BYU's total records:

WAC 1962-1998: 288–147–4 (.656)
MWC 1999-2010: 96–54 (.640)
Independent 2011-2016: 49–25 (.662)

Even adding 2017's horrible start only drops independence to (.633). And anyone who thinks this year's record would be much better if we were in a conference hasn't been paying attention, either to how we're playing right now or to our history of playing tough P5 teams at the start of the season even when we were in conferences.