On Sunday, oddsmakers released the opening line for BYU's game at SMU. The Cougars opened as double-digit underdogs. The SMU game probably won't be the only tim
. The SMU game probably won't be the only time BYU will be an underdog in September. The Kansas State Wildcats will likely be favored to beat BYU when they come to Lavell Edwards Stadium later this month.
Two weeks later, BYU was a 23.5-point underdog when it traveled to Madison, Wisconsin to take on the Wisconsin Badgers. The Cougars had one of the best upsets of the college football season that day, taking down Wisconsin star running back Jonathan Taylor and spoiling Wisconsin's College Football Playoff hopes.
In 2020, BYU didn't have a chance to pull off a September upset. The Cougars were favored in every game that season after their original schedule was flipped upside down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While BYU wasn't technically an underdog against Baylor in 2022 , they did take down a Baylor team that was coming off a Big 12 championship and ranked inside the top 10.
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