... Cinderella stories in college football. Utah in 2004 and 2008. Boise State in 2006. But if you are willing to go back 25 years, to 1984, you will discover one of the greatest stories in the history of sports.

Just a decade earlier, in 1974, BYU's football program had been historically inept. They had never had much success. They were a private school owned by the Mormon Church. People thought the program could never be successful.

Missionary service interrupted football players careers' for two years. Many thought that returned missionaries made poor football players, they weren't mean enough, and taking two years off disrupted their rhythm too much.

There seemed to be little hope that BYU could ever do anything significant in ...

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