Madison, Wis. • For Kalani Sitake, last season’s 40-6 loss to Wisconsin in front of more than 61,000 fans — a thousand or so decked out in red — and a national television audience in Provo represented one of the lowest points of his second year as BYU’s football coach.
Not only did the Cougars lose by 34 points, they were dominated in the trenches on both sides of the ball by the rugged Big Ten team, and winning those matchups was one of the former fullback’s stated goals when he replaced Bronco Mendenhall in 2016.