Rooting Guide Week 9

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Rooting Guide Week 9

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The goals for BYU are:

1. To win the National Championship (Killed by a herd of cows)
2. To go to a NY6 bowl game (Killed by Knights in Orlando)
3. To achieve the highest ranking possible (Over the last 35 years, every 3 loss or fewer BYU team has finished ranked in a major poll)
4. To win as many games as possible
5. To be bowl eligible and play the best bowl team possible
6. To be better than Utah

If you want to see these goals accomplished here is your rooting guide:

A. Cheer for BYU. Duh.

BYU over Boise State

B. Cheer for the team playing Utah. If we need help from Utah in any way then it is not worth having.

USC over Utah

C. Cheer for BYU’s opponents. This helps SOS.

UConn (1-5) over East Carolina
Cal (4-3) over Oregon
Texas (3-4) over Kansas St.
Virginia (4-3) over North Carolina
Utah St. (4-3) over UNLV (2-5)
UCF (4-2) over Temple
Nevada (4-3) over Hawaii

D. Cheer for teams playing ranked teams. If both teams are ranked cheer for the team that if they win will give more votes to BYU (Of course rules A-C trump rule D).

BYU current rank NR AP NR Coaches

Kentucky over #1 Mississippi St.
#3 Mississippi over #24 LSU
Tennessee over #4 Alabama
South Carolina over #5 Auburn
Michigan over #8 Michigan St.
Texas Tech over #10 TCU
Penn St. over #13 Ohio St.
Washington over #14 ASU
Washington St. over #15 Arizona
Rutgers over #16 Nebraska
Syracuse over #21 Clemson
Oklahoma St. over #22 West Virginia
Florida Atlantic over #23 Marshall
Colorado over #25 UCLA
Illinois over #24 Minnesota (coaches poll)

Others receiving votes:

Wyoming over Colorado St.
Vanderbilt over Missouri
Oregon St. over Stanford
Maryland over Wisconsin

E. Cheer for our Opponents’ opponents unless they are playing our opponents. This no longer matters. We are now focusing on our bowl game we want to play the best opponent we can. Root for the program that gives us the best bowl matchup.

The AAC bowl selection order is:

1. Playoff or NY6 bowl (if qualified)
2. Birmingham
3. St. Pete
4. Miami

Therefore we are rooting for:

Cincinnati over South Florida
Memphis over SMU

F. Cheer for the non P5 over P5 because it is fun

UAB over Arkansas


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