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

[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: BYU can be found here.

[BlueK]

Originally Posted by 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: BYU can be found here.

It's a lot harder to schedule 12 games instead of 3 or 4. Major scheduling challenges for an independent shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. We have the most difficult scheduling task of any team in the country. Even Notre Dame has it much easier because they're an ACC member. The only thing is they play 6 ACC games instead of the 9 everyone else there does. But after that they know they'll always play USC, Stanford and Navy. So really, they are only looking for 3 games a year like everyone else.