The 2016 season's largest margin: BYU 51, Massachusetts 9. A 42-point win — the year's high-water mark.
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2016 — The Winning Chapter
BYU's 2016 season (9-4) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.
Won the Poinsettia Bowl
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
Who carried it
- Taysom HillQB2,323 passing yards
- Jamaal WilliamsRB1,375 rushing yards
- Squally CanadaRB315 rushing yards
- Nick KurtzWR541 receiving yards
- Colby PearsonWR384 receiving yards
- Mitchell JuergensWR333 receiving yards
- Fred WarnerLB86 tackles
- Butch Pau'uLB83 tackles
- Francis BernardLB79 tackles
- Sae TautuLB6 sacks
- Logan TaeleDL3 sacks
- Tomasi LaulileDL3 sacks
Season leaders, 2016.
The season's deepest loss: BYU 14, UCLA 17. A 3-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: BYU beat Wyoming 24-21 in the postseason.
"Rise and Shout"
2016 is a middle chapter for BYU — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.