This is a review of what happened in the contests listed in Blue Cat's Rooting guide. I couldn't find where anyone had done this and I was thinking this is something that would be interesting as well. This is the review for Week 1. I'll try and catch up on the others weeks as time allows (unless anyone else wants to volunteer and look up all the scores for the other weeks). Green was a "good" outcome. Red is a "bad" outcome. You'll note that there were numerous close contests that easily could contribute towards outcomes that may be the opposite of what the W or L would indicate.

The goals for BYU are:

1. To win the National Championship
2. To go to a NY6 bowl game
3. To achieve the highest ranking possible
4. To win as many games as possible
5. To be bowl eligible and play the best bowl team possible
6. To be better than Utah

If you want to see these goals accomplished here is your rooting guide:

A. Cheer for BYU. Duh.

BYU over Connecticut

B. Cheer for the team playing Utah. If we need help from Utah in any way then it is not worth having.

Idaho St. over Utah

C. Cheer for BYU’s opponents. This helps SOS.

Boise St. Over #18 Ole Miss (13-35)
Houston over UTSA (7-27)
UNLV over Arizona (13-58)
UCF over Penn St. (26-24)
Virginia over #7 UCLA (20-28)
Nevada over Southern Utah (28-19)
Cal over Northwestern (31-24)
MTSU over Savannah St. (61-7)
Texas over North Texas (38-7)
USU over Tennessee (38-7)


D. Cheer for teams playing teams ranked ahead of BYU. If both teams are ranked cheer for the team with more probable losses in their future (Of course rules A-C trump rule D).
Oklahoma St. Over #1 Florida St. (31-37)
West Virginia over #2 Alabama (23-33)
South Dakota over #3 Oregon (13-62)
Louisiana Tech over #4 Oklahoma (16-48)
Navy over #5 Ohio St. (17-34)
Arkansas over #6 Auburn (21-45)
Jacksonville St. Over #8 Michigan St. (7-45)
#21 Texas A&M over #9 South Carolina (52-28)
SMU over #10 Baylor (0-45)
UC Davis over #11 Stanford (0-45)
#13 LSU over #14 Wisconsin (28-24)
#16 Clemson over #12 Georgia (21-45)
Fresno St. Over #15 USC (13-52)
Rice over #17 Notre Dame (17-48)
Weber St. Over #19 Arizona St. (14-45)
Stephen F. Austin over #20 Kansas St. (16-55)
Florida Atlantic over #22 Nebraska (7-55)
Liberty over #23 North Carolina (29-56)
South Dakota St. Over #24 Missouri (18-38)
Hawaii over #25 Washington (16-17)

E. Cheer for our Opponents’ opponents unless they are playing our opponents. This helps our SOS in virtually every SOS calculation. The more connected a team is to our opponents the more you should cheer for them (unless it violates rules A-D). Air Force is the most connected team to our opponents as they play 4 games against them (Boise St., Nevada, UNLV, Utah St.). The number by the team indicates how connected they are. If the numbers are equal take the team who has lost or will most likely lose to our opponents.

AF 4 over Nicholls St. (44-16)
South Florida 3 over Western Carolina (36-31)
Tulane 3 over Tulsa (31-38)
Temple 3 over Vanderbilt (37-7)
Memphis 3 over Austin Peay (Although you can root for Peay just to say “Let’s go Peay”) (63-0)
SDSU 3 over Northern Arizona (38-7)
SJSU 3 over North Dakota (42-10)
UNM 3 over UTEP (24-31)
Colorado St. 3 over Colorado (31-17)
East Carolina 2 over NC Central (52-7)
Washington St. 2 over Rutgers (41-38)
Wyoming 2 over Montana (17-12)
Northern Illinois over Presbyterian (55-3)
Wake Forest over Louisiana Monroe (10-17)
Arkansas St. over Montana St. (37-10)
Louisiana Lafayette over Southern (45-6)
Kent St. over Ohio (14-17)
Pitt over Delaware (62-0)
Duke over Elon (52-13)
Miami over Louisville (13-31)
Virginia Tech over William and Mary (34-9)
Oregon St. over Portland St. (29-14)
Iowa St. over North Dakota St. (14-34)
TCU over Samford (48-14)
Texas Tech over Central Arkansas (42-35)
Minnesota over Eastern Illinois (42-20)
Western Kentucky over Bowling Green (59-31)
Southern Miss over Mississippi St. (0-49)
Old Dominion over Hampton (41-28)
Marshall over Miami Oh (42-27)
UAB over Troy (48-10)
FIU over Bethune Cookman (12-14)


F. Cheer for the FCS team. Because it is fun (unless it violates rules A-E)

Abilene Christian over Georgia St. (37-38)
Howard over Akron (0-41)
Chattanooga over Central Michigan (16-20)
Cal Poly over New Mexico St. (10-28)
Villanova over Syracuse (26-27)
Indiana St. over Indiana (10-28)
Northern Iowa over Iowa (23-31)
Tennessee Martin over Kentucky (14-59)
Youngstown St. over Illinois (17-28)
Wofford over Georgia Tech (19-38)
Colgate over Ball St. (10-30)
James Madison over Maryland (7-52)
Duquesne over Buffalo (28-38)
Morgan St. over Eastern Michigan (28-31)
New Hampshire over Toledo (20-54)
Arkansas Pine Bluff over Texas St. (0-65)

G. Cheer for the little guy

Appalachian St. over Michigan (14-52)
Western Michigan over Purdue (34-43)
Georgia Southern over NC St. (23-24)
Umass over Boston College (7-30)
Idaho over Florida (rained out - No Contest)