'96 and '01 come to mind. Of course, the team

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Jun 26, 2019
12:07:09pm

gwalker All-American

'96 and '01 come to mind. Of course, the team

got blown out in Hawaii in '01, but there is a decent argument to be made that being told BYU was out of contention for an Alliance Bowl during the week leading up to that game took a lot of wind out of our sails.

And if we aren't trying to be tested at the highest level, IMO, what's the point?

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POLL: Leaving aside the AAC discussion and being more general, do you prefer:

gwalker

6/26/19 12:02pm

When was the last time BYU ended a season wishing they had been tested more?

BYU Fan

6/26/19 12:05pm

'96 and '01 come to mind. Of course, the team

gwalker

6/26/19 12:07pm

Didn’t Doman break ribs and Staley get his leg broke in the game before Hawaii?

Superman21

6/26/19 1:17pm

Staley got hurt in the Mississippi State game. I think Doman did too.

gwalker

6/26/19 1:32pm

Right, I think that probably took more wind out of their sails than anything el.

Superman21

6/26/19 1:49pm

1984

Indy Coug

6/26/19 12:07pm

I don't need BYU to have played Miami or Washington and risk losing that title

BYU Fan

6/26/19 12:14pm

It certainly needed Pitt to finish a lot better than 3-7-1

Indy Coug

6/26/19 12:14pm

BYU probably wasn't the best team in the country that year

BYU Fan

6/26/19 12:39pm

Probably 2006. They took a few weeks to find traction and then mostly dominated.

CaliWG

6/26/19 12:57pm

Spoiler about my personal answer

gwalker

6/26/19 12:05pm

I got so tired of hearing my son talk about the P5 schedules being so much

BYU I Bleed Blue

6/26/19 12:08pm

We did prove it at the end of the year... we beat a pretty good K-State team that was ranked 14th in the country...

Coug

6/26/19 12:10pm

But we didn't get a chance to be in an Alliance Bowl. We proved we were #5.

gwalker

6/26/19 12:12pm

You know what's funny about that season...

Coug

6/26/19 12:19pm

Wyoming was a victim of not enough bowls and a small fanbase.

Jeffacka

6/26/19 12:43pm

We'll be the victim of having no agreement at all cause we choose to go at it alone

Coug

6/26/19 12:46pm

That won't happen.

Jeffacka

6/26/19 12:56pm

It will... cause the Highest G5 team gets the bid first... we don't have any agreement...

Coug

6/26/19 1:00pm

I guess I should have been more clear.

Jeffacka

6/26/19 1:03pm

They did prove themselves by failing to beat a good Washington team

BYU Fan

6/26/19 12:16pm

BYU's institutional restrictions + revenue levels aren't enough to be consistently competitive against

Indy Coug

6/26/19 12:06pm

Weaker or more to our level of play teams?

Coug

6/26/19 12:08pm

Last year wasn't the kind of year that left us wondering. And it also wasn't any

gwalker

6/26/19 12:09pm

Every year has proven that though...

Coug

6/26/19 12:16pm

I don’t think we do know our place...majority think we’re P5 and deserve a P5 invitation. Based on many other schools in

6/26/19 12:36pm

Every time I hear about why we should be P5...

Coug

6/26/19 12:43pm

BYU competed very well in the late 2000's along with Utah and TCU

BYU Fan

6/26/19 12:57pm

You can't just minus the undefeated seasons and call it even...

Coug

6/26/19 1:03pm

My point was just that BYU was competing

BYU Fan

6/26/19 1:14pm

We were... we had the BIGXII needing a school...

Coug

6/26/19 1:29pm

I want the scheduling efficient frontier

Blue Cat

6/26/19 12:17pm

I'm OK with us having tried out a more challenging schedule but now that we've seen the results

Indy Coug

6/26/19 12:18pm

It's the Boise St model. Has worked great for them.

yakkamole

6/26/19 3:21pm

Option A is a proven model that we've used in the past as well as other solid G5

kolob32

6/26/19 12:31pm

I’m for a stronger schedule, just not convinced our schedule would be vastly

Josef K

6/26/19 12:43pm

I'm for option A as long as it includes staying Indy.

Orem58thBall

6/26/19 2:25pm

The problem with you poll is you can have the same SOS or > in the AAC.

blackshirts

6/26/19 2:32pm

I said B at the beginning of independence knowing it would be hard to swallow

Ash

6/26/19 2:37pm

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