No doubt about it, No. 9 BYU’s football game at No. 21 Boise State on Friday at Albertsons Stadium is easily the most important game of Cougars coach Kalani Sitake’s five-season tenure in Provo.
It isn’t hard to argue that it is BYU’s most important game since it went independent in football in 2011, although a bunch of games with rival Utah loomed large in terms of reversing that curse before the Cougars fell short.
But where does the 7:45 p.m. MST showdown on the blue turf, to be televised nationally by Fox Sports 1, rank among the most important games in BYU football program history?