“Obviously it didn’t go as clean as I would like. … I’m just glad we made it to a bowl game,” BYU coach Kalani Sitake said after the Cougars' 52-26 win over Utah Tech on Saturday.
a Brigham Young Cougars wide receiver Puka Nacua is pressured by Utah Tech's Will Leota in football action between the Brigham Young Cougars and the Utah Tech Trailblazers at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022.They celebrated at the 25-yard line. Seniors in the middle of the pile, everyone else jumping around them.
Yes, it was the end result that BYU wanted. But it was about as ugly of a way to get to bowl eligibility as possible. Utah Tech had a 20-14 lead late in the second quarter and was within one score until five minutes left in the third. Multiple busted coverages and bevy of third-down miscues made the Trailblazers feel like an equal to BYU when one team is just getting used to the Division I level and another team is heading to the Big 12.
Players felt that way as they celebrated a sixth win. Everyone said BYU “shot itself in the foot” or some derivation of that phrase. But also conceded that there was more joy than disappointment. Had BYU had aspirations for a certain bowl or the postseason, how it won and tangible improvement might carry weight. Not necessarily anymore for this group.
It gave up two long, third-down conversations and a late touchdown, but Sitake conceded that most of the backups were in at that point. “I think everybody expects the FBS team to be up by 50 in the first quarter,” Sitake said. “You see it all throughout football. Sometimes you just got to play all four quarters. We knew we were going to get their best shot. Things looked a little rocky there, especially in the first quarter. But it is a long game.”
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