Realistic expectations for Bronco Mendenhall successor Kalani Sitake

Joe Williams led all offensive players with a 113 all-purpose yards, 91 rushing and 22 receiving. The first weekend of bowl games pits BYU against Utah in the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl on December 19th at 3:30 p.m. EST.

The first quarter had four scoring plays that covered a combined 315 yards. "But I'm taking with me a pretty good going away present". "(We had) just enough left in the tank". On just 65 yards of offense, the Utes sandblasted the Cougars with scouring defense, forcing BYU to have five turnovers on their first five possessions.

Whittingham thinks that his team his team had its fair share of highs and lows, but in the end, only cares that his team got the win. Fortunately for Whittingham, his players proved they could still show up for the Holy War.

On the other side of the field will be freshman quarterback Tanner Mangum who will be playing in his first rivalry game after growing up watching the game every year. Those hopes were mostly dashed in their first defeat, a 42-24 loss to USC, but UTah followed up by another two wins.

Oh, and then there was Hackett running this fake punt in the second half to pick up what seemed like a pivotal first down at the time. Travis Wilson, who was sacked three times, went 9 for 16 with 71 yards. He might have had win No. 100, but for five turnovers that put the Cougars in a 35-0 hole in the first quarter of Saturday's game.

"We see eye-to-eye. We haven't been together very many days and we talk as if we were teammates in the same backfield", Holmoe said. Utah's Tevin Carter snagged this ball out of the air after the deflection and took it 28 yards to the house.

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For Utah, it capped a fantastic day in sports. With 3:23 remaining in the game, Magnum ran four yards to find pay dirt, which brought the Cougars to within a single score of winning the game. "We were pathetic in the third quarter and half of the fourth quarter", Whittingham said. "It was our defense flying around, getting great pressure on the quarterback". "Our team works hard".

Things got really interesting in the 4th quarter when Mangum connected with Nick Kurtz on a 5 yard touchdown pass to make it 35-21 and then Mangum's TD run turned it into a one touchdown game. Sitake gets an extremely tough draw in his first year at the helm, as the Cougars face a brutal opening slate of games against Arizona at University of Phoenix Stadium (Glendale, Arizona), at Utah, UCLA, West Virginia at FedEx Field (Landover, Maryland), and at defending Big 10 Champion Michigan State. BYU is statistically dead even with them, also giving up only 21.8 points per game. Watch BYU Cougars vs Utah Utes live stream online NCAA College Football ABC TV broadcast coverage, live scores, Game Kickoff time & schedule and Radio Commentary info here.

Facing a fourth and 13, Blackmon got loose behind the defense and Mangum found him for a 44-yard gain to keep the drive alive. It had just 76 yards of offense at the break compared to BYU's 190, and the Utes averaged just 2.8 yards per play through two quarters. Thankfully, for the sake of sensitive fans, he clarified that the rivalry is important and that "Streaks are made to be broken" when it came to the Cougars losing streak.

 

Mendenhall is the coach whose emotions could have conceivably compelled him to punch a wall at the start of the game. Utah became the third team to win consecutive Las Vegas Bowls and the first since that Bronco squad won three in a row from 2010-12.

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