If the odds are 85% that you win in a game against a really bad team and you play 7 or 8 of those teams most yuears (which BYU did for the 80s and 90s) you are likely to lose one of those games most years and 2 some years. It is just math. Losing 2 this year and several a couple years ago was outside of the expectation with the math, but Lavell was playing above the odds for most years, until late in his career when things slowed down. Not giving excuses, just saying it is not unusual to lose to bad teams occasionally when you play bad teams almost every week. Glad we play good to great teams much more often now than we did in the 80s, 90s and 00s.