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BYU players walk off the field as their hopes of a perfect season are crushed by Kansas at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo on Saturday Nov. 16, 2024. Kansas won 17-13. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Few losses in the long, sometimes glorious and sometimes maddening history of BYU football will be remembered as painfully as Saturday night’s 17-13 setback to the Kansas Jayhawks at LaVell Edwards Stadium.
Call it simply being unlucky.
Call it mistake-filled.
Call it the clock striking midnight on BYU’s magical season at 11:37 p.m. MST, some 23 minutes to spare before Cinderella turned into a team that couldn’t find paydirt when it mattered most.
Call it offensive ineptitude in the red zone finally catching up to the Cougars, as it almost did in last week’s 22-21 win over rival Utah.
Looking for someone to blame? There’s plenty of that to go around, too.
As some of the pundits on social media who have been calling BYU’s 9-0 start a whole lot of smoke and mirrors gleefully extolled, the Cougars had nine lives, but not a 10th, in front of a sellout crowd of 62,704 on a freezing night in Provo.
Two plays — one boneheaded and the other just unfortunate — are the primary reasons why BYU (9-1, 6-1) heads to Tempe, Arizona, next week without its perfect record intact.
“Way too many mistakes for us to come out with the victory,” Cougars coach Kalani Sitake said.
That’s an understatement.
BYU players walk off the field as their hopes of a perfect season are crushed by Kansas at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo on Saturday Nov. 16, 2024. Kansas won 17-13. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
BYU fans stand dejected as BYU’s hopes of a perfect season are crushed by Kansas at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo on Saturday Nov. 16, 2024. Kansas won 17-13. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Kansas Jayhawks head coach Lance…
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