Saturday, November 24, 2007

BYU 17, Utah 10

After three boring quarters, things finally got interesting when Utah drove 69 yards down the field for the first touchdown of the game and ate up more than 7min off the clock. That put Utah ahead 10 to 9. The BYU offense took over at their own 20 yard line with 1:30 left in the game. On the first play Hall was sacked and the next two downs were incomplete passes. That brought up 4th and and a very long 18. Hall took the snap from the shotgun, shuffled out of the pocket to his right and found Austin Collie all alone at midfield for a 49 yard pass. The stadium went wild! A few plays later, Harvey Unga (a freshman) ran 11 yards up the middle for the touchdown. That put BYU up by 5. But there was still too much time on the clock. If we made a two-point conversion, it would force Utah to get a touchdown and the PAT to tie the game. BYU takes a time out and then comes back for the two-point try. Once again Hall finds Collie, this time in the back of the end-zone for two points! Utah took the ball back and the last play was a desperate Hail-Mary to the endzone, but it wasn't enough. Time expired and the fans swarmed the field.



Jenni decided to fall asleep on the ride home rather than listen to the post-game show on KSL.

2 comments:

Lizzie said...

WAHOO! Rise & Shout! As you know, we don't have a TV. So, JT was refreshing the ESPN page on the internet every two seconds to see what was happening! It was intense there at the end, but I'm SO happy BYU won! Go Cougars.

Oh, and poor Jenni. :)

Sister Abby Bowler said...

What a great game it was--two years in a row! Go Cougs!