Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: BYU will have a quarterback competition during fall camp this year.
Jake Retzlaff and Gerry Bohanon will continue battling for the starting job, and new transfers McCae Hillstead and Treyson Bourguet could make things interesting on the depth chart.
The Cougars’ chances of achieving bowl eligibility — and Big 12 respectability — are largely tied to who they tab as QB1, so Kalani Sitake’s crew can’t afford to get it wrong.
Luckily for the coaching staff, there’s a brand-new, foolproof instrument available to project how each quarterback candidate will perform: the EA Sports College Football 25 video game.
In the name of science, I used the game’s early access launch to dive into solving BYU’s QB conundrum. In dynasty mode, I ran three separate simulations of the Cougars’ 2024 campaign with a different quarterback in the starting spot each time (Hillstead is not featured in the game, and thus could not be part of this experiment. He will be missed).