McCae Hillstead , Treyson Bourguet and Bear Bachmeier are fighting like crazy to win the job as BYU’s starting quarterback. The competition is even through the first two weeks of fall camp, and the Cougars have three weeks before the season opener against Portland State.

Last year’s mini duel between Jake Retzlaff and Gerry Bohanon was determined by turnovers during the final scrimmage. Retzlaff got the job and never gave it back en route to an 11-2 season. Once again, ball security for the new guys will be among Aaron Roderick’s determining factors.

“That ball is sacred. You know how much Kalani (Sitake) mixes the temporal and the spiritual. He doesn’t use words like that lightly,” former BYU quarterback Riley Nelson told the Y’s Guys livestream show. “He talks about how that ball

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