Toledo brings MAC-tion to Provo and its glorious

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Toledo brings MAC-tion to Provo and its glorious

It's a shame the Toledo-BYU Louis Lipps Jersey game ended around 2 a.m. ET Saturday. Most of the nation (and one ESPN broadcaster)mi sed one of the wildest endings of the college football season.In the last two minutesalone, there weretwo blown calls by officials;a drama-filled two-point conversion; curious clock management; and a game-winning field goal that was too close for comfort.MORE: Add it all up, and you get BYU 55, Toledo 53.Toledo (3-1) was in position to win, andremain undefeated, after taking a 53-52 leadwith 1:11 to play in the fourth quarter. To get to that point, though, the Rockets first had to convert a fourth down in BYU territory. Logan Woodside connected with Jon'Vea Johnson on an 18-yard pa s to the BYU 23.Problem is, Johnson stepped out of bounds, then came back in, before catchingthe ball. He should have been called for illegal touching, which would have resulted in a lo s of down,a turnover by the Rockets, and a chance for BYU (2-3) to run out the clock.BYU beat not only The Toledo Rockets, but also the MAC Zebras! Jared Brady (@JaredBrady2) Two plays later, Kareem Hunt scored on a 7-yard run. With his team no doubt ga sed playing at altitude in Utah, Rockets coach Jason Candle decided to go for two and the lead.BENDER: When Woodside dropped the snap on the conversion, it looked like that bra sine swould be for naught. Woodside, though, kept Cameron Heyward Jersey his composure, kept his knee off the groundand threw a strike to Michael Roberts for the deuce.BYU received the ensuing kickoff andbegan its final driveatits 27. The no-defense format of this game the teams ultimatelycombined for 1,278yards of offense,692 by Toledothe Cougars were likelyto get the ball close to field-goal range. They didn't really need help from the MAC officiating crew, which deemed this tackle J.J. Wilcox Jersey a facemask . . . RT : This was called a facemask penalty on Toledo Dustin Hughes (@Vtnova) . . . And put the ball at the Toledo 17.So there was controversy aplenty. ESPN had itself some drama. Surely game analystMack Brown hadsome thoughts. Mack? Where'd you go?Mack Brown left the booth in Toledo-BYU game in 4th quarter for tomorrow's a signment --I've not seen that before Keith Morehouse (@KeithMorehouse) Brown had bowed out, on-air, long ago (). Red-eye to Bristol, we gue s.He's not down to do agame Saturday . That makes play-by-play manAdam Amin and sideline reporter Molly McGraththe real MVPs of the night, as they had to make sense out of all this without Stephon Tuitt Jersey a seasoned football man to help them.MORE: Anyway, BYU was in field goal range (about 35 yards) with 38 seconds remaining after a Rockets timeout. With Toledo no longer able to stop the clock, the Cougarscould have run it down to the final seconds,maybe after running a sneak into the middle of the field. Or, they could havesaved a few ticksto account for a po sible bad snap on the field goal.But nooooo,BYU tried to Mike Wagner Jersey score a dang touchdown (and leave time for Toledo)! It ran FOUR more plays, including a quarterback bootleg that ended out of bounds, all of which could have resulted in a fumble. It also called all three of its timeouts in the proce s.Finally, the ball sat at the Toledo 2 with two seconds to go. BYU lined up for a19-yarder . . .FROM JUST INSIDE THE LEFT HASH . . .WHERE YOU CAN HOOK THE BALL ANDFinal score: Toledo 53 55 Williams sets school single game rushing record DavidKWilliams (@DavidKWilliams) Rhett Almond for the win. Game over. Just nuts.MAC-tion, baby (at least on one side of this party). Never change.
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