As season openers go, BYU’s 69-0 demolition of one of the worst teams in the lower-level Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) on Saturday night proved more about the legion of BYU fans who stayed until the bitter, non-entertaining end as anything else.

The Cougars’ crushing of a Portland State team that has now been outscored 101-0 in two non-competitive outings played out as expected in front of 64,494 fans at LaVell Edwards Stadium — the largest crowd in Provo since a 2009 loss to TCU when ESPN’s GameDay crew was in town — but was not educational in the least.

Frankly, we learned very, very little about head coach Kalani Sitake’s 10th team, other than it’s quite a bit better than his second team, which eked out a 20-6 win over the Vikings in 2017.

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