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1978 BYU Cougars football team

1978 BYU Cougars football
WAC champion
Holiday Bowl, L 16–23 vs. Navy
Conference Western Athletic Conference
1978 record 9–4 (5–1 WAC)
Head coach LaVell Edwards
Home stadium Cougar Stadium
Seasons
← 1977
1979 →
1978 WAC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
BYU $ 5 – 1 – 0     9 – 4 – 0
Utah 4 – 2 – 0     8 – 3 – 0
Wyoming 4 – 2 – 0     5 – 7 – 0
New Mexico 3 – 3 – 0     7 – 5 – 0
Colorado State 2 – 4 – 0     5 – 6 – 0
San Diego State 2 – 4 – 0     4 – 7 – 0
UTEP 1 – 5 – 0     1 – 11 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
Brigham Young at Oregon State
1 2 3 4 Total
• BYU 7 3 0 0 10
Oregon St 0 0 6 0 6
1 2 3 4 Total
Colorado State 0 0 6 0 6
• BYU 7 6 19 0 32
  • Date: September 23
  • Location: Cougar Stadium, Provo, Utah
  • Game start: 10:50 a.m. MST
  • Game attendance: 31,052
  • Game weather: Clear, 70°F
  • Television network: ABC (regional)
1 2 3 4 Total
• BYU 0 3 0 14 17
Oregon 10 0 6 0 16
1 2 3 4 Total
Wyoming 7 7 0 0 14
• BYU 10 10 7 21 48

The 1978 BYU Cougars football team represented the Brigham Young University (BYU) in the 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). The team was led by head coach LaVell Edwards, in his seventh year, and played their home games at Cougar Stadium in Provo, Utah. They finished the season with a record of nine wins and four losses (9–4, 5–1 WAC), as WAC Champions and with a loss against Navy in the Holiday Bowl.

Jim McMahon, the backup quarterback and normally handles the punting duties, came off the bench to pass for one score and run for another when Marc Wilson was injured early in the second quarter with a bruised hamstring. "It's nice to have quarterbacks like those two, isn't it", head coach LaVell Edwards said after the game.


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