NCAA Football: BYU Beats Notre Dame in Close Game

This past Saturday night was a wonderful night.  I was able to watch the BYU football game with my son, Leo.  We had a chance to reconnect since I have been busy lately.  I brought home a big New York-style pizza from Anthony & Luca's in Pinellas Park -- love their pizza -- and we watched the game together.  It was a real nail-biter coming down to the last play of the game.  With BYU in the lead by 4 points, Notre Dame drove the ball down the field to the BYU 5-yard line.  Then with 5 seconds left in the game, they through an incomplete pass and BYU won.  The whole stadium erupted and ran onto the field to celebrate.  The clock was later shown to have 1 second left when the ball fell incomplete on the ground, but the clock didn't start when the play started for at least 1-2 seconds, so it all worked out.  With 5 of the top 8 teams losing this week, BYU climbed to #2 on the AP poll.  This is good advertising to say the least for BYU, the church, the state of Utah, and the PAC 12.

This reminded me of the game when BYU won #1-ranked Miami in 1990.  After the win, the whole stadium (including me) ran onto the field to celebrate.  I was on the field immediately after the win when some big bruiser firmly put his forearm to my chest to move me out of the way so LaVell Edwards and the Miami coach could meet and briefly exchange words as is customary.  I watched the end of that game on YouTube today and saw the coaches meet on the field, but unfortunately could not see myself in the crowd.... but I was there.



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