GRR: BYU
BYU hosts Cal today and it's a bit of an unexpected look for this matchup.
Originally expected to be a massive clash between highly-ranked college teams. It's less of that now because Cal has sent a different lineup to Provo.
BYU defeated Central Washington 24-23 over the weekend to shake up the rankings and the D1A landscape.
After close losses to Life in the fall and Saint Mary's in the winter, the Cougars managed to hold off a CWU team that has beaten Saint Mary's and Army.
BYU won a very competitive clash with Arizona 38-18 in the second match of their tour into the desert.
Arizona led early from a snipey try through scrumhalf George O'Brien and then a penalty goal from fullback Matteo Berenger. An offsides penalty against Arizona led to BYU's chance to answer. They took the lineout and prop Billy Tenney popped off the back of the maul to score.
BYU won the first game of their two-match tour of Arizona, beating Grand Canyon University 64-12 Thursday night in Phoenix.
Tayson Hammer scored four tries in the game and logged a total of 34 points in the Cougars' victory.
For GCU, this was a quick turnaround after dropping a similar score—69-7— to Cal on Saturday.
BYU swept their two-game trip to Colorado and are in a commanding position in the Rocky Mountain D1A Conference.
The Cougars defeated Colorado 41-5 on Thursday night and Colorado State 86-9 on Friday.
BYU Head Coach Steve St. Pierre joked that this harkened back to the two-game playoff weekends of years past.