The Brigham Young Cougars faced many of the same challenges coming in to the 2010 football season as they did in 2007. Coming off an 11-2 season, BYU opened the season at home against a Pac-10 team. The Cougars had to replace their three year starting quarterback, their all-time leading rusher, and their all-conference tight end. This has been pointed out by many already. Now that one game is in the books, let's compare how the first game went in 2007 and 2010. 2007: BYU 20, Arizona 72010: BYU 23, Washington 17The important thing here is that BYU won in both 2007 and 2010. BYU did limit Arizona to less point in 2007, but that team did have less to replace on defense. 2007: Total yards-3922010: Total yards-408Just as the team scored slightly more in 2010, the offense had slightly more yardage on Saturday.2007: Passing yards-2882010: Passing yards-262Max Hall threw for 26 more yards three years ago than Riley Nelson and Jake Heaps did combined. Hall was more accurate (26-39) than ...
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