My Call on the BYU - Utah Game

These are some stats that I dug up on a couple of sites. See below for my breakdown of the game and my call on who wins the game.


2007

Utah Total Yards - 376 EDGE: BYU
BYU Total Yards - 465

Utah Passing Yards - 212 EDGE: BYU
BYU Passing Yards - 312

Utah Rushing Yards - 163 EDGE: UTAH
BYU Rushing Yards - 153

Utah Points Scored - 25 EDGE: BYU
BYU Points Scored - 31

FINAL SCORE: BYU 17 - UTAH 10

2008

Utah Total Yards - 416 EDGE: BYU
BYU Total Yards - 456

Utah Passing Yards - 243 EDGE: BYU
BYU Passing Yards - 328

Utah Rushing Yards - 173 EDGE: UTAH
BYU Rushing Yards - 128

Utah Points Scored - 36 EDGE: EVEN
BYU Points Scored - 36

Utah Scoring Defense - 16 EDGE: UTAH
BYU Scoring Defense - 18

Utah Defensive Yards/Game - 284 EDGE: UTAH
BYU Defensive Yards/Game - 345

Utah Rushing Defense - 94 EDGE: UTAH
BYU Rushing Defense - 147

Utah Pass Defense - 189 EDGE: UTAH
BYU Pass Defense - 197


It has taken late quarter heroics for BYU to edge Utah in their past two meetings. I would say that BYU was the better team the past two years. This year is different. Not only is Utah undefeated, but they have beaten 3 times as many division one teams with winning records as BYU has. Looking at the statistics above, Utah has the advantage in 3 more categories than BYU. BYU also proved to completely melt down against fast defenses. (TCU Route). On top of that, Utah always seems to come to these games hungrier than BYU. On the other hand though, it seems that Utah escaped with wins in 5 of their games. BYU escaped with a few wins also, but it seems that Utah has had some dang ugly wins on their road to being undefeated so far.

Sadly, I will have to give the edge to Utah in this game. I'm praying for an upset. You never know what will happen in rivalry games. However, my prediction is:

UTAH 30 - BYU 20

I hope I'm dead wrong.............

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Sam

I was hanging out with Peter and Bruce yesterday. Pete told me something that happened yesterday that totally cracked me up......

Lately, our VCR has been hungry. It's started to eat tapes. The other day, Sam put a tape in of his Grandma Alger's. It was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Unfortunately, the VCR ate the movie and completely tore the tape ribbon in half, so the movie is useless.

So, yesterday Julie and Sam were at her parents house, helping them clean up their yard. I had run out to do the weekly grocery shopping. Any ways, while Julie and Sam were there, Julie wanted Sam to tell his Grandma Alger about the tape. Naturally, Sam wasn't excited about telling his Grandma that her tape was ruined. Julie said, "Sam, tell grandma the bad news." So, Sam said, "Obama Won". HILARIOUS!

I honestly don't know where he gets this stuff. Julie and I haven't really discussed politics in front of him this year, so I'm not sure where he came up with that. This is just another example of the funny kid we have the blessing of having in our family. I love that boy.