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Not only were the Cougars thoroughly whipped by Michigan on Saturday, they went away from the 31-0 shellacking a beaten and bruised football team.

Coach Bronco Mendenhall said running back Adam Hine, linebacker Harvey Langi, defensive backs Micah Hannemann and Michael Davis and offensive lineman Kyle Johnson left the game with injuries.

A BYU football spokesperson said Sunday that the school would not have any updates until Monday's regularly scheduled press briefing with Mendenhall and selected players.

Mendenhall was asked after the game when he started thinking that it just wasn't his team's day at the Big House.

"After Michigan's third touchdown," he said, referring to De'Veon Smith's 60-yard run when he escaped a scrum and then beat Davis' attempt at an open-field tackle. "Just the lack of execution and concentration in general just became very frustrating. And it took myself a long time to try to get adjusted in the second half, but that was trimming it to two or three [defensivel] plays, total. Just tried to give them a chance to concentrate. So, I learned a lot not only about our team and myself, but our defense today. Again, it feels like a new start, a new season, to me. Is what it feels like."

Here are more comments from Mendenhall and offensive coordinator Robert Anae:

Mendenhall on whether Michigan did stuff they hadn't shown on film:

"They didn't actually. They just executed it better. So, similar plan. Really, in the first half, poor concentration on our part. Big plays and penalties. The momentum was gone pretty quick. But that comes through execution. So no, there wasn't anything different. The scheme was good, the coaches were good, but we didn't execute very well, but that comes to me."

Mendenhall on whether he had a feeling this kind of game might happen:

"I wish I did. It is my job to know. I eased up a little bit, because I treated today like a Friday game, and tried to get them as healthy as possible for a physical game, and I am not sure how much that contributed, but we didn't play well. And it didn't look like we prepared to play well. So no, I didn't see that coming."

Mendenhall on what slowed the progress of QB Tanner Mangum:

"It is everything. They are a good defense. So the last two weeks I think they had given up seven points in each of those games. That's not an accident. They have really good players. They have an excellent scheme. They have now seen our quarterback a number of games and had a nice plan. But they are very good, and I don't want my disappointment in our team to take anything away from them. They are a good team, and I think, by far, the best team we have played in the four games, so far."

Mendenhall on Tanner Mangum's demeanor and how he handled the loss:

"Oh, he is smiling the whole time, and he is encouraging his teammates, and he is really resilient, and I am really proud of him. To say I would have liked to have prevented something like this? Yeah, I would have loved to have prevented it. I am not going to say it is a part of the deal, in terms of growing. But it was a pretty graphic and hard lesson today, in a really great setting for college football, and a really good team. Again, it re-frames to me, our season and our team, is what today did. Again, I think they are very good on defense."

Mendenhall on what surprised him the most about the loss:

"It wasn't so much them. It was us. I thought we would concentrate and execute great right from the beginning. I really did. I was disappointed beyond belief. I think our players were, too. There were penalties after plays, late hits on quarterbacks, hitting guys out of bounds, guys cut loose on crossing routes. It wasn't really to me what Michigan did — and again I am not taking anything away from them — I was just really disappointed in how I prepared our team. Because they play as they are prepared. I must not have got to them."

Anae's overall take on the game:

"From my take on the game, we were dominated in every facet: their defense over our offense, every guy, every play. And that is my fault. I did not prepare our guys. That is what we saw.

There are no excuses in my mind. There are just results. And what lies ahead, I think is what is at stake for us.

The deal with something like this is the confidence now becomes something that we are going to be challenged [with].

Shoot, that thing was a shell-shock from the first snap right up through the last. And I would like to have seen more internal leadership in a game like that. We did not have it on offense. So, with that in mind, I think what the challenge is now, like coach Mendenhall said, is we are starting from ground zero to find out who we are, and what we can do."

On biggest different with Tanner Mangum today from last few games:

"The other 10 guys around him were playing at a much more determined, and at a faster and more physical level. And today, it was hesitate, just kind of stand around and spectate. And that's coaching, that is 100 percent coaching. So, we get back to the drawing board and challenge ourselves to find out who we are."

On not having the full playbook at your disposal with a freshman QB:

"It almost compounds the situation. You are basic. You are trying to get a few things done right. At the same time, the other guys on the field that, shoot, if they are sleepwalking, you get what you got today. It is not just Tanner, but it is all 11. It is all of them put together. In this situation, in this field, at this juncture, we were completed dominated in all aspects."

On what was most impressive about Michigan's defense:

"Just from start to finish, they were very impressive, how hard they tried and they had the determination to improve, and we did not.

So one team got way better this week, and our team took a step backward. So back to the drawing board, back to fundamentals and basics. It is time to find out who we really are."