Saving their best for last — that is the hope of BYU football coach Kalani Sitake — and if Saturday’s bounce-back performance is any indicator, he’s gonna love this last phase of the season.

The Cougars (9-1, 6-1) admittedly played their first “complete” game on Saturday, pounding TCU 44-13. The effort and mirrored results were a radical contrast to the week before in the loss at No. 6 Texas Tech — and that’s just fine.

A hard and timely lesson that doesn’t derail the train allows for recovery while remaining on the tracks that lead them to Arlington and the Big 12 championship game. Here are the three key plays against the Horned Frogs that kept BYU moving in that direction.

Hounding Hoover

Trailing 3-0 midway through the first quarter, TCU’s offense faced its first third down at the

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