With the most difficult part of BYU’s football schedule in the books, let’s pause to acknowledge, if not appreciate, the sheer oddity of what we have seen so far.
It’s uncanny. Seven of eight games were decided by margins of 2, 1, 3, 3, 2, 7 and 1. The lone exception was BYU’s surprising 17-point road win over Michigan State. Given the endless variables of a football game — the tipped passes, fumbles, penalties, interceptions, extra points and so forth — what are the odds that after 60 minutes of action that so many games would go to the wire or that the Cougars would be so evenly matched with another team with such regularity.