Brigham Young Cougars quarterback Jake Retzlaff (12) gets off the pass ahead of the hit by Oklahoma Sooners defensive lineman Jacob Lacey (54) and Oklahoma Sooners defensive lineman Trace Ford (30) as BYU and Oklahoma play at LaVell Edwards stadium in Provo on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: BYU will have a quarterback competition during fall camp this year.
Jake Retzlaff and Gerry Bohanon will continue battling for the starting job, and new transfers McCae Hillstead and Treyson Bourguet could make things interesting on the depth chart.
The Cougars’ chances of achieving bowl eligibility — and Big 12 respectability — are largely tied to who they tab as QB1, so Kalani Sitake’s crew can’t afford to get it wrong.
Luckily for the coaching staff, there’s a brand-new, foolproof instrument available to project how each quarterback candidate will perform: the EA Sports College Football 25 video game.
In the name of science, I used the game’s early access launch to dive into solving BYU’s QB conundrum. In dynasty mode, I ran three separate simulations of the Cougars’ 2024 campaign with a different quarterback in the starting spot each time (Hillstead is not featured in the game, and thus could not be part of this experiment. He will be missed).
I used BYU’s default roster and didn’t make any changes to the depth chart aside from quarterback. Injuries were turned off for this exercise in order to keep the simulations fair and consistent.
Most importantly, I didn’t play a single snap in any of these games, allowing everything to be completely simulated with no outside manipulation whatsoever.
Listed below are the results from all three simulations, detailing what the game believes BYU’s chances will be with each of Bohanon, Retzlaff and…
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Author : Deseret News
Publish date : 2024-07-16 21:30:04
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