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BYU football: Big block for Cougars
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Three officials throwing flags at the same time?
First flag thown against Washington in the game at 0:02 left in the fourth quarter?
Yep, the officials gave the game to BYU.
Washing played a perectly clean game, no penalties whatsoever.
Give me a break.
Has UNLV won more than 2 games any year since Sanford's been there? I bet they're grateful they get to play Utah every year.......
I usually go for the classy comments, but these Ute fans are unreal. I'd love to see their same comments had they beat Washington the same way. I bet they'd be just the same, right Utes? I bet they'd rip the officials after they were the beneficiaries.....
Oh, gotta go. Watching tv....looks like Collie's still open....
2. I saw Utah and BYU play in the Rose Bowl and can tell you the refs hosed both teams. They do anything they can to build up their BCS Pac 10 conference.
3. The PAC 10 is the only conference that insists on its own refs home or away for non- conference games. Seems like they are afraid of a fair fight.
4. The blocked point after attempt didn�t keep the Huskies from winning, it stopped them from going into OT and no Husky fan knows that their team would have won in OT.
5. Stop blaming the Husky kicker; Jorgensen said the whole defensive line had a great push into their backfield and if he hadn�t have blocked it another linemen would have blocked it.
Not having a dog in this fight I must say that the penalty was so weird. The guy who scored the td did not throw it at the crowd, or at the other team, or... but threw it down behind his back! and then celebrated with his fellow players.
Bad call. The extra point would have been a gimme...
not a good call
I don't like winning like that either, but I feel much better knowing it wasn't a judgment call. Rules are rules no matter how stupid they are. And the Cougs were all over that blocked kick!
To all of the byu fans getting mad at a U fan for coming on your thread, go look at any of ours! byu fans almost always outnumber U fans with insults, name calling and my dad can beat your dad comments. Bottom line, bywho had an out of conferance game against an unranked team and you barely won, making the MWC look bad. Utah won by 2 against Michigan and we ran out the clock instead of winning by 5.
I hope byu keeps winning, it will make the Utah win all that more fun in Nov.
UCLA will not bring the freshman team with them next week as washington had to due to injuries. UCLA is bigger more experanced, better than wahington. hopefully this doesn't bring doome next week.
bronco and the crew has a lot to do before next week. think no big plays no give aways.
I know Ute fans are mad, but think of all the teams around the country that usually get hosed by the PAC 10 home town officials.
Great Victory!
End of Story
I was glad to see BYU pull it out. But it was a hollow victory against a team that has had its share of bad breaks, including the young man (Huskies' DB #15) who was seriously injured today.
BYU Fans, show some class. I can't believe you're whining about a win!
The call on the QB from Washington was the correct call as he didn't just toss the the ball to the side. Instead he thrrew it up in the air 20 +or- feet. By the current rules that is unsportsman-like. Too bad he didn't just drop it and hug his teammates. It is sad to hear the simple cop-out, "It was the ref's fault!" Man up to your own mistakes and learn from them and maybe next time you will acquire your desired result. If you disagree with the rules then try to change them. Don't hate the player, hate the game!
Go Cougs and Utes, BUST SOME BCS CHOPS!!!
By the way, congrats to Utah for their win. I am looking forward to a great showdown later this year. Go Utes and Cougars!!!
But for today I give BYU props, things happen in games so no excuses, BYU won.
Utah took care of UNLV just as I thought they would by thumping them. Right now Utah does look like the better team in the state of Utah and I dont say that because I'm a Ute fan, just saying it from what I've seen on the field thus far.
UCLA will have two weeks to pick apart this mediocre BYU team. It's going to be ugly.
An unimpressive win over a high school team and a squeaker over a PAC-10 bottom dweller. Very nice cougies.
Bad call, BYU got lucky, they will lose next week. Time for a slice of humble pie I would say.
Are you insane? I was at the game. He tossed it over his shoulder. If the rule says an infraction occurs when "the ball is thrown high into the air," the refs missed this one. I've seen MUCH more blatant celebrations in other games with no call made.
BYU played a little better than Washington, yes. But the refs made the wrong call - clearly.
DEFENCE is also correct, according to my Webster's dictionary.
Secondly, Washington had EVERYTHING to play for. Their season was on the line, their coaches job is on the line. They played their little doggie hearts out. BYU, on the other hand, stumbled and bumbled with all their talent. But they won and by the way, they got so much penetration up front, the extra point from 10 yards would have been blocked also! Truth. Washington will go about 500 hundred this year. Michigan will go about 500 hundred this year. BYU and Utah played fairly equal teams over two weeks. BYU and Utah are about equal (maybe an edge to Utah this year...). The outcomes of two years worth of games head to head shows that.
Two huge (uncharateristic, "unlucky") fumbles by Unga at the most unopportune times.
Quality special teams play is important. It wins and loses games.
Just ask Michigan about ("Lucky"?) Louie at the U.
"The Washington QB "threw the ball up in the air 20+ or - feet"???
Are you insane? I was at the game."
And the rest of us have seen the replay many times...
I guess you see only what you want to see. Check out the replay yourself, and then post.
In the meantime, the rest of us accept your apology.
Too bad that UW's quarter back couldn't just drop the ball like every other player in college football does after a big score. He forced the ref's. They know what they are required to call. That still certainly didn't guarantee BYU the win. The cougars earned it today either way.
What a total surprise...
Anyone care to mention to ESPN tha a non-PAC 10 team traveling to a PAC-Stadium with PAC-10 refs and gets a "W", it counts as a "W"???
That's like saying it's meaningful that Fox News is sayin nice things about the Republican Presidential ticket... Or BET is saying that Obama would make a good President.
Was there a hold on the PAT attempt? I didn't say there wasn't but I thought the game was called pretty evenly.
I'm certain you didn't mean my comments were stupid and that you were alluding to someone else, so I won't take offense.
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Try it again without all the cute seventh-grade name calling.