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40 years ago, BYU won a national title. Can underdogs still win in college football today?

Robbie Bosco, the starting quarterback on the 1984 BYU football team who is now a BYU employee, celebrates after the Holiday Bowl in 1984.

Robbie Bosco, the starting quarterback on the 1984 BYU football team who is now a BYU employee, celebrates after the Holiday Bowl in 1984. (Ravell Call, Deseret News)


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In 1984 BYU entered the season unranked but defeated No. 3 Pittsburgh on the road, on national TV, in its season opener. That rocketed the Cougars to No. 13 in the polls and, far from the view of national cameras, they just kept winning. Sometimes barely.

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