That sums up BYU’s football season in 2018, the third under coach Kalani Sitake and second that ended with a winning record and a bowl victory.
After going 9-4 in 2016 — the four losses were by a combined eight points — and beating Wyoming 24-21 in the Poinsettia Bowl before abruptly falling to 4-9 last year, the Cougars finished at 7-6 to put Sitake one win above .500 heading into what is believed to be the final year of the four-year contract he signed when he replaced Bronco Mendenhall in December of 2015.
So 2018 was a bit like 2016.