2015 Football Previews – (Independent) – Cougars
The Cougars started the 2014 season a perfect 4-0, and were ranked as high as No. 18, before it all came undone.
The Cougars started the 2014 season a perfect 4-0, and were ranked as high as No. 18, before it all came undone.
The Brigham Young Cougars are thriving away from the Mountain West Conference, and with the new autonomy structure in college football, BYU is positioned well going forward. But they will be facing a tough decision soon as to whether or not it would be best for the program to join one of the Power Five conferences, or remain independent.
The BYU Cougars are poised to make a pretty penny as an Independent, but they’ll need to be close to perfect if they hope to make a BCS bowl game.
After the conference shuffling in the Mountain West this past year, Brigham Young finds itself aligned with no one in a brave new world in 2011.