Cougs Win Awesome Wild West Shootout at Hughs

At Fort Collins, Colorado tonight, we saw a killer exciting game.  It was close throughout, neither team would back down.  BYU in many respects was clearly the better team, except for some key mistakes including late turnover and a couple of nasty penalties.

BYU's defense clearly continues to struggle, and our secondary is suddenly scraping the bottom of the barrel between transfers and injuries.  So it was up to our offense. 

And what an offense we have!  They were not quite perfect, but they were tremendous.  Max Hall was outstanding (outside of one fumble and one interception); Austin Collie and Dennis Pitta are freaking amazing receivers.  Unga had a solid game running though was outshone by the powerful passing attack.  

The fourth quarter saw 35 points scored and five lead changes, including 2 in the last 2 minutes.  BYU scored the final TD with 22 seconds left then held CSU to win 45-42.  

This brings us to 8-1 so far this season, and we'll see about the rankings tomorrow.  

Next up: our final home game against seriously-struggling San Diego State.  Win there and we reach 9-1 with two very tough road games to complete at Air Force and then Utah.  Big time.