Provo • A dense mist has rolled in over BYU football.

And in the fog of considering what we’re looking at here, in the haze of wondering how long it will be before BYU faces a decent enough opponent this season by which the Cougars can be properly measured — it certainly didn’t happen in the first two weeks at home against Portland State and Stanford, with a bye coming next — an important suspicion, falling short of an absolute conclusion, surfaced on Saturday night against the Cardinal. It was a profound sort of potential find in a 27-3 victory.

The Cougars’ coin seems to have flipped. Their identity has turned. Their personality has changed. Those 69 points BYU put on a winless FCS weakling last week were not the truth , it doesn’t appear to be. It was a mirage against a hapless de

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