Monday, October 19

BYU Athletics (byucougars.com)

BYU Athletics reports that the undefeated Cougars (6-0) rose from No. 8 to No. 2 in the AP Top 25 and to No. 3 in the AFCA Coaches Poll after a 28-24 win over No. 2 Notre Dame, their highest ranking since the 1984 national championship season, and details the wider top-10 shuffle and Big 12 rankings.

AP News

The Associated Press's live coverage of the Oct. 18, 2026 AP Top 25 college football poll reports Miami at No. 1 for the first time since 2002, BYU at No. 2 for its highest ranking since 1984, and Ohio State at No. 3, with voter Q&As and conference breakdowns.

ESPN

ESPN's Adam Rittenberg reports on No. 8 BYU's 28-24 win over No. 2 Notre Dame at LaVell Edwards Stadium, including coach Kalani Sitake's emotional reaction, quarterback Bear Bachmeier's performance and comments about Notre Dame, and players' remarks about earning respect.

ESPN

ESPN reports that the Big 12 acknowledged officials incorrectly cleared the final play of BYU's 28-24 win over Notre Dame when replays showed one second should have remained on the clock, and that the conference will review its end-of-game officiating process.

Yahoo Sports

USA TODAY reports that BYU quarterback Bear Bachmeier, after the No. 8 Cougars' 28-24 win over No. 2 Notre Dame, said Notre Dame had disrespected him and his family during his high school recruitment, and recounts his role in every BYU score in the game.

OutKick

OutKick reports that BYU quarterback Bear Bachmeier, after throwing for 224 yards and a touchdown and rushing for two scores in BYU's 28-24 upset of Notre Dame, said Notre Dame disrespected him and his family during his high school recruitment, and the piece recounts his recruiting background and path from Stanford to BYU.

USA TODAY

USA TODAY reports on No. 8 BYU's 28-24 win over No. 2 Notre Dame, in which quarterback Bear Bachmeier said Notre Dame 'disrespected me and my family' during his recruitment and accounts for his role in every Cougars score.

Yahoo Sports

NBC Sports' Vaughn Dalzell ranks the top 2026 Heisman Trophy contenders entering Week 8 of the college football season, giving betting odds, season stats and commentary led by Ohio State's Jeremiah Smith, and noting BYU's Bear Bachmeier rising on the board after a win over Notre Dame.

BYU Cougars Wire (USA TODAY Sports Media Group)

A BYU Cougars Wire article reports that BYU quarterback Bear Bachmeier scored four touchdowns (two rushing, one receiving, one passing) in a win over Notre Dame, a career-best game that the article says was the first of its kind for a Cougars quarterback in over 30 years, and notes his comment that Notre Dame had "disrespected" him during his high school recruitment.

Church News · 6 min

A Missionary Work magazine article (reprinted by Church News) comparing the 2012 missionary age change with the November 2025 change that let young women serve at 18, and the record surges each one caused.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints · 24 min

Part 3 of the Church's *Dedicate* series follows seven young adults as they learn how the temple can draw them closer to Jesus Christ and to their ancestors.

Church Newsroom · 3 min

Hundreds gathered in a meetinghouse next to the Mexico City Mexico Temple on Oct. 17 for a premiere of "Covenant Connections," the third episode of the Church's "Dedicate" video series.

Church Newsroom · 2 min

Young adults in São Paulo watched the second episode of "Dedicate," the Church's series about seven young adults exploring the Salt Lake Temple, at an Oct. 10 conference with two of its cast.

Church News · 38 min

Church News editor Jon Ryan Jensen talks with "Dedicate" producer Aaron Merrell and two of its seven young-adult cast members, Sora Murata (Japan) and Alexandra Cazier Hovermale (Alabama), about filming the six-part Salt Lake Temple series.

Church Newsroom · 4 min

The Church Newsroom release on President Henry B. Eyring's Oct. 18 dedication of the Montpelier Idaho Temple, the Church's 225th and Idaho's eighth.

Church Newsroom · 3 min

The Church Newsroom's English version of its Spanish Newsroom release on Elder Ronald A. Rasband's Oct. 18 dedication of the Managua Nicaragua Temple, centered on the three ways he taught members to draw closer to Christ in temple worship.

