BYU Cougars Football

Guide Note:

The Brigham Young University football team plays college football as a member of the Mountain West Conference. Known by their nickname the Cougars, the team plays their home games at LaVell Edwards Stadium on campus in Provo. The team has won 23 conference championships, the most recent in 2007. The program has produced one Heisman Trophy winner when Ty Detmer won the award in 1990, and went undefeated in winning the 1984 national championship.

Fast Facts:

1. Head Coach: Bronco Mendenhall
2. Home: LaVell Edwards Stadium, Provo, UT
3. Capacity: 64,045
4. Conference: Mountain West
5. National Championships: 1 1984
6. Conference Titles: 23

Should be called "QBYU" not "BYU"

Over the years, the Cougars program achieved much success under the direction of head coach LaVell Edwards, and developed a number of quarterbacks for the National Football League. These include not only Detmer but Gifford Nielson, Marc Wilson, John Beck and Super Bowl winning quarterbacks Jim McMahon and Steve Young. Yet it was Robbie Bosco who led the team to their only national championship in 1984. Other notable players from the program include Todd Christensen, Andy Reid, Brian Billick, Bart Oates, Trevor Matich, Kurt Gouveia, Jason Buck, Virgil Carter, and Doug Jolley.