PROVO — It took almost a half of football for BYU to obliterate Louisiana Tech with the exact recipe used in blowouts of Navy and Troy: A precision, well-balanced offense backed by a tough, stingy, bully defense.
Yes, defense.
No. 22 BYU beat Louisiana Tech 45-14 Friday night. It wasn’t that close.
Nine months after upsetting Miami 14-0 in the Independence Bowl, Louisiana Tech coach Skip Holtz watched BYU dismantle his high-scoring, well-coached Bulldog offense in an empty stadium far from home in a game nobody predicted this summer would ever be played.
Yes, BYU’s offense, led by Zach Wilson, put on a clinic, but an emerging story in this young season is how consistent BYU’s defense has played.