Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
BYU coach Kalani Sitake talks to referees during the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl against the Western Michigan Broncos at Albertsons Stadium in Boise on Friday, Dec. 21, 2018.
There are 51 freshmen listed on the BYU football roster. More than the usual number of them started the latter half of the Cougar season, and several, including the game’s MVP, quarterback Zach Wilson, made huge plays in a bowl win last week.
These are they who learned what a bowl game feels like.
They saw what it looked like. Tasted it.
They heard what it sounded like in the locker room to send off a senior class with a win, and they celebrated hard alongside them, signing autographs and posing for photos with fans long after the trophy ceremony in Albertsons Stadium Friday night as crews cleaned up the stands and stashed equipment away.