let's get out to the hotline. Welcome in. One of my.
Speaker 5: Favorite great guests on The Life Former BYU Great NFL
VET pastor Dewey Gray.
Speaker 4: What's up, Pastor? How are you?
Speaker 12: I'm doing great? My friend? How are you doing?
Speaker 4: I'm doing fantastic?
Speaker 5: Also creator of Cougar's on top AI song It hit Hard.
Speaker 4: We played it earlier today, do we?
Speaker 12: Oh Man? Let me say they should have never let
me discover ai creation songs. I've been making songs about
my kids, my wife. It has been a blast. But
on a serious note, I just thought that that would
be something fun to do, and I listened to it
a few times. I was like, man, this thing slaps.
Let me send it to Ben and I send it
to some other people. They're like, this is good. So yeah,
I'm I'm just having a little fun. I'm excited about
the game tomorrow. I'm super proud of my school. I
think from outbidding Penn State to keep Kialani, the momentum
with recruiting, I can never remember a time that BYU
and a recruiting class had four four stars. Usually it
would take US five recruiting or eight four stars. Usually
it would take like four recruiting cycles to have eight
four star players. Now we got eight four star players
in one class and it's number twenty one in the country.
So the momentum is certainly behind BYU football. It's really exciting.
Speaker 5: It's you know, look, we've had a lot of discussions
on this show over the years about talent, scheme, culture,
the building blocks of great football plague, great football programs,
and it's tremendous to see what where BYU is at
right now, knocking on the door on.
Speaker 4: The cusp of elite football.
Speaker 5: Right and we've had years where BYU has played some
really great football, maybe even argue to be elite football.
Speaker 4: But you know, you look back at.
Speaker 5: Your era, my era that you know, it's hard to
create consistency year over year of great to elite football.
Killone's doing something special, but he's doing it with support
the help of many right now, including the university finally
investing in their program.
Speaker 12: Absolutely, in today's modern football, you have to make a
financial investment. You have to have top tier coaches, top
tier facilities, top tier in IL And you know too,
I don't I don't like to compare errors because number one,
it's really impossible. Number two, it's not fair. I'll say this.
You know, my era, your era. Plan in the Whack
is not the same thing as playing in the Big twelve.
The level of competition that the current VYU team is
facing as much higher than the level of competition that
we faced in the Western Athletic Conference. And you know
that is a sign and progress of the nature of
our football program. And so that's that's really, really exciting,
and I think we have some incredible momentum catapulting us
into the game against an absolute stacked Texas Tech team.
Three of their defensive linemen were first team All Big Twelve.
That's incredible. They had the defensive player of the Year
in Rodriguez. We know what they can do on offense,
we know what they can know special teams. I mean,
they spent twenty eight million dollars in il to have
an incredible roster, and they've had an incredible year. But
I think Saturday is gonna be different.
Speaker 4: Why will it be different? Give me your keys to
the game versus Texas Tech.
Speaker 12: Well, so let me start with the obvious. The defense
held Texas Tech to multiple field goals and played well
enough for the game to be a lot closer. I
think our offense the first time around was intimidated. We
had some things go bad early and we could never recover.
I think now that you face the big bad monster
and you go, you know what, it's not that bad.
I think we're gonna have renewed energy on offense. We're
not just gonna turn the ball over. But for some reason,
I have a feeling we're gonna start the game off
with max protect, which means leaving in like eight guys
the block, and I think we're gonna take some deep shots.
And even if those deep shots don't connect, I hope
they do. But what they're gonna show Texas tech is
you are not gonna be able to stack the line
with eight men in the box and play man to men.
If we cannot run the ball against the seven man front,
it's gonna be a long day. But if we can
run it against a seven man front, then they're gonna
have to bring that eighth man in the box, which
means Parker Kingston's gonna be one on one. Jojoe Phillips
is gonna be one on one. Roberts is gonna be
one on one. Bear's gonna have to make some throws.
And we have to be okay getting like one carry
for four yards, uh and then being like third down
and two like we need to eat the clock. We
need to be physical. Then we need to play action
pass and go deep. And I think our defense is
gonna go blow for blow for blow with them. I
expect Jack Kelly to have a monster game tomorrow.
Speaker 5: I can't wait to see a healthy YU team. Right look,
they're healthier than they've been in a long time. Lj's healthy,
Bear Bockmeyer's healthy, Chase Roberts is healthy. Offensively, you have
the defense, uh bringing back a lot of players right
that have regered, or Justin Kirklans back in the lineup,
Tommy Prices back in the lineup.
Speaker 4: Uh, Nissy Purcell should be there as well. Like this
is uh, this.
