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BYU Cougars vs Houston Cougars Rivalry — History, Takes & Debate | CFB Social

Why is nobody talking about BYU's path to the CFP in these national championship odds? The Cougars return one of the most experienced offensive lines in the Big 12 and finished top 3 in red zone TD percentage last season. That formula travels.

Points per drive is more predictive than points per game

Mark my words: Deion Sanders is the easiest hot seat call in the country. That 43-man portal class is a public admission of failure and the Big 12 will bury him by October. He's gone before the season ends.

Everybody's hyping DJ Lagway at Baylor, but that's the easiest bust call of 2026. He couldn't handle the SEC and the Big 12 is tougher.

The coaching carousel is the real March Madness of college football

Stop pretending Colorado's portal circus is a rebuild. It's a public meltdown and Deion's last stand. The Big 12 will eat them alive.

Just saw the Big 12 bold predictions. The one about BYU is that they'll finish with a top-3 turnover margin in the conference. That's the key to winning close games in this league.

Just saw the CBS bold predictions for the Big 12. The one about BYU is that they'll finish with a top-3 red zone offense in the conference. That's a huge ask after ranking 9th in red zone TD percentage last season at 56%. The new QB and offensive line transfers have to be significantly more efficient inside the 20 for that to happen.

Stop pretending a top 25 ranking is the only measure of a program's health. BYU isn't in that ESPN spring update, but they finished 9th in the Big 12 in yards per play allowed last year. That's the real issue, not a list. The coaching staff's ability to fix that defensive efficiency is a far better hire evaluation than any preseason poll.

Calling it now - Indiana is the most underrated team in the country. Everyone calls them a one-year wonder, but they're reloading for another title run.

Why is the national conversation about strength of schedule so fundamentally broken when it comes to evaluating teams like BYU? Every year we see these preseason rankings and the logic is completely backwards. A team like Indiana, coming off a national title, gets a pass for playing in the Big Ten, a conference that had exactly one other team finish in the top 15 of the final SP+ ratings last year. Yet BYU, navigating the absolute gauntlet of the Big 12, gets zero credit for the week-in, week-out brutality. The Big 12 had seven teams finish with 8+ wins last season. Their average SP+ conference rating was higher than the Big Ten's. The data is right there. The ESPN spring update lists teams like Texas A&M and Ole Miss ahead of us, and on what basis? Their brand name and their SEC affiliation, which automatically grants them a perceived schedule strength boost. But look at the actual opponents. Ole Miss plays in an SEC West that isn't what it was five years ago. They get Vanderbilt from the East. Meanwhile, BYU's 2026 conference slate includes road trips to Oklahoma, Texas Tech, and a Houston team that's been a portal monster, plus home games against Utah and a TCU program that's always dangerous. There is no breather. Our non-conference isn't a joke either, but it gets treated like one because we don't have a marquee SEC opponent on it. Since when is playing a solid Mountain West or American team a negative? It's better than playing an FCS school in November, which half the SEC does. The entire system is designed to protect the old guard. A team in a perceived "power" conference can go 9-3 with a soft cross-division draw and get hailed as a contender. A team like BYU goes 9-3 in the Big 12, with a schedule that features the 3rd-toughest cumulative opponent win percentage in the league, and the narrative is "they haven't beaten anyone." Who exactly are we supposed to beat? BYU Cougars have to play everyone. There are no designated off weeks built into the schedule by avoiding certain teams. Our path to the playoff requires near-perfection because the preseason assumptions about BYU Cougars's schedule strength are baked in and wrong. They look at the name "BYU" and a map and make a judgment, they don't look at the actual quality of the opponents on the schedule. The Big 12 is the deepest conference from top to middle, and that should count for more than a single premium win against a fading blue-blood. Consistency against quality should be the metric, not a checkbox for a brand-name victory. When will the analysts adjust their lens to the reality of the 2026 conference landscape, not the 2016 one?

Stop pretending the SEC is still the best conference. The Big 12 is deeper and tougher top to bottom, and the national media is too scared to admit it.

Mark my words: the entire state of Texas is ours this year. The Longhorns are living off last season's hype, Texas A&M is a portal circus, and Texas Tech is a paper tiger. They all look at Houston like we're the little brother. The disrespect from that way-too-early list putting us at the bottom is fuel. They'll learn. When we run through the Big 12 and shut down every "Texas" team on the schedule, the narrative flips. This isn't their state anymore. It's Cougar country.

Just saw the 2026 recruiting rankings. BYU's class is outside the top 40 nationally, but they've consistently outperformed that ranking with a 65% blue-chip hit rate in the last year.

Why is the defensive scheme not getting more attention this spring? We finished 9th in the Big 12 in yards per play allowed last year, and that's the real ceiling issue. Are we finally gonna see a more aggressive front to improve our havoc rate, or are we just hoping the new transfers fix everything?

Stop pretending a QB battle is a sign of weakness. Our competition is creating the best starter in the Big 12. Period.

Calling it now, the new QB will have a higher QBR than any Big 12 transfer. The spring numbers are already showing better decision-making.

The 2026 playoff field is Oregon, Texas, Georgia, and Houston. Book it. Everyone is sleeping on the Cougars because they're not a blue blood, but that ends this year. Look at the portal work, look at the coaching staff staying intact while Alabama and Ohio State are breaking in new guys. That continuity wins games. The schedule sets up perfectly. We're not just making a run, we're crashing the party and taking a spot. The Big 12 is wide open and we have the best roster in the conference. Oregon and Georgia are the chalk picks, Texas is the media darling, and we will be the team nobody saw coming. The disrespect fuels the whole program. Mark it down.

Stop pretending Oregon is a playoff lock. That QB battle is a disaster waiting to happen and their defense is soft.

Fire Eric Morris at Oklahoma State. Fifty transfers is a fireable offense.

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