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👀 BYU
2025 Total Reported TV Viewers in West thru Dec 27
42.89M—Oregon
37.56M—BYU
30.37M—USC
24.84M—Washington
20.52M—Colorado
18.73M—UCLA
14.79M—Utah
13.02M—Boise St
12.84M—ASU
7.99M—New Mexico
7.83M—Arizona
9.22M—Cal
6.21M—Stanford
6.12M—WSU
5.90M—SJSU
5.89M—Ore St
4.61M—Hawai'i
3.77M—Fresno St
3.75M—UNLV
3.38M—Utah St
2.98M—Air Force
2.41M—Nevada
2.05M—SDSU
1.46M—Wyoming
1.12M—CSU
Kendall Hulet retweeted
BYU defeated that 9-4 TCU team, who just beat #16 USC, by 31 points… when TCU had their starting QB.
11-1 in the regular season with their only loss coming on the road to a Top 5 opponent.
These bowl results are making BYU’s already egregious snub from the CFP even worse by the day. All because the SEC (2-5 in bowls) needed 5 bids.
Kendall Hulet retweeted
Objectively, how do you defend this:
Miami (10–2)
– ESPN SOS: 45
– ESPN SOR: 14
– Did not play for a conference championship
– Losses: Two 8–4 teams (SMU, Louisville)
BYU (11–2)
– ESPN SOS: 22
– ESPN SOR: 9
– Played in the Big 12 championship
– Losses: No. 4 Texas Tech on the road & in the Big 12 title game
Notre Dame (10–2)
– ESPN SOS: 44
– ESPN SOR: 13
– Did not play for a conference championship
– Losses: Miami (who lost to two 8–4 teams) & No. 7 Texas A&M
Kendall Hulet retweeted
We will not let Notre Dame unethically steal it from us
We will not let ESPN Propaganda win the day
We will not let the Committee rob us.
When fairness and honestly are nowhere to be found BYU will take matters into their on hands and take it on the field.
Kendall Hulet retweeted
Congrats to the finalist well deserved and earned, but how does BYU’s 11-1 TRUE freshman QB Bear Bachmeier get left off this list?!?!?
Kendall Hulet retweeted
Having BYU behind ND makes college football figure skating or gymnastics. You don’t even need to play the games. It’s so dumb. BYU plays in a power conference. Tougher schedule. They have less losses and better wins. Ruins the whole sport. #provodave #byuscrewed
Kendall Hulet retweeted
The committee made it abundantly clear it’s not merit based. The playoffs is just the cool kids club and BYU isn’t perceived as a cool kid. ND and the SEC are the cool kids. The whole thing is a sham
If you're going to penalize a 1-loss Power Conference team for a weak strength of schedule... BYU's SOS is better than Ole Miss and Notre Dame.
If you're going to penalize a team for not having the strongest power ratings (which incorporate prior year's history and recruiting rankings)... BYU's FPI is higher than Oklahoma's.
If you're going to penalize a team for a non-competitive / bad loss... Alabama lost by 14 to a team with a losing record and Miami lost to two unranked teams.
If you're going to use strength-of-record like you indicated you would, BYU's SOR is the second highest of teams 6-12.
BYU also (1) made its conference championship game and (2) if you sum up the wins of the teams it has beaten, it is THIRD in the country. It is hard to win games and BYU has beaten a lot of teams with a lot of wins.
This. Makes. No. Sense.
The @CFBPlayoff should be ashamed of itself. It has literally contorted itself into a pretzel to avoid putting BYU where it should be ranked (somewhere between 6th - 9th).
RT to get the info out there. They need to feel pressure.
Kendall Hulet retweeted
If you're going to penalize a 1-loss Power Conference team for a weak strength of schedule... BYU's SOS is better than Ole Miss and Notre Dame.
If you're going to penalize a team for not having the strongest power ratings (which incorporate prior year's history and recruiting rankings)... BYU's FPI is higher than Oklahoma's.
If you're going to penalize a team for a non-competitive / bad loss... Alabama lost by 14 to a team with a losing record and Miami lost to two unranked teams.
If you're going to use strength-of-record like you indicated you would, BYU's SOR is the second highest of teams 6-12.
BYU also (1) made its conference championship game and (2) if you sum up the wins of the teams it has beaten, it is THIRD in the country. It is hard to win games and BYU has beaten a lot of teams with a lot of wins.
This. Makes. No. Sense.
The @CFBPlayoff should be ashamed of itself. It has literally contorted itself into a pretzel to avoid putting BYU where it should be ranked (somewhere between 6th - 9th).
RT to get the info out there. They need to feel pressure.
Kendall Hulet retweeted
Looking back at the LAST 30 YEARS, no 1-loss P4/P5 team has ever been ranked as low as BYU at #11 in the AP poll at the end of the regular season
All other year's lowest-ranked 1-loss teams ended with an AP ranking between #3-10, & there's a strong correlation between better AP ranking and better SOS... except for BYU, who showed better than average figures for all schedule strength data points, yet somehow received the lowest ranking on record
I utilized the weekly poll data from the College Poll Archive site and used the Colley Matrix for SOS data since it's the only one I could find with historical weekly data
I stopped the search at 1996 due to the data getting irregular with many "ties" in the records prior to that year and the confusion between the pre-Big12 conferences
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Kendall Hulet retweeted
Honest thought
Penn State’s offer to Kalani Sitake should’ve resulted in a surefire hiring that the other program couldn’t even think to match
Personally.. in this situation, I think almost every program would’ve let their HC walk and understood why…
BYU’s really the lone exception. A bunch of sports crazed maniacs who want nothing more than to win but do it with their family.
It took an entire community to completely flip the script here and give them a chance at retaining their HC after a monster and “desperate” PSU offer.
I respect BYU’s hunger, drive, passion, and sports community so so much. A lot of athletics programs could learn a thing or two from these guys.
Kendall Hulet retweeted
Playoffs scenario is very simple. Regardless of what happens in championship games the final 2 teams in the playoffs should be BYU and Alabama. If BYU wins Big 12 put Texas Tech in there. Thats it. End of story. Anything else is wrong and an injustice
Kendall Hulet retweeted
For teams #6-13 in CFP Rankings, below charts each team's schedule difficulty. Using composite ratings, more difficult games are higher and easier games lower on the chart (accounting for rating + location of game). Additional details in comments.
jthomanalytics.com/football/…
Kendall Hulet retweeted
| @RGIII | gave strong remarks on the postgame broadcast about #BYUFootball making the CFP:
“BYU should be in the college football playoff regardless of what happens in Big 12 title game if they were to play Texas Tech again. Winning should matter in the regular season. It should.”
#BYU #Big12 #CFP #ESPNTheFan #GoCougs
Kendall Hulet retweeted
The Cougars have put the Big 12 on notice the last two seasons 👏👏
@BYUfootball | @byubarstool
Kendall Hulet retweeted
Provo Dave is fighting for BYU to be in the playoffs...
"Put some respect on BYU's name! Put some respect on @cosmo_cougar, he's a great performer. This team deserves to be in the playoffs, end of story." - @stoolpresidente