For 24 seasons, Greg Wrubell has been calling football games on the radio for BYU. Over the years, he has seen and described just about everything imaginable, including tremendous moments of joy and despair — with some of those mood swings happening on the same play.

On Saturday, when the Cougars clash with Portland State (6 p.m., ESPN+, BYURadio), Wrubell will call a scene no one in these parts has seen before. Bear Bachmeier will become the first true freshman quarterback to lead BYU into a season opener. As Wrubell will opine, the kid’s newness is only part of the story.

“I don’t know how many true freshmen come into BYU at his size (6-foot-2, 225 pounds) and readiness physically and with his pedigree. Everybody wanted this guy,” Wrubell told the “Y’s Guys” livestream show this we

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