Provo • Kalani Sitake sat in the same back room of LaVell Edwards Stadium, wearing the same dissatisfied look on his face, after another regular season was done.

In 2024, BYU’s head coach just couldn’t wrap his head around how his team just went 10-2 and was still so far from its College Football Playoff dreams . He tried to celebrate a season-ending win over Houston. But the missed opportunities wouldn’t let him.

“We are sitting here at 10-2, but my mind keeps going to what could have been,” he said that day.

Almost exactly a year later, Sitake was there again, equally discontent after throttling UCF on Saturday afternoon. This time, BYU avoided the potholes that sunk it in 2025. It went 11-1, improved in nearly every statistical category and suffered its lone defeat against a top-

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