Start your day with BYU football: Cougars roll Texas in 2013

One of BYU football’s biggest wins in recent memory came in 2013 over the Texas Longhorns. The Cougars carved up the nation’s No. 15 team.

The last time Taysom Hill played a full season for BYU football was in 2013. It wasn’t a great year for the Cougars, but there was a real highlight.

In Week Two, the No. 15 Texas Longhorns came to Provo.

And got wrecked.

Leading up to kickoff, Provo had what I can only describe as a monsoon. The sky became pitch black, thunder cracked, and the wind howled. The skies opened and everyone in the stands started getting drenched by a downpour.

I remember sitting in the stands. Then managing to hide out inside the stadium and eventually buying a dry shirt at the team store.

BYU football has lost in Week One at Virginia. It was a game the Cougars should’ve won. So no one felt great about the Longhorns.

Well, almost no one. The Cougars clearly felt great.

They ran for a school-record 550 yards and shellacked Texas 40-21. It was the first BYU win over a ranked opponent since 2009.

Taysom Hill rushed for 259 yards and three scores, and Jamaal Williams added 182 yards. Paul Lasike added 87 yards on the ground and Cody Hoffman had 63 yards receiving.

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Texas never made any adjustments to what BYU was trying to do, but Mack Brown did after the game. He fired his defensive coordinator Manny Diaz the following week.

“We expected to run on them,” Hill said in a press release. “We didn’t expect to break the school record. It was working and we were able to move the ball really efficiently on the ground. There was no need to go away from it.”

Well said, Taysom. Well said.