It didn’t take long, a day or so, for BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe to be validated for his decision not to play Washington this Saturday.
I like his skill and acumen on and off the field and he deserves credit for reading between the lines of the much-debated invite.
But it doesn’t take a genius to see that whatever Holmoe decided to do with the Pac-12 offer, it was all moot but for the finger-wagging and second-guessing that followed from those who called it ducking a Power Five game.
Utah will play Washington in Seattle this weekend because Arizona State is unable to pass Pac-12 testing protocols.