The yearly slump of Christian Ponder – every year he has had a few consecutive games that he has struggled; 2008 – Ponder completed only 6 of 18 passes against Wake Forest (with three interceptions), and the next game he came out against Colorado and only completed 10 of 22 with one interception and no touchdowns. 2009 – After throwing two interceptions and barely getting by with a win against a struggling NC State team, he threw four interceptions the following week against Clemson. Last week, Ponder threw two interceptions and completed less than 40% of his passes. Let’s hope his yearly struggle continues.
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| Hopefully BYU can do to Christian Ponder what Oklahoma did last week |
Florida State’s 47-17 loss to Oklahoma last week – the main breakdown that Florida State had last week against Oklahoma was its secondary. Five receivers had receptions of 19 or more yards and two of the four touchdown tosses by Oklahoma QB Landry Jones were more than 35 yards each. BYU quarterbacks could use a slightly weaker secondary to gain confidence again after a complete shut-down against Air Force. By the way, isn’t that what Air Force should do? Shut down other team’s air attacks? (That was probably the best joke I have made in months, so I hope you laughed)
BYU doesn’t lose two straight games – during the last four regular seasons, BYU has only lost two games in a row once. The only instance was in 2007 when Max Hall was a sophomore and Harvey Unga was a freshman, with back-to-back losses against #13 UCLA and then a 55-47 shootout at Tulsa. Unfortunately, we are in a similar situation as that year with a new starting quarterback and a new starting running back, but I am sure Bronco will say something motivating and we’ll at least start the game with a decent drive.
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