BYU football: No place to run, hide against LSU Tigers

BYU football lost to LSU. And the 27-0 score doesn’t begin to show how thoroughly the Cougars were dominated.

BYU football couldn’t quite hang with the LSU Tigers.

I’ll take my award for understatement of the decade now.

It was like being a salmon swimming upstream. A stream full of of sharks with razor blades for fins and active sonar. Like fighting Floyd Mayweather with one eye and a bad back.

Usually, there’s something to gain from a loss. Either a point of correction for improvement, or some small silver lining, or something to build on. A moment of good, at least.

There was no part of BYU’s showing on the field that was worthy of praise.

All phases met with failure

The offense was incapable of sustaining a drive. They never even got beyond the 50-yard line. Running backs were stuffed, receivers didn’t fight for balls, and lineman couldn’t even cut block well. The tight end (there seems to be only one) couldn’t get open enough. And the QB was just plain helpless.

The defense couldn’t stop the run. They barely slowed it. They barely seemed to exist against it. Like faceless mob characters in an arcade beat-em-up, they were only there to give a sense of empowerment to Derrius Guice or Darrel Williams or whoever was carrying the ball for LSU.

Special teams was so unspectacular that they barely deserve mention. I give them one line: Jonny Linehan, SMH.

So how bad was it? So bad it should never be mentioned again.

Shades of Michigan 2015? No. Even though the deficit wasn’t as great as 2015, BYU’s 2017 emulsifying by the LSU Tigers will eclipse that game in infamy in the eyes of the Cougar faithful entirely.

The BYU football team lost more than the game. They lost their will. They lost their fire. And with such a slow start to the season, they’ve put themselves in jeopardy to lose a whole lot more.

There’s nothing that can be gained from this kind of game. The film of it should go in the trash. And that trash burned. And the trashcan launched into the sun.

Because next week the team in red comes to town, and if any part of the BYU team that played the Tigers shows up for the Utes, seven in a row will be as easy as falling.

On BYUtv’s Countdown to Kickoff show, I heard analyst David Nixon say that the LSU game was the one where BYU football could make a statement. Well, there was only one that I heard.

Check please.