against East Carolina, had a pick-six to ease the offensive load too. <\/a><\/p>\nBut to open Big 12 play, Hill\u2019s unit looked shockingly vulnerable as the Buffs drove up and down the field with ease. Colorado rolled up 138 yards in the first quarter alone. <\/p>\n
The most stunning part was the bulk of Colorado\u2019s work was done on the ground, the place where Hill amassed his most talented playmakers: Glasker, Jack Kelly, Keanu Tanuvasa. <\/p>\n
Colorado averaged 5.3 yards a carry in the first half as a bevy of running backs found gaps. Glasker hinted the Buffs would pose a threat on the ground, but nothing like this. <\/p>\n
\u201cLast year, they were more of a throwing team. This year, I feel like they got some good running backs. It is going to be a fun inside run game,\u201d Glasker. <\/p>\n
This was hardly fun for BYU.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think maybe the defense had it a little too easy the first three games,\u201d Sitake said. <\/p>\n
For the BYU team that showed up in the first month of the season, a two-score deficit with the defense on the ropes might have been too much to overcome.<\/p>\n
Yet the Cougars slowly climbed their way back. Glasker and his linebacking corps got after the quarterback and ground the running back to a halt. Colorado averaged just 3.1 yards per carry in the second half and Glasker added a 22-yard sack to snuff out a fourth-quarter drive. <\/p>\n
While Glasker was busy shutting the Buffs down, Cougars quarterback Bear Bachmeier led two scoring drives to give BYU just enough offense. <\/p>\n
On the first, he marched BYU down to the four-yard line and found Chase Roberts open on fourth down for a touchdown. The second time, he used his legs to eventually set up the Cougars for a Cody Hagen rushing touchdown. For an offense where Bachmeier\u2019s experience was the biggest question, he accounted for over 70 percent of the production and 277 yards. <\/p>\n
He was efficient through the air \u2014 going 19-of-27 \u2014 and added 15 carries and 98 yards on the ground. It was the most rushing yards by a freshman quarterback at BYU since Taysom Hill. <\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing him progress, it\u2019s a wonderful thing,\u201d Glasker said. <\/p>\n
\u201cComplimentary football, that\u2019s huge,\u201d added fellow linebacker Kelly. \u201cIt\u2019s awesome the offense is making those strides and becoming more comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
The underlying message: It is nice for the defense not to have to do everything. <\/p>\n
Of course, the strength of this team is still on that side of the ball. When BYU\u2019s offense couldn\u2019t quite close it out in the fourth quarter, giving Colorado the ball back with under two minutes to go, Glasker came up with the interception again in front of Deion. <\/p>\n
Instead of dancing, he made a beeline for the sideline and soon after the locker room. <\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t do [the dance] two years in a row. It wasn\u2019t the same,\u201d he joked. <\/p>\n
But one thing that might be the same is that BYU is steadily shaping into a contender like it was a year ago. <\/p>\n
Glasker will take that back to Provo \u2014 and another interception for good measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Headlined by Glasker\u2019s play, BYU\u2019s defense hung in long enough for quarterback Bear Bachmeier to find himself on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[4818,4816,4815,4817,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-190381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-brigham-young-university","10":"tag-byu","11":"tag-cougars","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-football","15":"tag-ncaafootball","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}