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With All Eyes on Them, Coastal Carolina and BYU Deliver a Game to Remember

Soon enough, the final stages of this strange college football season will belong to the usual suspects—the blueblood programs from the power conferences that always command all the attention. But Saturday, the sport belonged to two fresh, intrepid interlopers who dared risk undefeated seasons and wound up producing the best game of 2020.

Totally on the fly.

Give all the helmet stickers to Coastal Carolina and BYU for scheduling a game Wednesday and contesting it Saturday and leaving America riveted until the final play—a dramatic tackle at the 1-yard line by the Chanticleers to preserve a 22–17 triumph.