That sucks. BYU’s record at night is way better than their record in daytime
The last time TCU played BYU, the score was TCU 44- BYU 11 . BYU had a pretty good QB Kedon Slovis. I looked at the history of our Provo games and the equalizer is TCU sacks and harassment of their QB. We have 20 sacks for the year today. The leader is Kaleb Elarms Orr with 4. In 2015-2016 we had 40 or sacks annually. The threshold for success at that time was 30 sacks a year was the bare minimum.
When TCU had 35-43 sacks between 2015 -2016, the overwhelming leader dog was a DE like Matt Boesen or Banogu. The years when TCU had LBs lead the team in sacks like years with Garret Wallow, not so good.
Hopefully during this bye week, Avalos has had some time to repeat early and often to the Defensive Ends like Oyewale & Chapman, "You have to step up" Heck, even Deven Deal with the opportunity he has been regularly given needs to step up.
Some of the tweaking during the bye week hopefully includes moving Tristan Johnson to the edge 100% of the time where he is more effective (#35) I think. Give superior line of scrimmage athletes like Austin Jordan & Kylin Jackson over other DBs on specialized Blitz packages.