Seriously.
"This might sound weird, but it felt good to maybe throw a couple of interceptions, and kind of go back to the drawing board and look and kind of bring me down a little bit, because the expectation of play around here is maybe so high, that sometimes you are going to make mistakes, so it is good to learn from those and process those," Hall said.
The junior quarterback now has thrown four interceptions in five games.
He has thrown for 1,587 yards and 17 touchdowns.
By way of comparison, the leading quarterback candidate to win the Heisman, Missouri's Chase Daniel, has thrown for 1,665 yards and 15 touchdowns with just one interception.
Hall reiterated Monday and Tuesday that he is not focusing at all on the Heisman race, although some national Heisman polls continue to rank him in the top five.
Further explaining why the two picks against USU - the first time he has been intercepted twice in a game since last year against UNLV - were a good thing, Hall said: "It is just part of the game. ... The reason I love playing football is because I love going out with my guys and I love going to battle. And numbers and all that stuff doesn't mean a lot to me as long as we come out with a win, and so that's part of the battle. . . . I like it."
Reed's return
Count Hall among the BYU players who can't wait for the return of receiver Mike Reed, who has missed the last two games recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery. BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall said Reed will play this week against New Mexico.
"Sometimes, there were situations where we needed a play and [Utah State] crowded Austin [ Collie] and crowded Dennis [Pitta] and we had a hard time finding open guys, so it would have been nice to have had Mike in there to kind of go to," Hall said.
Won't run it up
Mendenhall reiterated in the MWC coaches teleconference on Tuesday that the No. 9 Cougars will not go for "style points" and run up the score on opponents if they get the chance in order to impress pollsters, which dropped BYU a spot over the weekend in both major polls.
"We will pull starters [when the outcome is not in doubt] and allow younger players a chance to play," Mendenhall said.
