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How would you rank BYU's opponents thus far? ...

by SenorCougar · 10/2/2016

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SenorCougar
In my opinion, my ranking (from top to bottom) is as follows:



1. West Virginia

2. UCLA

3. Toledo

4. Utah

5. Arizona



I could flip UCLA and Toledo, but feel if those two played, UCLA might prevail. What do others think? How do you rank our past opponents?
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SpiffCoug
I think we'd be 5-0 if we played everyone over again. But Utah has been the best team we've played.



Utah

West Virginia

Toledo

UCLA

Arizona
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BoiseBYU
If we play UT again healthy AND with Tuiloma back, we win that one
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Screamineagle
Another interesting thing to think about. Who is most likely to win out and in my opinion that is Toledo.As far as strength of opponents so far I am with Spiff on this.
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Guest
I'm afraid if we played everyone over again we may end up 1-4.
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runbyu1
I'm going:



UCLA

West Virginia

Utah

Toledo

Arizona



Honestly it's hard though because all opponents have been pretty solid and close thus far.
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Mars
SenorCougar wrote:
In my opinion, my ranking (from top to bottom) is as follows:



1. West Virginia

2. UCLA

3. Toledo

4. Utah

5. Arizona



I could flip UCLA and Toledo, but feel if those two played, UCLA might prevail. What do others think? How do you rank our past opponents?

This matches mine exactly. And I'd have us just above Arizona, due to poor defensive depth.
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BroncoBot
What's nice, is that every team we've lost to has been solid. And BYU was right there in every game. We have no "headscratcher" loss so far.



If BYU starts 3-3 this year, that would be quite the accomplishment...
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BroncoBot
Mars wrote:
In my opinion, my ranking (from top to bottom) is as follows:



1. West Virginia

2. UCLA

3. Toledo

4. Utah

5. Arizona



I could flip UCLA and Toledo, but feel if those two played, UCLA might prevail. What do others think? How do you rank our past opponents?

This matches mine exactly. And I'd have us just above Arizona, due to poor defensive depth.

Agreed. So far, this would be my ranking as well. Hope to see UCLA, Toledo and WVU clean the clocks of their respective conferences.
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frdbtr
BroncoBot wrote:
SenorCougar wrote:
In my opinion, my ranking (from top to bottom) is as follows:



1. West Virginia

2. UCLA

3. Toledo

4. Utah

5. Arizona



I could flip UCLA and Toledo, but feel if those two played, UCLA might prevail. What do others think? How do you rank our past opponents?

This matches mine exactly. And I'd have us just above Arizona, due to poor defensive depth.

Agreed. So far, this would be my ranking as well. Hope to see UCLA, Toledo and WVU clean the clocks of their respective conferences.


sorry, the Washington Huskies are going to clean the clocks of the pac12 this year. That is the best Huskies team I have seen since the 91 national champions.
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YNot
frdbtr wrote:
sorry, the Washington Huskies are going to clean the clocks of the pac12 this year. That is the best Huskies team I have seen since the 91 national champions.


Have we come full circle? Washington, Miami, Tennessee, and Michigan are in the top-10. Colorado has a ranked football team again.



This means that BYU should be a regular in the top-25 within the next couple of years....
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frdbtr
YNot wrote:
sorry, the Washington Huskies are going to clean the clocks of the pac12 this year. That is the best Huskies team I have seen since the 91 national champions.


Have we come full circle? Washington, Miami, Tennessee, and Michigan are in the top-10. Colorado has a ranked football team again.



This means that BYU should be a regular in the top-25 within the next couple of years....


I wouldn't complain about that :D
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TheDean
SenorCougar wrote:
In my opinion, my ranking (from top to bottom) is as follows:



1. West Virginia

2. UCLA

3. Toledo

4. Utah

5. Arizona



I could flip UCLA and Toledo, but feel if those two played, UCLA might prevail. What do others think? How do you rank our past opponents?


My ranking would be from toughest to weakest:



1. UCLA

2. Arizona

3. Utah

4. West Virginia

5. Toledo



Why? Because BYU pushed both West Virginia and Toledo around offensively and had BYU's defense been healthy and had played as aggressive and tough as they did in the first 3 games both games would have been blowouts by BYU.



UCLA was the toughest defense by far and had the best offense of the first 3, but BYU's offense didn't go up temp until the last drive of the game and if they had played up tempo the whole 4th qtr BYU wins it.



Utah and Arizona were laughers as BYU's defense shut them down and had BYU kicked the PAT instead of going for 2 against Utah and gone to OT BYU probably wins it and would be 2-0 after the first 2 games. Arizona's D is far better than either West Virginia or Toledo's D.



Michigan St after this week will be sitting at # 1 as they will be the toughest team BYU will play all season.
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TheDean
TheDean wrote:
In my opinion, my ranking (from top to bottom) is as follows:



1. West Virginia

2. UCLA

3. Toledo

4. Utah

5. Arizona



I could flip UCLA and Toledo, but feel if those two played, UCLA might prevail. What do others think? How do you rank our past opponents?


My ranking would be from toughest to weakest:



1. UCLA

2. Arizona

3. Utah

4. West Virginia

5. Toledo



Why? Because BYU pushed both West Virginia and Toledo around offensively and had BYU's defense been healthy and had played as aggressive and tough as they did in the first 3 games both games would have been blowouts by BYU.



UCLA was the toughest defense by far and had the best offense of the first 3, but BYU's offense didn't go up temp until the last drive of the game and if they had played up tempo the whole 4th qtr BYU wins it.



Utah and Arizona were laughers as BYU's defense shut them down and had BYU kicked the PAT instead of going for 2 against Utah and gone to OT BYU probably wins it and would be 2-0 after the first 2 games. Arizona's D is far better than either West Virginia or Toledo's D.



I also think UCLA, Arizona, and Utah would beat West Virginia and Toledo hands down which is why I placed them above both West Virginia and Toledo.



Michigan St after this week will be sitting at # 1 as they will be the toughest team BYU will play all season.
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