The other schools never really had a chance. Sorensen grew up in a household immersed in the blue and white of both Bingham and BYU. He is the eighth of nine children, all of them with "J" names — Jeff, Jody, Julie, Jared, Jenny, Jake, Jesse, Justin and Josh (mom is Jill but, alas, dad is Kent — "so we call him Jose," says Justin).

They all made their mark at Bingham. Among the Sorensen children, there has been a student body president, a football team captain, a homecoming king, a valedictorian, two cheerleaders, several student body officers, and football and soccer players.

They cheered for Bingham on Friday night and BYU on Saturday. They have been BYU season-ticket holders for 25 years, sitting "in the worst seats in the house — on the top row left of the Jumbotron," says Sorensen. "We can't see the replays, and we have to bring binoculars to see the field." The Sorensens had to take those seats because there was nowhere else they could find the 50 or so tickets they needed to accommodate cousins, aunts and uncles.

Next year they will have two of their own to cheer for at BYU — Justin and his cousin Danny Sorensen, a safety from California — provided Justin can arrive there in one piece.

For Peck, it's worrisome enough that Sorensen is an avid unicyclist who rides contraptions that range in height from a few feet to 10 feet, but he also rides down mountainsides and jumps off rocks. He likes to take the unicycle up the Snowbird tram, for instance, and ride to the bottom of the canyon, cutting his own trail and jumping off anything he can find. He has jumped off heights as high as 18 feet.

After watching his kicker jump off a five-foot stage onto the floor during a school assembly just before the state playoffs last fall, Peck scolded Sorensen and ordered him to stay off the unicycle for the rest of the football season.

"I chewed him out," says Peck. "I laid it on him."

Sorensen gave the coach a scare a couple of weeks later when he showed up at his office on crutches with his foot in a boot. Peck shot out of his chair and approached Sorensen. "This better be a prank," Peck said, unsmiling.

"Coach, I was riding my unicycle and tore my Achilles tendon, and ... " At this point, Sorensen, seeing his coach's face, abandoned the prank, threw down the crutches and started running, with Peck in hot pursuit.

"I was like, 'Oh, this is too scary!"' he recalls of Peck's reaction.

"He got me," says Peck. "I can laugh about it now."

Much to his coach's relief, Sorensen showed up this season fit and ready for kicking duties.

He practiced kicking four days a week throughout the summer, usually alone. His routine consisted of kicking each of the eight footballs he brought to the field, then retrieving them and starting again until he had kicked as many as 120 times in a single session.

"I definitely want to see how good I can be at this," he says.