Laid an egg in consecutive weeks.

Wins against Utah, USU, and the Pac-12 South are nice, and that combination is certainly more than any of us would have hoped for before the season started.

It’s also true that BYU lost to the worst BSU team in 20 years (a team that lost to Central Florida and AFA) and got absolutely dominated by a (historically) very middle-of-the-pack Baylor team. Utah has shaken up their depth chart in the time following the BYU loss, and just beat ASU and USC in consecutive weeks (both of those games will be measuring sticks against BYU; Utah beat ASU by a wider margin than BYU did, and it’s likely that BYU won’t be able to match Utah’s dominant performance vs USC).

Perhaps the most painful part of all of this is that we’re once again grappling with the all-or-nothing nature of independence; BYU went undefeated through the toughest stretch of the schedule and a NY6 game was on the table. To lose out on that opportunity, again, is hard to stomach. These aren’t 5-2 frustrations so much as they are frustrations with a most ungraceful fall from the top 10.