Could the Cougars eat up turnovers against UNM?

The Cougar defense will get a great chance at more turnovers in the game with New Mexico on Saturday.

The Lobos have a solid running game and have developed a good one-two punch behind Rodney Ferguson. But the quarterback Brad Gruner is more suited to running the option than standing back and taking advantage of any weaknesses in BYU’s pass defense.

Gruner is the replacement for Donovan Porterie, who had an ACL and MCL injury against Tulsa and is lost for the season. Gruner is 25 of 61 for 279 yards, five interceptions and a 41 percent completion rate heading into the Cougar game. He has thrown one TD pass in four games, two of which he has been the starter.

Bronco Mendenhall doesn’t like short weeks like the one he’s going to get next week heading into the TCU game. With the late afternoon start with New Mexico, it will make for a long day and night as Mendenhall and his coaches will leave the stadium and head over to their offices to do some work on TCU.

While the coaching staff does not meet on Sunday, it is an individual choice if some coaches decided to clock in on Sunday and break down some film in preparation for team meetings on Monday.

The Bronco approach, and even that of Kyle Whittingham, received some attention today leading up to the Friday Night Lights ESPN game today on ESPN between Memphis and Louisville in Liberty Bowl Stadium. Bronco quotes appeared in the Commercial Appeal, a Memphis newspaper. Read the story here.

In other news, the sinking ship that is Washington football is gaining tombstone status and a myriad of possibly replacements for that coaching job are surfacing. While such speculation is fun, it doesn’t mean much at this stage of the season and is mostly an exercise in piquing the interest of fans who want to forget the mud they’re stuck in. Mendenhall’s name is thrown into the mix. Surprisingly, I didn’t see Kyle Whittingham’s name on the list because I think he’d make a great fit in an upward move. Read the story here.