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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I hope you are dead wrong too. BYU is not a happy place to work after BYU football takes a defeat. And it is all they talk about the whole next week. Actually, home is not a happy place when BYU loses. But, that only last about an hour after the game and then it is over. At least on the surface.
So, who are you watching the game with?
GO COUGARS!
I had never seen those statistics, but probably would have come to a similar conclusion, especially the part about I HOPE YOU ARE DEAD WRONG! Down with the utes. (I didn't capitalize on purpose!)
u WERE dead wrong...we not only BEAT the Y but we DOUBLED their score! ouch!! :)
by the way, my boy loves Rudy, too.
You need to blog more often.
You had a whole week off from work and you didn't update. Booooo.
So....are you done blogging? I'm thinking about it too.
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