Speaker 5: Is gonna be different. The neutral setting also builds well
for b y u Uh. The inclement weather, it was
really windy, and I don't think Sam vander Horr or
Parker Kingston were ready for it, honestly in this game.
And they not only muff punts, but they shanked punts.
This this game is gonna be closer than it was
in Loving It is.
Speaker 12: It is, and you know, and and for me being
a native of Texas, you know, playing in Arlington, which
is basically Dallas, which is not that far from Lovebuck Uh,
Texas Tech still is going to have somewhat of a
home field advantage. But you know, b Yu we we
we travel well. And I think the game is going
to be sold out. It's gonna be incredible, and I
just don't think we're gonna turn the ball over. If
Texas Tech plays their best game and we play our
best game, Texas Tech will win. They have more talent. However,
the most talented team are the best team doesn't always win.
The team that wins is the one that executes on
the day of the game. And I just think we're
gonna get some turnovers, We're gonna get some big plays.
I think we're gonna get out ahead early on Tech,
make them panic. They're not used to that. The only
game where they had some resistance was basically Arizona State, right,
and so I think we're gonna get out ahead of them,
and I think they're gonna panic. I think they're gonna
force some things. I look to us tomorrow to have
at least three to four turnovers, some big plays in
the kicking game, and I think we're gonna I think
we're gonna matriculate the ball down the field, play action, pass,
max protect, go over the top. Kingston's is gonna be
a nightmare. I hope they play him man the man.
I hope they do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, you wonder, Okay, what happened in the
Arizona State game. How did Arizona State beat Texas Tech.
I don't know if you've been able to look at
that game evaluated, but it's kind of interesting how I mean, look,
Number one, they were at home. That helps write a
home crowd definitely helps. Will Hammond was the starter for
Texas Tech, the true freshman that he had seen some
pt but it's not like he'd ever been in an
environment like this with the defensive coordinator that had prepared
for him. He got in the Utah game played really well,
but they didn't prepare for him. So you know, there's
a lot to take in in regards to that. But
one thing that Sam Levitt did well is the extended plays,
kept eyes downfield. They got some chunk yardage plays on
real plays, and I thought that was kind of pivotal.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Levitt, who I played with his dad, was just
pretty pretty cool. He was a human RoboCop. But Levitt
in that game was twenty eight of forty seven for
three nineteen. So that's Dnkin and Duncan too. That's that's
that's not that's that's been judicious with the ball. You know,
like back in the day, Detmer on twenty eight completions
would have had five hundred yards, you know, just so
I think we need to. I'm sure our coaches have
looked at that film and have said, Okay, here's some
things that we can do. And I think that we
have to be aggressive. But I do think max protection
is cool. So that means you run in three man routes.
If those guys aren't there, then throw the check down.
Get five yards on a checkdown, get six yards on
a checkdown that eventually one of those guys are gonna miss.
Leave your big tight end in you know, to block
almost max protect, dump it to him. He's two hundred
and fifty pounds. That's not gonna be fun tackling that guy.
You miss one tackle, that's twelve, that's fifteen yards. And
so we have to be aggressive, and that means even
taking the checkdowns. But we gotta throw some haymakers, like like,
come out throwing hay makers, come out with like, you
know what we expect to win this game. We have
faced the monster and we ready this time.
Speaker 5: Dewey Gray pastor dew We Gray here on ESPN the Fan.
One thing that I know that you'll appreciate is, uh,
you know Kilani is h He's a great figurehead of
the of of BYU and BYU football. I think Shane
Reeve said as much. He said, look like, in many ways,
Kolani is the face of Brigham Young University. He's the ambassador.
He's the most recognized figure of the churches. You just
Christ a lot of the saints in many ways, you
know what I mean. And he goes out in front
of Kugarnation and he says, look, you know, and I'm
just grateful that I get to be the head coach.
But you know, it should be more than just football.
It should be about being a disciple of Christ. So
when you hear that, you see that, you see the
engagement and what they're they're doing with Colonie and investing
in him as that face of BYU.
Speaker 4: What's your reaction to it?
Speaker 11: You know?
Speaker 12: So my I think my reaction would be somewhat different,
and I'm going to take a different angle. And I
think knowing history is really important. Who would ever thought,
let's just say, in nineteen seventy eight, when blacks, black
men cannot hold the mal Kezidic priesthood right, who would
have thought that the face of Brigham Young University would
be a Polynesian man. I mean that that is unheard of,
and frankly, I would suspect that there were many who
would not have wanted that. So I think it's quite
remarkable to find ourselves in twenty twenty five that Koloni
Saitake and his history and his story of getting to
where he is is the face of BYU and his
coaching has put BYU on the map at a new level,
which I'm sure coach Edwards would just be so ecstatic
about to see one of his players take the program
to new heights. And so, yeah, I think that's really
cool that the face of BYU is a Polynesian man.
