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BYU led the nation in passing offense, total offense, and scoring offense during the regular season.
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BYU and led
McMahon led BYU to victory against CSU, accounting for 112 passing yards, 80 rushing yards, and two touchdowns.
In the 1980 Holiday Bowl, the Cougars faced an SMU team led by star running backs Craig James and Eric Dickerson, and the Mustangs built a 45 – 25 lead over BYU with just four minutes left in the game.
In 1996, a group of students from Brigham Young University, led by BYU professor Dennis Martin, burned bags of Tostitos tortilla chips in a bonfire and called for a boycott of all Tostitos products.
Four years later, BYU, led by their coach, LaVell Edwards, won the national championship in the Holiday Bowl by defeating the University of Michigan Wolverines, coached by Bo Schembechler, 24 – 17.
They dedicated China for the preaching of the gospel, traveled to Hawaii where McKay first had the vision that led to the founding of BYU – Hawaii many years later, and visited Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand and Palestine.
He led BYU to a Western Athletic Conference ( WAC ) Championship, the team's first since 1985.
In that contest, BYU fell behind 45 – 17 before Detmer led a comeback.
The game served as a homecoming for BYU star Jimmer Fredette, who had led Glens Falls High School to the New York state championship game, held at this facility, in 2007.
In his senior season, Araújo led BYU in scoring ( 18. 4 points per game ), rebounding ( 10. 1 rebounds per game ), steals ( 43 total ), and blocked shots ( 25 ).
BYU and nation
The BYU Cougars ended the 1984 season as the only undefeated and untied team in the nation as a member of the Western Athletic Conference.
The BYU Testing Center, the largest college testing center in the nation, is located in the Heber J.
In 2008, BYU made its fourth straight appearance ranked as the # 16 team in the nation and faced off against the Arizona Wildcats who made their first bowl appearance since 1998.
The average starting salary for BYU Law graduates in private practice is $ 120, 500, placing BYU at # 18 in the nation for highest post-grad compensation.
BYU and passing
With Young at quarterback, BYU set an NCAA record by averaging 584. 2 yards of total offense per game, with 370. 5 of those yards coming from Young's passing and rushing.
BYU broke over 100 NCAA records for passing and total offense during Edwards ' tenure.
Including statistics from bowl games, Detmer amassed 16, 206 passing yards and 127 touchdown passes at BYU.
BYU and offense
The highpoint of the BYU offense was a NCAA Division I-A national football championship in 1984 and a Heisman Trophy for Ty Detmer in 1990.
Several coaches and players associated with BYU's football program had success with this offense at BYU and elsewhere, including Mike Holmgren, Andy Reid, Brian Billick, Ted Tollner, Doug Scovil, Norm Chow, Jim McMahon, Steve Young, Ty Detmer, and Steve Sarkisian.
During his four-year tenure at BYU, Holmgren not only helped coach the team's potent offense to a national championship in 1984, but in that period mentored and developed two of BYU's future NFL quarterbacks, Steve Young and Robbie Bosco, and one future NFL head coach, Andy Reid.
He served as the captain for the BYU offense and started all 13 games at left tackle as a junior.
BYU and total
BYU has played in a total of 11 Holiday Bowls, more than any other team.
BYU and scoring
In the first game in the newly expanded stadium, Alabama defeated BYU 38 – 31, with Shaun Alexander scoring an Alabama single-game record five touchdowns in the win.
BYU won their conference semi-final against Southern California Seahorses 2-1, with goals from David Clark and Jacob Cavanaugh, and only lost the conference final to Orange County Blue Star on penalties, after scoring two goals in the final 4 minutes to tie 2-2 in regulation time.
Once again, Blue Star were the league's free-scoring entertainers, scoring more than four goals on six different occasions, including a 6-2 road victory over San Diego Gauchos, and two 5-0 demolitions of BYU Cougars and Nevada Wonders.
Surge lost five of their opening nine games of the season, going down 4-0 at Tacoma Tide, 5-1 at BYU Cougars, and 5-0 at home to Abbotsford Mariners, scoring just four goals in response, and were effectively eliminated from playoff contention by the middle of June.
They put another 5 past Springfield in their very next game, beat Colorado Springs Blizzard 5-1 on the road, and were scoring at will throughout July: 4-1 over BYU Cougars, 5-4 over Kansas City Brass, 6-1 in the return game over Colorado Springs Blizzard, and 4-0 over Sioux Falls Spitfire on the final day of the regular season.
BYU and during
The 2007 Las Vegas Bowl featured a rematch between Mountain West Champion BYU and UCLA who defeated BYU during the regular season.
An unassisted triple play occurred during an NCAA game between the BYU Cougars and the SDSU Aztecs in May 2011.
In 1974, Holland was appointed Dean of Religious Education at Brigham Young University ; during this period of time, he was the youngest dean at BYU.
He also served as co-ordinator of veterans affairs for BYU during this time.
Detmer became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during his junior year at BYU.
The Gators returned to the NCAA tournament during the 2009 – 2010 season, but lost in the first round to the BYU Cougars in double overtime.
In the 2010 season during a post-game handshake line, Alford had a confrontation with a BYU forward player in which Alford called him an " extremely vulgar " name, according to the Wall Street Journal.
She learned the piano and traveled on three USO tours to Alaska, Europe, the Mediterranean and Asia as an accompanist during her college years at Brigham Young University ( BYU ), where she earned a bachelor's degree in history, with an emphasis in American religious history.
He was subsequently found clean during tests while a player at BYU, and the NBA did not test players for steroid use .< ref >
BYU and regular
In McMahon's senior season ( 1981 ), despite missing two games due to injuries, he passed for 3, 555 yards and 30 touchdowns in the regular season, again leading BYU to a WAC championship.
As the # 4 ranked team at the end of the regular season, the University of Washington Huskies were offered a slot against BYU in the Holiday Bowl ; Washington declined, preferring instead to play in the more lucrative Orange Bowl where they beat # 2 Oklahoma to complete a Pac-10 sweep of New Year's Day bowls ( USC Rose and UCLA Fiesta ).
Despite an impressive 3-1 win over Ogden in their final regular season game, BYU finished a distant 8th in the standings, 20 points behind divisional champs Ventura County Fusion.
Unfortunately for Detmer and BYU, the season ended in disastrous fashion: the Cougars lost 59-28 in their final regular season game against Hawaii, then lost 65-14 to Texas A & M in the 1990 Holiday Bowl.
The 2003 regular season included some stunning results, including a pair of 5-1 victories over Fresno Fuego and San Diego Gauchos, a 5-2 demolition of Nevada Wonders, and a breathtaking 5-4 win over BYU Cougars which featured a hat trick by Ryan Coiner.
On October 18, 1996, the day before the Utes victory over Tulsa, Fuamatu-Ma ' afala underwent knee surgery, and missed the next three games, returning to play in the regular season finale against the BYU Cougars.
With that win and a final regular season record of 7 – 5, Arizona accepted a bid from to the Las Vegas Bowl to face BYU.
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