I maintained in the offseason, and still do, that the game this weekend, will be the real marker of where we are as a team, and what kind of recruiting classes we've had in the past few years. I don't think we were particularly overmatched against BYU, but it's hard to tell, because the game was so disjointed on our part. The most bothersome drive on D, was the carving up we allowed after scoring our TD late in the second quarter. Was that mental? Was it physical? Not enough data. But it was critical. 21-7 at half, with momentum and the ball, coming out of the half, vs. 28-7. THe offense? Just too much substitution, and disjointed attack, to know where we are physically. We weren't able to put up more than 10 points against BYU. That's all we know for now.
Truthfully, the team had every opportunity to cave mentally and physically during the game, from the opening drive to the end, and that in itself is light years ahead of where we were last season, but at some point, you got to start learning what it feels like to actually stomp on another team and win, or it becomes more and more difficult to maintain that team attitude. We need to get there sooner than later.