Hugh Carey, Deseret News
News that BYU has scheduled Wyoming in 2022 and 2024 isn’t earth shattering. But they’re football games. That isn’t a given when you’re an independent.
More interesting is that the Cougars are chipping away at better late-season schedules.
BYU will never book a full slate of high-level opponents as an independent. That might be a good thing, considering it barely won any games last year. Yet even when the Cougars are bad, they’re a team a lot of marquee programs don’t want to risk. Better to play someone with a lesser pedigree.