Can the BYU Cougars (6-6) really call the 2018 football season, which concludes Friday in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl (2 p.m. MST, ESPN) a success?
They can’t if they lose to Western Michigan at 2 p.m. MST as 12-point favorites in a game that will be televised nationally by ESPN.
You simply cannot lose to two Mid-American Conference teams in the span of two months — one at home, the other at a neutral site close to home — and say you were happy with how the season went.
So all the pressure is on BYU at Albertsons Stadium, along with the specter of posting the program’s second straight losing season.