Laramie, well nothing good can be said about Laramie -especially in November. Any other week I envy the chance to strap on the pads and helmet and mix it up one more time, but not this week.
Your pads and helmet become extremely uncomfortable as the air inside expands, leaving you even more irritable. Maybe that’s why the fans are so hostile in Laramie, I know I would be mad if I had to wade through 9 months of winter.
Regarding some of the crazy stories about the fans and heated pennies …

I had been wanting to write something that addresses our collective anger and disappointment over an 11-2 season for quite some time now.  I remember having these same feelings last year.  The big question is that in 2006 and 2007 we went 11-2 and felt like we were on top of the world.  Now going 11-2 is the most depressing thing there is.  How can that be?

The Conference Championship Race is over…

This weekend confirmed a suspicion that I have had for a little while, and it breaks my heart to say it…

I couldn’t take it anymore. The bleeding was profuse and I didn’t see it stopping. Man we blew two golden opportunities, at home, with the nation watching.
Where has BYU’s home field advantage gone? Did it really only take one loss to unwrap the past four years?
I don’t have much positive to say, and being that I normally try and talk about the “good things” I’m going to stop.
Please leave a comment and let me know if I missed anything in the fourth. I just couldn’t watch another minute.

That game had it’s moments. That was one of those BYU–SDSU shoot-outs of old—you know the ones with eighty combined points and eight hundred combined total yardage.
I was encouraged by  SDSU and a little anxious for BYU with the meat of our schedule approaching.
I’m sure there are a few out there with some heat. Let it out…and be done with it.

In the one loss to -a crappy- FSU team BYU allowed 313 yards rushing and made their QB look like the second coming of Nebraska’s Scott Frost. Since that game -and before that game also- the Cougars have been able to limit their opponents ground gains, forcing teams to use alternative methods in moving the ball. By alternative methods, I mean throwing the ball, which some teams have done successfully and others have done poorly.
For me it’s all about managing risk. If your team can stop the run the defensive …

There is a lot of good discussion right now about those who don’t deserve or don’t belong.  Let’s here your thoughts and see your results.

Most Over Rated Team in the Top 25(trends)

Things  are becoming a little more predictable around the conference, but what a great weekend for some exciting games.  The battle for 3rd-5th is becoming quite the contest.  Let’s check it out.

New Mexico at Wyoming(survey software)

Utah at Colorado State(poll)

TCU at Air Force(answers)

BYU at UNLV(polls)

Who is the MVP so far?(opinion)

I want to know who you think is the MVP so far this season and I want to know why! Anyone can click a button to vote but it takes a true deep shades of blue fan to follow up with a nice comment!

What an interesting College Football season so far.  It is getting harder and harder to get a pulse on how good teams actually are.  This was not a very good week for the MWC as teams went 4-4 against Non-Conference opponents, none of whom were from powerhouse conferences.  This was a week where the MWC should easily have been 8-0 or 7-1 at worst (because Navy really is a good team).  Let’s break it down…

As we are moving more and more towards in-conference games things are starting to become a little more clear in the Mountain West.  We are now 4 games into the season and good or bad, it is becoming harder for teams to hide who they really are.  So without further ado, let’s take a look at this weekend’s action.

It sure makes it tough to win football games when the other team gets to have more possessions than they should and this is becoming a problem for the Cougars.
In Coach Mendenhall’s first year as a head coach we addressed this issue every day in practice.  For the offense it was “Ball Security.”  For the defense it was Turnover Drills.  The focus on both sides of the ball being, Turnovers play a HUGE roll in games, especially against tough opponents.
BYU is 3-2 in their last 5 games and they given …

With another week of football games under our belt we were able to see some interesting things play out in the conference, and I must say that for all the grief I got last week about CSU’s ranking, I feel pretty good about it heading into week 3.  Let’s take a look at what went on.
Air Force 13 (1-1) – Minnesota 20
The Falcons could not fly home with a win on this one.  In a well fought game, close game, AFA came up short in what would have …