"Looking at the game as kind of an audition is a fair assessment," Holmoe said Friday. "To say people will be looking at us from that perspective is probably accurate."
BYU hopes to do that before the ball is even kicked off. The nationwide fan base it has boasted about for months should be on display. BYU officials say it is hard to know how many tickets they have sold to BYU fans because there are so many different ways to buy tickets, but believe there will be between 10,000 and 15,000 BYU fans in attendance.
"We sold a lot of tickets," Holmoe said.