McCae Hillstead , Treyson Bourguet and Bear Bachmeier are all in the race to win BYU Cougars ’ starting QB job. The competition is even during the first two weeks of fall camp, and the Cougs have three weeks before the season opener against Portland State. They’ve wrapped up the first week of fall camp and observations have been that there is little to no separation so far.

But just as things were settling into a balanced hum, McCae Hillstead broke the monotony with a pointed rebuttal. 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. Jake did feel that he was pushed a bit early, Coug Connect host said. “I thought he was ready,” Hillstead instead responded. “ I

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