BYU football has amazing 5-0 start

BYU just beat the West Virginia Mountaineers to go 5-0. A week ago, they beat the Colorado Buffaloes 24-21 to go 4-0. Two weeks ago, they beat East Carolina 34-13 to go 3-0 for three straight seasons. That was the first time in BYU football’s program history to record that. It was a pretty big landmark for the team, and its fans.

This year the BYU fandom was excited for Jake Retzlaff (The Quarterback) to lead BYU to another great season. He put up amazing stats in the 2024-25 season with 2,947 yards, 20 passing touchdowns, 417 rushing yards, and six rushing touchdowns. He led the 11-2 football team to an Alamo Bowl victory over the 25 ranked, 9-4 Colorado Buffaloes, who had the Wide Receiver and Cornerback Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter. The score to that game was 36-14. He had 151 passing yards that game. He helped BYU end the season ranked 13. BYU fans around the world were excited to do even better this year with Jake Retzlaff in his Senior Year. Then, in July, news got out that he had violated the Honor Code.

BYU was willing to give him a seven game suspension, but he withdrew from BYU, unwilling to suffer the suspension. He entered the transfer portal, ending up in Tulane. This was a devastating blow to the BYU offense. 

Then, in May, Bear Bachmeier, a 19 year old true freshman quarterback from Stanford, transferred to BYU with his Junior brother Tiger Bachmeier, a wide receiver. On August 19, Bear was announced as BYU’s starting Quarterback. This would be the first time BYU has ever had a true freshman get the starting QB job. Everybody was excited to see how he would do, after getting many praises from head coach Kalane Sitake. 

On August 30, Bear led the team out wearing the number 47. In that game, he went 7-11 with 97 yards and 3 touchdowns. He was pulled out of the game at halftime, with the score being 49-0, BYU way on top. The game ended 69-0, with BYU setting a program record with their largest shutout. Another star of this game was Jack Kelly who recovered a blocked field goal, and took it into the endzone. 

 

 In their second game against Stanford, Bear came out showing he was made for the job. He went 17-27 with 175 passing yards. To put a little cherry on top, he had a rushing touchdown. He was gaining more, and more trust by the second. In the third game against the 2-1 East Carolina, he came out gunning even harder. He went 18-25 with 246 passing yards, one passing touchdown, 26 rushing yards, and yet another touchdown. The other star of that game was the cornerback Evan Johnson with two interceptions, one being a single yard pick six.

In their game against the Colorado Buffaloes, they won in a close matchup ending up 24-21. Bear Bachmeier threw 19-27 and 179 yards on passing, while rushing for a career high 98 yards. He had two passing touchdowns. 

Now we’re gonna skip over to the Senior Wide Receiver, Chase Roberts. He had 5 receptions, adding up to 49 receiving yards. That doesn’t sound like much, but he also had two receiving touchdowns. 

Now to tell you how this game ended, it was tight in the 4th quarter. Bear Bachmeier and Colorado’s QB Kaidon Salter were going back and forth at each other. BYU was losing 17-21, and then Cody Hagen gave them the lead with a 32 yard touchdown run. The Buffaloes got the back and then, with 50 seconds left something amazing happened for BYU. Salter was getting pressured on a pass by Jack Kelly and scrambled out right. He threw it, and BYU LB Isaiah Glasker intercepted it to seal the win. 

After the game Bear Bachmeier said, “Sorry I’m getting a little choked up, but that’s just how I was raised. My dad, my mom, my older siblings, my younger brother… you gotta have that mentality, you gotta go get that 1st down. You gotta do whatever you gotta do to win.”

In their last and most recent game against West Virginia, BYU took over in a 38-24 win. Bear Bachmeier threw for 351 yards and one touchdown. He also had 43 rushing yards and one more rushing touchdown. Chase Roberts caught four passes for 161 yards. Another receiver Parker Kingston, had 111 receiving yards with another touchdown. He had a one yard rushing touchdown on top of that.

Next game, they are playing against the 4-1 Arizona Wildcats which will be a tough matchup against this other Big 12 team.