Three years ago we were playing for a national championship and now CBS has BYU sitting on top of the Big 12 power rankings. I remember when we used to measure toughness by how many fourth quarter drives we could stop, not by how many portal guys we could collect. Gary Patterson built this program on grit and defensive pride, not on who had the flashiest NIL deal. This league we fought to keep together feels like it belongs to everybody but us now.