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Dick Harmon: Plenty of QB drama with BYU-Hawaii, but the key will be defense

PROVO — The quarterback position may get the attention when 6-1 Hawaii visits 3-3 BYU on Saturday in LaVell Edwards Stadium, but defense will determine the winner.

It’s high time BYU got defensive. Kalani Sitake’s team needs more emotion, more takeaways, more disruption and energy. It’s time BYU played with reckless abandon on defense, even though beat up and missing some stars. The passivity is putting everyone to sleep. It might as well start this weekend against the Warriors.

This was a week of chatter about BYU making a quarterback change. Inserting freshman Zach Wilson for senior Tanner Mangum will be a highlight of the game on ESPN2 because he will be matched against Hawaii’s Cole McDonald, the nation’s No.