The good for the ACC on Friday was that Dook won in OT. The Devils looked sound in a road win, but it was just Northwestern. One over the BT, but still just Northwestern.
SMU, however, disappointed in losing at Home to BYU. The Ponies lost first and foremost because the BYU front 7 owned the SMU OL all night. SMU RBs failed to pick the slack and block well. SMU responded in the way that almost all teams now do if they feel they can: they concluded that the problem would not matter if only they played the fastest QB they could. SMU kicked 5FGs, as BYU had no need to worry about the backup QB beating them with the passing game. BYU contained the QB running and bottled up the RBs, and so SMU could not get into the end zone. That great TE on SMU even got shut down because the QB simply could not get any type passing game going as he scrambled around showing how fast he is.
I have no doubt that the basic BYU Game Plan for D was to totally disrupt the SMU OL, which would mess up the whole offense. That would lead quickly to an in effective QB who is the better passer in every sense and get him benched. And then have the D prepared to keep the fast QB from ever breaking loose. Do that, and you win because of the D and because of the SMU staff falling into your trap. Andre Ware could be seen as in on the ploy because he was calling for 'the better athlete to avoid the BYU pass rush' from get go, and then he spent the second half ignoring the facts of that QB's play: failing to see open receivers, just missing open receivers, failing to ever break even one halfway big run because BYU knows how to contain and how to tackle.
The SMU D played well enough to win, obviously.
