... to any college football team.  For BYU it appears to be an incredibly fickled mistress this season.

BYU will set their schedule four to five years in advance.  In some rare cases they can change their schedule to accommodate a onetime event, like the Oklahoma game to start the season.  Schedule making is really a fine art form.

A schedule which is difficult on paper, against perennial powers, will give a big boast to teams to start the season.  This is evidenced in BYU’s quick rise up the polls in the first two weeks of the season. 

It would also explain the talk at the beginning of the season about the possibility of BYU getting to a BCS bowl game, even if they lost one of their b...

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