30 August 2019

Ninth verse, same as the first

Colter Peterson, Deseret News

Don't really have much to say, other than congratulations, Seth, for winning the Guess the Score contest by predicting Utah would win 30-18. The $50 Amazon gift card is on the way!

Other than that, it was a fairly typical BYU-Utah game. Utah ground it out with the running game (Moss is seriously impressive) and scored many of their points on defense. Zach imploded, throwing two pick sixes and otherwise looking harried and outmatched.

I think this game broke me, because I've never had less faith BYU could beat Utah in the future. After the rain delay, there were 9 minutes left in the game and there was maybe some hope BYU could stage a miraculous comeback, but Utah just methodically ran the ball 34 times and ran the rest of the game clock out in one drive. BYU KNEW all they wanted to do was run and couldn't stop it. That's demoralizing.

Someone on CB posted that seven of the last thirteen BYU home games have featured BYU scoring a single TD or less.
12 pts & 1 TD vs Utah, offense gave up 2 TD's
6 pts, no TDs vs N Illinois 
11 pts (1 TD in garbage time plus defensive TD) vs Cal
6 pts (no TD's) vs Wisconsin 
10 pts (includes 1 garbage time TD) vs UMass 
7 pts vs Boise State 
13 pts (1 TD) vs Utah
That's abysmal. Poor BYU fans who attend the games. BYU's offense seems entirely broken, and has been for almost a decade now. I don't know if it's going to fixed any time soon.

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