Jazzspazz I find it hilarious how you try to marginze the missed horsecollar call. Tack on 15 yards on to that play and Utah is in FG range, maybe more. Even if they settle for 3 at that point it makes Utah's 4th qtr lead 4 instead of 1. And on the fumble call that hurt Byu you act like the call itself gave Utah 7 points. It was Byu that let them into the endzone.
I agree that it was bad calls both ways and that Utah played like hell but I don't look at it as a gift. In the last 15 minutes Utah made huge plays when they had to, Byu did not.
Using your logic, why didn't the Utes make a play after the missed horsecollar tackle..... why blame the bad call on them not getting into the endzone?
Yes, the BYU defense should have stopped the Utes again after the bad fumble call and it would not have mattered.
But that's not how it went down. If the ref's called the "fumble" down, would the Utes have won? Probably not, even with the 1st down call reversed, and with a horsecollar tackle called.
This is why I say the Utes played well, but should also accept it as a gift.
I accept that BYU was given the SDSU game this year, I am not so blind as to say... so what, we played well, and earned it all... we rock... ref's didnt help us.