Nevada at BYU Final Statistics

	1	2	3	4	T
NEV	14	10	0	3	27
BYU	7	3	0	3	13

Team Stat Comparison

	Nevada	BYU
1st Downs	23	21
3rd down efficiency	9-17	5-15
4th down efficiency	3-4	1-4
Total Yards	435	320
Passing	196	229
Comp-Att	16-26	24-45
Yards per pass	7.5	5.1
Rushing	239	91
Rushing Attempts	53	25
Yards per rush	4.5	3.6
Penalties	6-65	1-5
Turnovers	2	0
Fumbles lost	1	0
Interceptions thrown	1	0
Possession	36:17	23:43

Stats courtesy of espn.com

Statistically the defense was significantly more solid than it was even against Cal.  The most alarming statistic would be the 229 passing yards allowed.

However, Heaps put the ball in the air a lot on Saturday, completing 24 passes out of 45 attempts for a 53.33333333% completion rate.  That is a far cry yet from the 62.162% they allowed Cal's Riley to complete.  Allowing 5.1 yards per pass and 3.6 yards per rush in Provo shows how far this defense has come in such a short time.

The biggest alarms from Saturday were turnovers and penalties...again.  Nevada has been solid, for the most part, holding onto the ball this season.  Kaep was intercepted once and Taua lost one fumble early in the game (leading to the Cougars' only touchdown), while BYU was clean (can't believe I just wrote that), for a -2 in turnovers.  While not too bad, this stat did come dangerously close to being much, much worse.

Nevada was 6 for 65 yards on penalties, marking the worst performance in that department since Nevada went 9 for 90 yards against Eastern Washington in the opener this season.  Taking out a couple of pass interference calls (one of which was bogus, in my opinion), most of these fouls were procedural.

On to next week!