2017 BYU Cougars Football Schedule

http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa-17/2017-byu-cougars-football-schedule.php



This is not official but it won't change.



Saturday Aug. 26 Vikings Portland State Vikings

LaVell Edwards Stadium, Provo, UT Time TBA



Saturday Sep. 2 Tigers LSU Tigers

NRG Stadium, Houston, TX Time TBA



Saturday Sep. 9 Utes Utah Utes

LaVell Edwards Stadium, Provo, UT Time TBA



Saturday Sep. 16 Badgers Wisconsin Badgers

LaVell Edwards Stadium, Provo, UT Time TBA



Saturday

Sep. 23 OFF (Tentative)



Friday Sep. 29 Aggies at Utah State Aggies

Maverik Stadium, Logan, UT Time TBA



Saturday Oct. 7 Broncos Boise State Broncos

LaVell Edwards Stadium, Provo, UT Time TBA



Saturday Oct. 14 Bulldogs at Mississippi State Bulldogs

Davis Wade Stadium, Starkville, MS Time TBA



Saturday Oct. 21 Pirates at East Carolina Pirates

Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, Greenville, NC Time TBA



Saturday Oct. 28 Spartans San Jose State Spartans

LaVell Edwards Stadium, Provo, UT Time TBA



Saturday Nov. 4 Bulldogs at Fresno State Bulldogs

Bulldog Stadium, Fresno, CA Time TBA



Saturday Nov. 11 Rebels at UNLV Rebels

Sam Boyd Stadium, Las Vegas, NV Time TBA



Saturday Nov. 18 Minutemen UMass Minutemen

LaVell Edwards Stadium, Provo, UT Time TBA



Saturday Nov. 25 Warriors at Hawaii Rainbow Warriors

That'll be weird to only have one home game in November...

4 ranked teams probably.



End-of-year FEI ranks for BYU's 2017 opponents



FCS - Portland State

8 - vs LSU

41 - Utah

6 - Wisconsin

86 - @ Utah State

19 - Boise

68 - @ Mississippi State

102 - @ East Carolina

122 - SJSU

113 - @ Fresno State

114 - @ UNLV

105 - UMass

111 @ Hawaii

My 2 biggest concerns for 2017 are LSU and Wisconsin. LSU is my #1 concern. In the Citrus Bowl #20 LSU stomped #13 Louisville 29-9.



I remember reading articles about Louisville's QB Lamar Jackson - calling him the best dual threat QB in the country. He won the Heisman and was a unanimous All American. Against LSU Jackson had 0 passing and 0 rushing TD's. LSU's defense is very, very good. It will be a tough away game for the Y.

Are we trying to start the season 1 and 3 again? Who schedules LSU, Utah, and Wisconsin back to back to back? We need to learn to spread these out

Yet September is when we can get P5 to play.

bamf3000 wrote:
Are we trying to start the season 1 and 3 again? Who schedules LSU, Utah, and Wisconsin back to back to back? We need to learn to spread these out

Well, you know AD Holmoe wasn't in a drunken stupor when he scheduled those games. So, I'm guessing he just had an epileptic seizure - was postictal and altered. That's my best guess .....

Let's lay off of Holmoe until the 49ers are done re-staffing. Don't want to give him any added incentive to take the GM or President job there.

bamf3000 wrote:
Are we trying to start the season 1 and 3 again? Who schedules LSU, Utah, and Wisconsin back to back to back? We need to learn to spread these out

Are you complaining about having a neutral site game followed by two really good home games? Thant's kooky talk!

ABYUFAN wrote:

Are we trying to start the season 1 and 3 again? Who schedules LSU, Utah, and Wisconsin back to back to back? We need to learn to spread these out

Are you complaining about having a neutral site game followed by two really good home games? Thant's kooky talk!

Ya, we saw how well that neutral site worked for Louisville....haha



Its more just playing 3 tough, physical teams in a row. I'd be happy to just be a 2-2 after those 4 games

snoscythe wrote:
Let's lay off of Holmoe until the 49ers are done re-staffing. Don't want to give him any added incentive to take the GM or President job there.

