When BYU Football was up 27-7 late in the third quarter against Utah last November, it had one of those “too good to be true” kind of feelings. Here was BYU, on a seven game losing streak against the Utes, leading them in Rice-Eccles Stadium with just over a quarter left in the game.
Then the wheels fell off.
It seemed as if BYU could do nothing right and the Utes could do nothing wrong to finish out the game. The play calling changed, the offensive production stopped and the defense was unable to slow down an offense that had scored zero points in the first 43 minutes of the game.