One way or another, the East Carolina football team will soar to great heights tonight in Provo, Utah.
Tackling BYU in high-elevation LaVell Edwards Stadium will be a challenge for the Pirates in tonight’s 7:30 EDT kickoff, but the first-ever football meeting between the schools will be a battle between 3-2 teams with early-season momentum.
It will be yet another showdown between quarterbacks who expected to be backups instead of starters this season, but all of them have long since embraced their new roles.
Brigham Young and 11th-year head coach Bronco Mendenhall lost starting QB Taysom Hill on opening night at Nebraska, but still pulled off an upset on a Hail Mary by Tanner Mangum.