Boulder, Colo. • BYU offensive coordinator Aaron Roderick felt good about his quarterback coming back from halftime deficits.

Just last week, freshman quarterback Bear Bachmeier manufactured 21 points after the intermission to beat East Carolina.

“He was throwing to the right guy [in the first half], doing the right thing,” Roderick said. “I had a lot of confidence in him to regroup and score points in the second half.”

Asked to do it a second straight week, Bachmeier delivered again in Boulder.

BYU’s offense, which struggled to put up 10 points in the first half, scored two touchdowns in the second half to give the Cougars a 24-21 win over the Colorado Buffaloes.

The first score came on a fourth-and-2 inside the red zone, with Bachmeier delivering a strike to a wide-open Chase Rober

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