After years of reading his columns/predictions, I've yet to come across a national sports guy that seems to have it out for BYU quite like this guy, and that includes Mark May. Picking us to lose in this game just more evidence of that, but really it is a history of strange picks against BYU, always ranking us well below our spot in other polls, and really odd anti-BYU sentiments in his columns including calling us a "fundamentally flawed team" for needing two hail mary's to win our first 2 games heading into the UCLA game (a team he had winning it all at that time). After that game, no crow was eaten, and he continued making baffling picks against us.
http://collegefootballnews.com/2015/missouri-vs-byu-game-preview-prediction