![]() ![]() It has been an expectation right up there with candy at the end of October and turkey in November. Still, over time, BYU quarterbacks have regularly got to 300, a rite of passage. It was an era when defenses didn’t have the NFL influences of today. But it is a tradition, a storied convention sewn by BYU quarterbacks back in the WAC days when UTEP, New Mexico and Utah were cross-eyed defenses incapable of stopping it. McMahon set the national mark for a career with 17. ![]() Twice, Detmer had twelve 300-yard passing games in a season, another NCAA mark. He got 24 of them in a row, an NCAA record. That lasted a decade when no other college passer could top it. Jim McMahon set an NCAA record by collecting 12 of them in consecutive games. The 300-yard figure is kind of sacred in BYU football history. The last time BYU had a 300-yard passing game was in the Las Vegas Bowl, Dec. Where have all BYU’s 300-yard passing games gone? ![]()
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