I think that's pretty awesome.
Speaker 5: And then piggybacking off of that, like he's saying, look, yeah,
I want to win football games, but I also want
to celebrate, you know, christ I want to serve. I
want to develop men. I mean, but he mentions discipleship
a lot.
Speaker 12: He does. He does, he does, and I think that's
one of the reasons why a lot of guys want
to play for them. And I think that's why a
lot of parents want their kids to play for him
as well. And I've said this for years, is you know,
playing for BYU creates a moral framework that you're going
to live from that's helpful not only on the field,
but off the field academically. And so you know, I
at my time at BYU, I think I may have
heard one coach curse in my four years there, you know,
So I do think that there's something about playing in
an environment like that where they're trying to develop you holistically.
You know, when you're eighteen nineteen, you don't like, you
think you're going to be that age forever, and you
think you're going to play football forever, but you're going
to be a non football player a lot longer than
you are a football player. And so yeah, football is
a great tool to actually teach the Christian faith from
I tell our congregation all the time that I'm a
football coach disguise as a pastor. The Bibles, the playbook,
you're the team, and the football is the gospel.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 5: Man, great insight, great perspective on the situation down at
BYU and Kaloni Satak.
Speaker 4: Look.
Speaker 5: The great thing too is you know we've seen over
the years BYU as an institution maybe not invest in
the coordinators. We all know head coaches are only as
good as their coordinators, right, and Kalani the figurehead, he's
got his strengths, he's got his weaknesses.
Speaker 4: And he can't do it all.
Speaker 5: You've got to be able to attract and retain good coordinators.
And right now you have Aaron Roderick the offense per
espnsp plus's top twenty, their twentieth in the nation.
Speaker 4: The inefficiency metrics you.
Speaker 5: S ESPNSB plus top twenty and and special teams.
Speaker 4: Is not too far behind that they're like top thirty.
Speaker 5: You got true complimentary football and coordinators that can coach
up and inspire and get players to execute.
Speaker 4: It's a special time right now.
Speaker 12: It is it is you. You can only be as
effective as the assistants are around you, and you also
want to take care of your assistance and go to
bat form. You know, if I were a head coach,
my philosophy would be I would look for assistance that
I believe that one day could be a head coach
because they're going to have the vision, the ambent vision,
and the work ethics and the details to execute what's
being asked. And you know, the offensive line coach is
incredible FeSi. I mean it is a it is a
strong staff you look at the corners with Gennaro, it
is a it is a strong staff, and you know
we're gonna have to fight hard to keep a lot
of that a lot of that staff. But you know,
when you go back to coach Edwards, I mean, people
forget Andy Reid was on his staff. I mean three
times super Bowl winning coach learned the West Coast offense
from coach Edwards. You know, Brian Belichick, I mean and
and uh not Belichick, Billick and so uh, you know,
list goes on and on and so it's good to
see that the assistants are going to be taken care of.
And you want to head coach who's also gonna found
the table for you to get paid as well, and
not just him. You want to coach for a person
like that. You you want to you want to build
something special with a person like that.
Speaker 5: Pastor Dewey Gray Uh the pastor of the Transformation Church
pastor Transformation Church. You can check it out Transformation Church
dot TC, I believe is the website. One of the
things I love talking to you about is uh is
uh the religious aspects, the discipleship aspects of all.
Speaker 4: Things and what have you?
Speaker 5: Guys been been doing there at the Transformation Church, UH
this month. Last month, we have Thanksgiving, we have Christmas.
Speaker 4: UH.
Speaker 5: We we want to turn our our our our our
our view, our mindset towards Christ and his birth and
his mission on this earth. What are you guys doing
there at the Transformation Church this month?
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, I would I would say the biggest
thing that we're doing this Christmas UH is where we
share a lot of generosity. And so there's some things
we're gonna be We're gonna we're gonna be paying off
tens of millions of dollars of medical debt for people
in the North Carolina and South Carolina. And we we
have a free grocery store. There's gonna be several other
things that we're gonna be doing to to help people
in pain. But mostly we're going to be continuing to
cast the seeds of the Gospel of grace that most
people do not believe that the grace of God is
as good as it is. Most people think God is
grading on a curve or if they score enough points,
and you know, it's hard to believe that God doesn't
grade on a curve. He grades on a cross and
Jesus on the cross got an a plus for us.
That's what unconditional love is. God is not a god
that we let's work hard to earn his love. No,
he worked hard to earn our faith through his love.
And it's his love that transforms us through the Holy
Spirit's power. And so we're going to continue that message.
