Bryan Leonard's Mountain West Conference Game of the Year!
BYU at Air Force

The Cougars simply aren't getting enough respect here in a series they have dominated. In the Bronco Mendenhall era BYU has beaten the Falcons by margins of 17, 14, 25, 19 and 21 points. Also in the Mendenhall era the Cougars are 20-8 straight up on the road. BYU lost a lot of talent in the offseason but this is a program that recruits extremely well. They surprised a lot of late money bettors last week knocking off road favorite Washington 23-17 in Provo. The last four years BYU has posted an incredible 29-3 straight up mark in the Mountain West Conference. There is simply no way they should be in this price range here.

Air Force really struggled out of the gate last week hosting Northwestern State. They only led at the half 24-21 before wearing out the weaker opponent later on with their physical running game. But that won't be the case this week as the Falcons have really struggled against this BYU defense. Over the last four meetings Air Force has averaged 16.3 ppg against BYU. Compare that to the 27.4 ppg they averaged overall the past four seasons. That's a huge differential and it's even higher if we take out the BYU games from that equation. Air Force has dropped their last six games in this series by 14 or more points. This BYU program hasn't dropped off anywhere close to that degree.

PLAY BYU