Early in the year it is far more difficult for teams to prepare for good BYU suads than vice versa. That means BYU should schedule tougher opponents early. While BYU has started a little slow in times past, it is often because BYU held back some of their offensive and defensive schemes for league play. Furthermore I think BYU wins 10-15 more games in the last Decade with a DOMAN-LIKE/DOUG SCOVILL-LIKE Offensive Coordinator, especially against BCS opponents. Boise has ridden this formula to 116 wins in the last decade. Play a couple of tough games early, beat the crap out of WAC foes afterwords.

Those thinking BYU's Home Schedule is bad should waltz through the dance floor of other name programs and see some of their home slates...often equally low of impression. TCU's home schedule this year is arguably worse than BYU's. When you start wandering though the great team schedule, you'll rarely find more than a couple of big name opponents on tap for the home folk. In the SEC, ACC and BIG-TEN you'll see a lot of WAC level Sun-Belt, C-USA and MAC schools...even more FCS programs. Victories are what sell out the home stadium, not weekly slobberknockers that kill your program and leave you barely bowl eligible if at all. The goal is to play 3-4 pretty good programs every year, 3-4 average or middle of the pack type teams and then 4 games that should be barely more than a scrimmage most of the time...and almost always at home.