LaVell Edward's Impact on Week Two, 2026, NCAA College Football - 13 September 2026

Media coverage of Week 2 in the 2026 college football season has overlooked a notable LaVell Edwards connection. Three current head coaches of major programs—all former players under Edwards at BYU—secured significant victories this weekend:

• Steve Sarkisian’s Texas defeated Ohio State.
• Kalani Sitake’s BYU defeated Arizona.
• Kyle Whittingham’s Michigan defeated Oklahoma.

Edwards’s coaching legacy reached its peak with BYU’s 1984 national championship. That legacy continues through the success of these three former players now leading prominent programs.

My brother Dee and I attended the game that helped produce BYU’s 1984 national title by poll vote: the Holiday Bowl at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego on December 21, 1984, when BYU defeated Michigan.