Despite back-to-back 10-win seasons, the Cougars still have a lot to prove. If nothing else, the 31-28 loss to UAB in the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, Louisiana leaves a sour taste in the mouths of most of BYU s returning players.
After Baylor Romney s first-half injury, it was up to Conover, the true freshman quarterback just over a year removed from a church mission to Paraguay who hadn t played a snap of competitive football in more than three years, to figure things out on the road for BYU.
PROVO The usual hum around the fax machine and celebratory videos from Twitter and Instagram were mooted on National Signing Day at BYU.
The Cougars, who signed 16 players during the early signing period just a few days before playing in the Boca Raton Bowl in December, didn t go out and get a lot of extra high school recruits between then and the traditional signing day Wednesday. That s good, since NCAA rules have marked most of the past year of the pandemic as a unique recruiting dead period, with on-campus visits barred and contact limited to phone calls, text messages, Zoom calls and social media.