If he's still altered from his epileptic seizure he just might take the GM spot with the 49ers. A once fine organization is now a squalid sinking ship. Although, if Holmoe did go to the 49ers he could do America a great service and trade Kaepernick to a Canadian team. Suhweeet!

;)

I don't know what kind of sorcery people want Holmoe to pull to get these P5 teams to schedule an OOC trap game in the middle of conference play instead of in September, but I'd like to hear it. What's the pitch? How do you provide enough incentive for them to do that?

redneckjedi wrote:
I don't know what kind of sorcery people want Holmoe to pull to get these P5 teams to schedule an OOC trap game in the middle of conference play instead of in September, but I'd like to hear it. What's the pitch? How do you provide enough incentive for them to do that?

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redneckjedi wrote:
I don't know what kind of sorcery people want Holmoe to pull to get these P5 teams to schedule an OOC trap game in the middle of conference play instead of in September, but I'd like to hear it. What's the pitch? How do you provide enough incentive for them to do that?

Holmoe must learn the fine art of bribery. It's how the world turns. The Coug cheerleaders and Cosmo could sell cookies to raise seed money for the "P5 Bribery Fund."



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUrvNzA4IZQ



It's illegal ....... but it works. 8)

I dont think he needs to book them all later in the season for P5 opponents, but we couldnt buffer in some slightly worse teams in between those 3 games? I mean...even Portland St between the Utah and Wisconsin would give our guys a little bit of a breather

bamf3000 wrote:
I dont think he needs to book them all later in the season for P5 opponents, but we couldnt buffer in some slightly worse teams in between those 3 games? I mean...even Portland St between the Utah and Wisconsin would give our guys a little bit of a breather

I'd still rather play the FCS team as the opener to warm up for those P5 games.

Fido wrote:

I dont think he needs to book them all later in the season for P5 opponents, but we couldnt buffer in some slightly worse teams in between those 3 games? I mean...even Portland St between the Utah and Wisconsin would give our guys a little bit of a breather

I'd still rather play the FCS team as the opener to warm up for those P5 games.

Here's how I would like the first four weeks to have gone.



Week 0 LSU

Week 1 Portland St

Week 2 Utah

Week 3 Wisconsin



Playing LSU week 0 would have made it the most watched game of the year without any competition. And I don't think BYU's chanceds of winning would have changed much whether it was week 0 or week 1. The possibility of winning week 2 would be much better after playing Portland rather than traveling back from Houston after a game with LSU.

jvquarterback wrote:

bamf3000 wrote:
I dont think he needs to book them all later in the season for P5 opponents, but we couldnt buffer in some slightly worse teams in between those 3 games? I mean...even Portland St between the Utah and Wisconsin would give our guys a little bit of a breather

I'd still rather play the FCS team as the opener to warm up for those P5 games.

Here's how I would like the first four weeks to have gone.



Week 0 LSU

Week 1 Portland St

Week 2 Utah

Week 3 Wisconsin



Playing LSU week 0 would have made it the most watched game of the year without any competition. And I don't think BYU's chanceds of winning would have changed much whether it was week 0 or week 1. The possibility of winning week 2 would be much better after playing Portland rather than traveling back from Houston after a game with LSU.

Before you guys get too crazy, remember that to play a regular season game in "Week 0", or the last weekend of August, you either need to play in the Kickoff Classic, play against an FCS team, or get the NCAA to sanction and give you a waiver to play an FBS team, which they rarely do. So, to play LSU, you'd have to go grovel to the NCAA for something they only do once or twice every few years.



BYU only gets to play in Week 0 because it's against FCS Portland State.

The way I understand it new Hawaii rule says they can play anyone they want at home week 0. Not sure if BYU was the designated home team in Houston or not but they could have fixed that part.

BYU can play week 0 because of the Hawaii exception. They play at Hawaii in 2017 so they are allowed to schedule a 13th game (usually a home game to compensate for travel to Hawaii) and/or play a game in week 0 (to ensure they still get a reasonable bye week in their schedule).



The only reason we are facing LSU in week 1 is because we agreed to meet them in the Advocare Texas Kickoff in NRG Stadium in Houston. I doubt BYU had any ability to move that date 1) because they don't have that kind of influence over this event and 2) the venue is home of the Houston Texans and mid-August they begin their NFL pre-season games.