table class="infobox" cellpadding="4" width="300" style="font-size: 95%;">|+ style="margin-left: inherit; font-size: medium;" |###|-###! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size:110%;" |BYU Cougars football###|-###| class="toccolours" align="center" colspan="2" style="background-color: white;" |### The _Brigham Young University Cougars are a college football program that competes in NCAA Division I-A and the Mountain West Conference. Although considered a mid-major program because of conference affiliation, the Cougars have generally fared well in Division I-A. By virtue of a unanimous #1 ranking in the AP and Coaches' poll and being undefeated in 1984, the team was awarded the National Championship, and in 1990 quarterback Ty Detmer won the Heisman Trophy. BYU also holds the NCAA record for most consecutive games without being shutout - 361 games over 28 years. Since 1974 the program has won 23 conference championships and has played in 26 bowl games.

The Cougars finished first in the MWC for the 2007 season, ranked 14th in the BCS, and played UCLA in the Las Vegas Bowl on December 22, 2007. BYU won the game with a score of 17 to 16 when a field goal attempt by UCLA on the 14-yard line was tipped by Eathyn Manumaleuna with 3 seconds left in the game.