The Cougars, led by tenth head coach Bronco Mendenhall, played their home games at LaVell Edwards Stadium.
The class includes 12 defensive and eight offensive players representing seven different states with seven recruits signing out of California, four from Utah, three from Texas, two from both Arizona and Kansas, and one each from Alabama and North Carolina.
5 BYU players were invited to the 2014 NFL Scouting Combine and will not return as they are graduating seniors.
Uani Unga, Eathyn Manumaleuna, and Daniel Sorensen round out the list of Cougars invited to the Combine.
[1] Football Media Day is scheduled to take place in June 2014 and will air live on BYUtv and have player interviews conducted through byutvsports.com.
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Instead they came with a mixed white and blue uniform, and the lack of rainy conditions allowed BYU to strike early and often in the running game.
While BYU sat out many players due to suspensions, including top Running back Jamaal Williams, BYU's defense kept UConn in must pass situations as they limited UConn's rushing game to 94 yards on31 carries, an average of 2.3 per play.
While Texas found itself unable to score often offensively, the defense pestered BYU and kept the game close until the third quarter.
BYU converted four possessions into four touchdowns ad turned a 6–0 game into 34–0 before Texas was finally able to score.
The highlight placed Hill on many people's Heisman watch list and caused Cougar fans to start calling Taysom Taysman.
Houston forced 3 turnovers which they converted into 17 points, 14 of which came in the second quarter and turned a 23–0 game into 23–15 as time expired in the first half.
The close game led a lot of people to speculate BYU wasn't truly a top 25 team.
Utah State countered by converting linebacker Nick Vigil into a running back.
Nick used strong runs around the outside to continually move the ball into BYU territory and give Utah State the short field.
Meanwhile, Darrell Garretson completed a QB rating above 230 as Utah State used long, sustained offensive drives to limit BYU's possessions.
The fumble began a series of bad stretches for BYU as on the next possession Taysom Hill suffered what appeared to be a fractured leg.
Early prognosis stated that is might be season ending, but additional details would be released Monday after X-Rays and an MRI were performed.
The Cougars entered the game with only 2 days of practice to get ready for the Knights and with 5 starters out with injury (Taysom Hill, Brayden Kearsley, Terenn Houk, Alan Fui, and Devin Leavitt).
[29] The injuries to Kearsley & Houk allowed UCF's defense to break through the line and pester BYU throughout, sacking Stewart twice forcing one fumble and picking the ball off once.
BYU's defense rose to the challenge and was able to stop UCF's offense from scoring on 8 consecutive possessions.
BYU also revealed that receiver Nick Kurtz will seek a redshirt this season and won't play in any of the remaining games.
[29] A conservative rush attack in the fourth quarter forced BYU into 4 consecutive three-and-outs, and UCF won 31–24.
Game Stats: Uniform combination: white helmet, white jersey, blue pants After a four-game losing streak the Cougars headed to Murfreesboro, TN to play their coldest game of the year to date.