PROVO — Some house cooking in BYU’s first house recreation in just about a month used to be precisely what the Cougars wanted after ultimate week’s humbling 29-7 loss at Texas Tech.
Endure Bachmeier finished 23-of-33 passes for 296 yards and a landing and ran for 59 yards and a rating because the Twelfth-ranked Cougars rebounded for a 44-13 win over TCU in entrance of a sold-out crowd of 64,447 fanatics at LaVell Edwards Stadium.
LJ Martin added 88 yards on 21 carries together with a 1-yard TD plunge for the Cougars (9-1, 6-1 Giant 12), and Parker Kingston totaled 93 yards and a landing as BYU rolled up 448 yards of offense.
TCU quarterback Josh Hoover finished simply 10 passes for 183 yards and two interceptions within the 0.33 loss in 5 video games for the Horned Frogs (6-4, 3-4 Giant 12). Bachmeier, in the meantime, attached on 10 of his first 13 passes for 108 yards, and likewise ran for a 17-yard landing because the Cougars opened the second one quarter with a 17-0 lead.
It used to be the type of speedy get started BYU may just every now and then on dream of — no doubt, in ultimate week’s loss to a Texas Tech group proving to be the highest group within the convention and a School Soccer Playoff contender.
Chalk up quite a lot of it to a wholesome Martin, who neglected the 2nd half of of BYU’s win at Iowa State with an obvious shoulder harm and used to be restricted to 35 yards on 10 carries in opposition to the Purple Raiders.
“I don’t believe it used to be well being, I feel it used to be extra self assurance,” he stated after the sport. “This night I had extra self assurance, and I used to be ready to get going previous.”
That still helped arrange Bachmeier’s passing recreation, person who integrated 80 yards to Kingston, 50 extra on 5 catches to Chase Roberts and a career-high 78 yards and a landing to Carsen Ryan.
“I am in point of fact pleased with all that Carsen does,” BYU trainer Kalani Sitake stated. “This night he used to be ready to catch the ball, however he is been wonderful throughout the year, blocking off, operating with Keyan and the opposite tight ends. However it used to be excellent to look him get the ball and rating.”
Added Ryan: “Our mentality going into this recreation used to be simply to get again to the place we have been.”
One week after ultimate week’s humbling loss to now-No. 6 Texas Tech, BYU out-gained TCU with 136 yards within the first quarter that integrated an 11-yard landing from Parker Kingston to open the scoring.
Bachmeier added to his haul with a 43-yard landing for Ryan, and the Cougars held the Frogs out of the tip zone till Jon Denman scored from 13 yards out on fourth-and-1 with 1:14 last within the half of.
However Bachmeier replied to that setback through main a 10-play, 58-yard power within the ultimate 1:14, discovering Roberts with a 13-yard achieve on third and 10 to arrange Will Ferrin’s 2nd box function — a 35-yarder as time expired to head up 27-10 on the destroy.
Bachmeier accounted for 239 yards passing and 46 yards at the floor of the Cougars’ 344 yards of offense within the first half of. Defensively, Keanu Tanuvasa, Tausili Akana and John Taumoepeau mixed to sack Hoover two times and pin TCU to 192 yards, together with simply 50 speeding yards.
BYU ran for 105 yards within the first half of in opposition to the Giant 12’s third-best speeding protection, together with 47 yards on 9 carries from tailback LJ Martin and an 11-yard end-around landing, whilst scoring on all 5 in their first-half offensive possessions.
Faletau Satuala added a third-quarter interception, choosing off Hoover for simply the 9th time in 2025 and the 0.33 pick out of the yr for the previous four-star prospect from Bountiful.
BYU did not punt till the ten:42 mark of the fourth quarter, when freshman Fuller Shurtz pinned the Frogs on the 16-yard line with a 41-yard boot.
At the subsequent play, Evan Johnson sacked Hoover for the 0.33 time, and the Horned Frogs punted it again after lower than 90 seconds of recreation time.
The Cougars’ protection even made up for a fumbled snap on best the second one punt of the evening, when Tanner Wall returned an interception 68 yards for a landing to ice the sport.
“In my head, I used to be like, do not get tackled. I am satisfied we discovered some way,” stated Wall, who scored for the primary time since his senior yr of highschool in 2017, prior to including with a giggle: “I were given somewhat spice up there on the finish.
“It is been some time since I have been in any case zone with the ball.”
BYU hits the street once more subsequent week to stand No. 25 Cincinnati, which dropped its 2nd instantly recreation 30-24 to Arizona to fall to 7-3 and 5-2 in Giant 12 play.
