The Brigham Young University football team has started its season 2-2 and played all four games against Power Five teams.

It earned wins against Tennessee on the road and against USC at Lavell Edwards Stadium. The two losses came at home against University of Utah and Washington. Voice of the Cougars, Greg Wrubell, says considering BYU gives up an average of 32 points per contest and only scoring an average of 22.5 points per game, 2-2 is a pretty decent outcome.

“BYU really hasn’t played maybe its best football yet,” Wrubell said. “Many of these four games it has found a way to cobble together two of the wins.”

He says considering the opponents the Cougars played, there should be a lot of confidence BYU is a quality team. However, there one concern going into the rest of the season is losing Ty’Son Williams for the year. The running back suffered a torn ACL.

“That hasn’t maybe been talked about enough this week,” Wrubell said. “He was the most dynamic player on this team.”

Wrubell says this will most likely mean senior Emmanuel Esukpa and sophomore Lopini Katoa will get most of the carries now.

This comes with the schedule easing up though and BYU is on pace for a winning season and a bowl appearance. It hits the road to take on Toledo this Saturday.

He says the Cougars need to tighten some things up on both sides of the ball. However, it has to find a way to put more points on the board.

“They have the potential to do so,” Wrubell said. “I think three touchdown passes in four games is a low number and BYU can be better than that, much better than that.”

Don’t let that stat force you into thinking the Voice of the Cougars believes quarterback Zach Wilson is being held back.

“I really do think it’s a function of wide receivers not being able to get separation against some real quality SEC and Pac 12 cornerbacks and secondaries,” Wrubell said. “Its been hard for BYU to see some down field options in the first four weeks.”

He says that could all change as the schedule softens up. While no one will make an excuse of a schedule according to Wrubell, it is a real thing. When you play P5 schools four straight games you may get banged up a little he says and so it’s been difficult to create that separation.

“I think things will look better as the schedule gets, at least on the surface, a little bit easier,” Wrubell said.

That doesn’t mean he believes BYU is guaranteed to win the rest of its games. It has quality opponents still on the schedule in teams like Boise State and Utah State. Even teams like Toledo and USF will not be easy.

“There are no truly soft spots,” Wrubell said. “Except for Idaho State… and you’d like to think that you’ll be heavily favored Liberty at home and UMASS on the road. But the other games, you got to find some wins there to get to six and get to the postseason.”

He says the offense will probably look a little more down field in future games, but the looks just haven’t been there yet.

It was also announced earlier this week Utah and BYU will take a two year break from its rivalry game. Wrubell says there is not much to tell there since it has happened once and BYU is usually the team that will be flexible with other teams.

“Because they got to try and find 12 games per year,” Wrubell said. “Whereas Utah is less flexible because their number of non-conference games is a little more limited.”

The game against Toledo will kick off at 10 AM on Saturday and BYU fans may need to pay to watch as it will be the team’s first game ever broadcasted on ESPN+. This will also be the first game this season for Cougars where they will be favored to win.