People in America are hungry. There's a lot of people
that know about Christ or know of Christ, but do
you really know Christ? Has He really permeated your being?
And I think that's so important because our culture is
so politically divide that politicians are trying to tell people
of faith how to live their faith. And the reality
is it's us, the people of Jesus, who should be
telling politicians. No, love is the way to go, Kindness
is the way to go, Compassion is the way to go,
Mercy is the way to go. That's the way of Jesus.
And if we don't believe that's, simply read the beatitudes
in Matthew chapter five three through twelve. It's all there.
Speaker 5: Love that man great insight is always love. Hearing you
preach and you know from your pulpit and sharing the
good news that some people forget about right, we get
bogged down with certain things that are procedural and just
not the most important things in this life. The good
news is what we should be focused on and embrace that.
Do we always appreciate our time together, Always love talking
ball and faith with you.
Speaker 4: Always learn something from you.
Speaker 5: Hopefully b what you comes out victorious and can make
those college football playoff committee members maybe eat a little crow, right.
Speaker 12: Man, the way those guys are by, you could win
forty nine to six. You know, still put Notre Dame
in man.
Speaker 5: It's crazy right, Like, Look, I want to always expect
the best from people, you know, but we are living
in a fallen state. These men and women on in
this temporal state are fallible, right, I'm like, but come on, man,
the objective data is right there before you.
Speaker 4: Where's the love? Where's the truth?
Speaker 12: Man?
Speaker 4: I need the truth to set me free. Baby.
Speaker 12: Man, we need we need some better politic and like
Notre Dame has because that's absurd that they're ahead of us.
But if we win tomorrow, all questions are answered.
Speaker 5: Yes, indeed, we just don't have enough. I guess we
don't have enough. Like cache, a built up equity build
up filthy luker, you know, built up.
Speaker 4: It's just it's not enough right now to sway.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: These people they don't want to talk about us on
their on their committee shows, not even want to know
they did by you or the resume.
Speaker 12: Because of because if they did, it would it would
it would be exposed. There's there's a talent biased against BYU.
And when the committee looks at BYU, they they say,
how in the world could a team based on two
four seven have the seventieth most talented roster in the
country and be this good? Yep, they they don't even
know how to deal with that. But when we win tomorrow,
they're gonna have to deal with it.
Speaker 4: They don't know, but they about to find.
Speaker 12: Out right past mess around and find out a love it.
Speaker 5: Man, Love it, Dewey much love to you, your family.
Always appreciate our time together. And I invite everybody to
not only follow you, check out the Transformation Church website
and then to purchase any of your books that you
have online right now because all of them are fantastic.
Speaker 12: Thanks so much, Thank you, buddy, Bye bye, they go.
Speaker 4: That's Dewy, great ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5: And that segment was brought to you by BMW and
Pleasant Grove. BMW and Pleasant Grove they just do it
better than the rest. Why would you maybe explore purchasing
a BMW and Pleasant Grove. Well, we're getting towards the
end of the year. Maybe once you do your little
tax evals. You should be doing that right now, meeting
with your accountant seeing what your tax rate will be
this year.
Speaker 4: If you're a little bit over and you're not wanting
to spend.
Speaker 5: So much montey, you don't want to give all that
money to Uncle Sam, then you may want to purchase
an asset.
Speaker 4: Albeit yes, cars are depreciating assets.
Speaker 5: But get a six thousand pound vehicle next five or
X seven built from the ground up, supreme engineering, the
ultimate driving machine. And look you get VIP products, VP service,
VP discounts at BMW and Pleasant Grove.
Speaker 4: Bring your current vehicle in.
Speaker 5: Why you're test driving an X five or X seven,
a six thousand plus pound vehicle, you'll get a full detail,
a two hundred and fifty dollars value inside and out
and left or right inside and out, all the ways
outside and in.
Speaker 4: It's a two hunter fifty dollars value.
Speaker 5: While you're test driving one of these beautiful, high flying,
high sore and just ultimate driving machines there at BMW
and Pleasant Grove. They also have a buy three tires,
get one free deal going on right now for all
those tires, all seasons and snow tires. So and you
get a VIP discount when you mentioned myself on all
BMW vehicles there at BMW and Pleasant Grove. Let them
know I sent you. They're gonna take care of you.
Talk to Joe Gistello, he is the sales manager down there.
Say I gotta talk to Joe. Ben sent me in
here and I deserve I need the VIP products, VIP service,
VIP discounts. Let's take a brief time out. We'll be back.
Don't go anywhere. Still breaking down. Bau Texas Tech matchup
on your Cougar Insider Radio Network here, Utah ESPN Radio Network,
one of the three nine ninety eight point three EESPN