ESPN College Gameday is far from a perfect crew when it comes to projecting the results of a football game. As a crew of well-known experts, these pickers love to make the safe choice more often than not, and this week was no exception.
BYU fans are too familiar with the lack of national awareness of the program, and it was easily apparent as the Gameday crew picked their favorites for this weekend’s matchups.
Among those games was BYU’s late-night battle against the 13th-ranked Kansas State Wildcatsin Provo, and much of the ESPN slate felt that the Cougars were disadvantaged in their first Big 12 Conference clash of the season. Pat McAfee pointed out that viewers were in for excellent quarterback play between BYU QB Jake Retzlaff and KSU QB Avery Johnson, giving Johnson the edge for his cascading locks of hair…