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1972 BYU Cougars football team

1972 BYU Cougars football
Conference Western Athletic Conference
1972 record 7–4 (5–2 WAC)
Head coach LaVell Edwards
Offensive coordinator Dave Kragthorpe
Home stadium Cougar Stadium
Seasons
← 1971
1973 →
1972 WAC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#13 Arizona State $ 5 1 0     10 2 0
BYU 5 2 0     7 4 0
Utah 5 2 0     6 5 0
Arizona 4 3 0     4 7 0
Wyoming 3 4 0     4 7 0
New Mexico 2 4 0     3 8 0
Colorado State 1 4 0     1 10 0
UTEP 1 6 0     2 8 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1972 BYU Cougars football team represented Brigham Young University (BYU) for the 1972 college football season. It was their first year under head coach LaVell Edwards and the Cougars finished over .500 for the first time since 1969.

Defensive coordinator LaVell Edwards was promoted to head coach in January to take over for the departed Tommy Hudspeth, who ended up as the head coach at UTEP by season's end.

BYU was returning 28 players from the previous year but Golden Richards would not be one of them. Richards claimed it was because the Cougars were still a run-oriented offense while BYU and Edwards said it was because Richards had trouble keeping with his academics.

All-WAC: Dave Atkinson, Dan Hansen, Paul Howard, Paul Linford, Ron Tree, Pete Van Valkenburg

WAC Coach of the Year: LaVell Edwards


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