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BYU Athletics: Forget football, this is a record time for Cougar sports

By Shaun Gordon

LAS VEGAS, NV - MARCH 03: Brigham Young Cougars mascot Cosmo the Cougar performs during the team's quarterfinal game of the West Coast Conference basketball tournament against the San Diego Toreros at the Orleans Arena on March 3, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Cougars won 85-79. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NV - MARCH 03: Brigham Young Cougars mascot Cosmo the Cougar performs during the team's quarterfinal game of the West Coast Conference basketball tournament against the San Diego Toreros at the Orleans Arena on March 3, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Cougars won 85-79. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) /
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BYU Football may be below .500, but the other Cougar fall teams are enjoying a record season of success, with five Top 25 BYU teams.

No, you’re not going to actually forget BYU Football. Football is the king of college sports, and if you’re any school not named Kansas, Duke, or North Carolina you live and die by how your football team performs.

Yes, BYU’s football team is sitting at 4-5, but if you look past that you’ll discover that this has been the strongest fall for BYU sports in history.

Five Cougar teams currently sit in the Top 25 of their respective sport. That’s never happened before at BYU.

Three of those teams sit in the Top 10, two in the Top 5, and one is the top team in the country.

Not too shabby.

Let’s take a look at the Cougar squads that are dominating their fall schedules:

Women’s Volleyball

Of course we have to start at the top. BYU Women’s Volleyball is the No. 1 team in the nation and the only unbeaten one left in the sport.

The Cougars are five wins away from a perfect regular-season record and a likely No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. They’re 23-0 (13-0 WCC) and have already taken down their two closest competitors in the conference twice.

Volleyball plays their final two home games this week, hosting Santa Clara on Thursday (7:00pm MT, BYUtv) and San Francisco on Saturday (1:00pm MT).

Men’s Cross Country

No. 2 Men’s Cross Country is just a single step away from being BYU’s second No. 1 team. They’ve won every race this year, including the West Coast Conference Championships, and they’ll be one of the favorites in next week’s NCAA Championships.

They’ve got one more race beforehand, hosting the NCAA Mountain Regionals on Friday morning at Provo’s East Bay Golf Course.

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Women’s Cross Country

The No. 9 Women’s Cross Country team has been nearly as dominant, winning all but one of their races and also running away with the WCC Championship.

While they won’t be one of the favorites to win the national title, they’ll certainly be a contender. Just like the men they’ll host the regionals on Friday morning.

Men’s Golf

While the golf season takes place primarily in the spring, No. 16 BYU Men’s Golf has played in five fall tournament, placing in the Top 5 of all of them. The team has relied on strong fall performances from Peter Kuest, Rhett Rasmussen, and Carson Lundell.

The team is off for the rest of the calendar year, resuming their schedule in January.

Women’s Soccer

It’s been the perfect bounceback year for No. 24 BYU Women’s Soccer, who cracked the United Soccer Coaches Top 25 for the first time this week. The Cougars reclaimed the WCC Championship after a rough 2017 season, earning a return trip to the NCAA Tournament.

They’ll be in Fort Worth to take on TCU in the first round of the tournament on Friday at 6:00pm MT.

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