Top 10 Reasons Why BYU Football is going Independent - Or stay relevant in that matter

Rand Sargent Contributed to this, he absolutely made my day with this.

10. Every team that goes independent just loves it! I mean honestly, of the 55 teams in the history of college football that have gone independent, only 52 of them ever wanted back into a conference.

9. We lock up an automatic bid to the Independence Bowl, right?

8. If it worked for USU, why not us?

7. Recruits are going to flock to us now. Without the restrictions of conference affiliation, we can name every BYU player "1st Team all Independent."

6. Tom Holmoe is a huge Bollywood fan.

5. Bronco is a man of his word. He promised we would return to the glory years of the WAC and he was right!

4. In accordance with prophecy, "Independence in Football" is the first step back to "Independence, Missouri."

3. "Independence Day" is Jake Heaps' favorite movie. You have to admit that Will Smith is awesome!

2. "Spirit, Honor and Tradition" just seems to be missing something. Oh yeah, "Independence." Now...if only we could come up with an acronym for our core values.

1. It worked for the 13 colonies, right?