Rooting Guide Week 6 Blue Cat

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The goals for BYU are:

1. To win as many games as possible
2. To be bowl eligible and play the best bowl opponent possible
3. To achieve the highest ranking possible

Ideal records:
BYU 10-3 Top 25 finish
Tennessee 9-4 SEC Champs
South Florida 9-4 AAC Champs
Toledo 12-1 MAC champs
Idaho St. 9-3 Big Sky champs
UMass 7-5
Washington 11-2 Pac-12 North Champs
USC 11-2 Pac-12 Champs.
SDSU 11-2. MWC champs.
Boise St 10-2
Utah St 10-3. Mountain West Mountain Champs
Liberty 8-4
Utah 4-8

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

A. Cheer for BYU. Duh.

BYE

B. Cheer for the team playing Utah. Because they’re Utah.

They’re hiding

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

#16 Boise St over UNLV
Idaho St over Montana
Liberty over New Mexico St
San Diego St over Colorado St
South Florida over UConn
Tennessee over #3 Georgia
Toledo over Western Michigan
UMass over Florida International
Utah St over #5 LSU
#15 Washington over Stanford

D. Cheer for teams playing teams ranked ahead of BYU. Cheer for unranked teams vs. ranked teams. If both teams are ranked ahead of BYU cheer for the higher ranked team (Of course rules A-C trump rule D).

#4 Ohio St over #25 Michigan St
Kansas over #6 Oklahoma
#7 Auburn over #10 Florida
Kent St over #8 Wisconsin
Bowling Green over #9 Notre Dame
West Virginia over #11 Texas
Purdue over #12 Penn St
Cal over #13 Oregon
Cincinnati over #18 UCF
#14 Iowa over #19 Michigan
Texas Tech over #21 Oklahoma St
Tulsa over #24 SMU

E. Cheer for our Opponents’ opponents unless they are playing our opponents. This helps our SOS in virtually every SOS calculation. Cheer for the team that our opponents have defeated or will likely defeat. All things being equal cheer for the more connected team (unless it violates rules A-D). For example, Colorado St is one of the most connected teams to our opponents as they play 4 games against them (Toledo, San Diego St, Boise St, Utah St). The number by the team indicates how connected they are.

Air Force (2) over Navy
Arizona (3) over Colorado
Army over Tulane
Buffalo (2) over Ohio
East Carolina over Temple
Eastern Michigan over Central Michigan
Georgia Tech over North Carolina
Marshall over Middle Tennessee
Memphis over Louisiana Monroe
New Mexico (3) over San Jose St
Northern Illinois (2) over Ball St
Northwestern over Nebraska
Rutgers (2) over Maryland
UAB over Rice
UCLA (3) over Oregon St
Vanderbilt over Ole Miss

H. It doesn’t matter

Baylor vs Kansas St
Boston College vs Louisville
Georgia Southern vs South Alabama
Illinois vs Minnesota
Iowa St vs TCU
Miami vs Virginia Tech
Pittsburgh vs Duke
UTSA vs UTEP
Western Kentucky vs Old Dominion