Thanks to a fairly soft early schedule, the fact that their starting quarterback is a true freshman , and their inability to beat lower-level Big 12 teams Colorado and Arizona convincingly, the No. 15 BYU Cougars have not really earned the respect they believe they deserve midway through the 2025 college football season.

Despite them being undefeated and atop the conference standings after going 11-2 last year, the jury is still out on coach Kalani Sitake’s crew — at least from a national perspective. Are the Cougars a contender for a College Football Playoff spot, or a pretender that will fall out of the race now that the slate gets extremely more difficult?

An answer to that question will almost certainly come Saturday night in one of the most important games in the long and storie

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