If ever a BYU football team entered a big game with a chip on its shoulder, this Saturday in Arlington, Texas, may be the one. It’s the Cougar version of Atlas shouldering the sky.

Newly minted and extended head coach Kalani Sitake has every emotional speech fodder angle to throw at his team, why they need to beat heavily favored Texas Tech in the rematch for the Big 12 championship.

The list?

ESPN threw shade on them during the CFP show. Didn’t even show comparative achievements or the BYU logo.

The CFP committee ranked the Cougars No. 11, the only P4 or P5 team in modern history to have 11 wins and be left out of the top 10.

In Lubbock the first week of November, “College GameDay” in town, BYU choked. Lost 29-7. And nobody has let them forget the embarrassment.

Undefeated and rank

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