showing up at the same 61 spot on teamrankings.com — but out of only 130 teams. Bill Connolly of SB Nation puts them at a 52/130, and ESPN’s power index had them at 60.
Add to this the fact that BYU has won less games in the last three years despite playing significantly easier schedules on average than the prior two coaches faced — I’m just not sure we should be pointing to the football program as a model of what we want for basketball.