Church News · 11 min

Elder Ronald A. Rasband dedicated the Managua Nicaragua Temple on Oct. 18, the country's first, and the Church News story pairs his remarks with long profiles of Nicaraguan members who traveled for years to reach a temple.

Church News · 9 min

President Henry B. Eyring dedicated the Montpelier Idaho Temple, the Church's 225th, on Oct. 18, with a promise to temple workers and a teaching that temples are evidence of a covenant-making God and a plan that reaches past mortality.

Church News · 3 min

Elder Michael Cziesla, a General Authority Seventy, presided over the Oct. 17 groundbreaking for the Vienna Austria Temple, the country's first.

Church Newsroom · 4 min

The Modesto California Temple's open house began with an Oct. 13 media day; public tours run Oct. 16 to 31 and Elder Quentin L. Cook dedicates it Nov. 22.

Church News · 4 min

The full text of the dedicatory prayer Elder Gerrit W. Gong offered for the Miraflores Guatemala City Guatemala Temple on Oct. 11, 2026.

Church Newsroom · 5 min

A five-minute Newsroom video tour of the newly completed Modesto California Temple, outside and in.

BYU Women's Conference · 29 min

Olympic skeleton medalist Noelle Pikus Pace argues that the Savior's "be ye therefore perfect" means becoming whole, not flawless, using an origami crane from a World Cup race in Japan and a family trip that went off-schedule.

Ulisses Soares · 10 min

Elder Ulisses Soares gives the closing keynote at NYU's Forum on Faith, an interfaith address arguing that recognizing everyone as children of God lets people of different religions and politics cooperate without giving up their convictions.

Church News · 4 min

At an Oct. 13 Provo MTC devotional broadcast to MTCs worldwide, Elder Gary E. Stevenson told missionaries their most important companionship is with the Book of Mormon.

Church News · 3 min

BYU opened its new Arts Building on Oct. 10 alongside the College of Fine Arts and Communication's centennial celebration.

Church News · 1 min

Church members in Panama are distributing emergency kits after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake on Oct. 9 and a 6.6 aftershock that led the government to declare a state of emergency.

Informed Saints · 59 min

Scripture Central researcher Matt Roper traces nearly two centuries of what missionaries, prophets and members said about where the Book of Mormon took place, and shows that no location was ever given by revelation.

Christian Homestead · 35 min

Jared reads from a new Deseret News special-issue magazine on missionary work and its "majesty of this moment" article, and frames the Church's missionary growth as evidence that the Second Coming is close.

Scripture Central · 33 min

Lynne Hilton Wilson walks through Jeremiah 1 to 22 by tracing its women and feminine imagery: Jerusalem as an unfaithful bride, the sister kingdoms Israel and Judah, mourning women, mothers, widows and the queen mother Nehushta.

Unshaken · 278 min

Jared Halverson walks through every chapter of Jeremiah 1 to 29, reading the book as a marriage-counseling case between a faithful Lord and an unfaithful Judah, with Jeremiah's object lessons and his persecution building to the "fire shut up in my bones" of chapter 20.

Unshaken · 35 min

A Come, Follow Me devotional that closes out five weeks on Isaiah and opens Jeremiah, with Jeremiah 1:5 as the Bible's clearest text on premortal existence and foreordination.

Church News · 12 min

A weekly Church News roundup of general conference quotes, mostly from apostles and Seventies, keyed to each Jeremiah chapter in this week's "Come, Follow Me" reading.

The Scriptures Are Real · 57 min

Kerry Muhlestein and Dr. George Pierce work through Jeremiah 1-20 for Come Follow Me, centered on Jeremiah's call, the temple sermon of chapter 7 and the two potter episodes in chapters 18 and 19.

followHIM Podcast · 4 min

A four-minute story pairing Jeremiah 18's potter with the time Elder Theodore Tuttle broke one of Elder Boyd K. Packer's carved wooden birds, and Packer's answer: "I made it. I can fix it."

Scripture Central · 39 min

John Hilton III teaches Jeremiah 1 to 20 around one question, how God's word gets deep enough in your heart to keep you going when you want to quit, using four headings: the call, the counterfeit, the choice and the clay.

followHIM Podcast · 120 min

BYU leadership professor Jeff Thompson reads Jeremiah as a case study in leading people who have the agency not to follow, built on BYU's "Christ-centered leader" model of love, agency and accountability, and ends with his own story of three of four children leaving the Church.