Foxborough, Mass. • Fullback Brayden El-Bakri kept staring at the scoreboard high above LaVell Edwards Stadium, wondering when BYU’s offense was going to bust out like it had the previous week against UNLV and bury the visiting Minutemen of the University of Massachusetts.
It never happened, and the Cougars were handed perhaps their most embarrassing home loss, a 16-10 disaster, in a half-century. It was the lowest point in an eventual 4-9 season filled with lows. Many believe the abysmal offensive performance led to offensive coordinator Ty Detmer losing his job.
“That was a real big bummer,” El-Bakri said a year later.