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Kings Of Kaos, Week 4: BYU Enters The Chaosdome!

by Chaos Index · 9/29/2015

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Chaos Index
It all made so much sense.



The Cougars have always longed to be power players. Even that 1984 national championship didn't really stamp them as that, and now Utah is playing in the Pac-12, and they're not. Hence, the move to independent status.



With the inception of the College Football Playoff, unless you're initials are Notre Dame, independent status can only mean one thing: being stuck in the limbo between Power 5 and Group of 5 status. (There's a Jackson 5 joke in here somewhere, but whatever.)



The solution was obvious: schedule big, schedule hard, schedule fast. A noble thought, sure, but maybe the dude doing the scheduling should have considered a fourth piece of the puzzle: schedule balanced.



You're no doubt familiar with the early results.
  • A thrilling, Hail Mary win over Nebraska in Lincoln.

    Fourth and 7 with :54 to against Boise State, and this happened.

    Week Three and another thrilling last-minute come-from-behind win. Wait a minute, the winning team in that video is wearing a lighter shade of blue. What's up with that? Why that was enough to make a good Mormon completely lose his, uh, stuff. Still, 2-1 with the loss to a top-10 team ain't bad.

    An unmitigated disaster in Week Four, but even that was kind of amazing, if only because it was the last thing anyone expected.


So, scheduling dude, let's talk. Kudos to you for setting your guys up with a serious schedule – it's impressive. Just one thing: y'know those back-to-back games with Wagner and San Jose State? Maybe you could've broken those up a bit. Oh sure, teams in conferences have commitments to keep, but everybody you're playing belongs to a conference.



I see you've worked in some balance for Week Five. Connecticut – good call! They're awful. The coach is 4-12 during his stay there.



Just one thing: have you heard the letters BIA?



The rest of Kings Of Kaos can be found at http://chaosindex.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/kings-of-kaos-week-4-by.
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Cougs_Rule
Unfortunately your article hits on my biggest concern--UConn's strong Defense mixed with the overarching belief that the world has that UCONN is a horrible team. This has the makings for another Cougar loss given the absolute devastation that was Ann Arbor; mixed with an offense that looked like its freshman qb was not the only freshman--including the sophomoric OC.

I think CougarTown is in for a much more difficult game than it should have and the UCONN coach should be licking his chops for some payback on an injured and vulnerable football team who could get caught off guard by a "terrible" opponent coming to the Home turf that always produces an "advantage." Right? #upsetalert. #notallthatandabagofchips

C'mon Cougs! :evil:
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Chaos Index
Agreed. Sometimes, the cupcakes on your schedule tend to be a lot less cupcakey than you expected.
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BYULV
Chaos Index wrote:
Agreed. Sometimes, the cupcakes on your schedule tend to be a lot less cupcakey than you expected.


Signed, Oregon
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