Second and long situation they help out utah. Brent first down and ten for the utes, play action. Wilson has his underneath man and for a good gain on first down, you could see that play coming from a mile away. Jesse Travis Wilson is a situation, the game hes got to be on, only fouryear starter in utah history. I think his career would be defined as one where hes shown tremendous toughness and resiliency. Hes been through it all. A serious head injury in his sophomore career almost ended his career and overcame that but because of inconsistent play hes been criticized often. Every offseason hes had to rewin his job and here he is in his final holy war up two touchdowns, hell have to play well to close it out and get the w. Brent second down and five. First down is critical for utah. Williams did not get it. A host of blue jerseys. Meeting him in the hole and now it is third down coming up here for wilson and the utes. Jesse if i were byu i would give hannemann some help. Their cornerback, number 7, left him out on some critical third downs in these scenarios. Safety help, linebacker help underneath. Right now matched up against the true freshman, 64, tyron smith thats got a tremendous catch radius and mantoman situation and a place i guarantee Travis Wilson is thinking about. If hes going to throw this. Brent third down, here comes the blitz, wilson underneath has got the first down and then some. Out of bounds around midfield was joe williams as the rush came to him and then wilson just ate it up. Jesse its a nice job by Travis Wilson being patient. Whenever youre setting up the screen you have to hold on to the ball till the last possible second. Draw those defenders into you as much as you can and negotiate the throw. Thats not always easy to do when youve got Bronson Kaufusi at 68 right in your face, a little sidearm delivery to get that out to his running back was nice by wilson. Brent huge first down here. Scott moves in motion for the utes. Just across midfield. Thats hannemann off a corner blitz, and he destroyed the quarterback. Back at the 35 yard line. Wilson is forced to hang on to that football. Jesse gutsy call by utah. Up two touchdowns. Seven minutes to go and youre throwing the football on first down. Coming right off the edge. A changeup. Talked about how byu is so multiple. They bring pressures from all over the yard. Linebacker, safeties, cornerbacks and hannemann has been picked on in the passing game today making a great play coming off the blitz. Brent now 6 48 left. Byu, their defense lines up. Utah facing a second and 19. Now they come back with williams and he gets back to midfield near the about two yards shy. Third down and 12. Kaufusi making another stop. Jesse clock management is key here and utah and Travis Wilson have to do a better job of snapping the football with close to no time left on the play clock. Its byu that has to go fast. Theyre down two touchdowns. Important utah i know they like to go up tempo themselves but theyve got to slow it way down right now to suffocate Bronco Mendenhall and this byu team. Brent third down and 12. Wilson steps away from the pressure has got a man wide open but he is short of the first down so now youve got a fourth down and inches situation with a great punter like hackett. You try and bury byu inside the 10 or try to pick up looks like theyll try to go for it on a fourth and short. Jesse the last time during this scenario they didnt block Bronson Kaufusi and made a big stop. No matter what get a hat on number 90 and byu has lined up, it looks like, in the interior of the defensive line anticipating run. Brent now theyre letting it run down. Jesse this is a huge fourth down here. Brent absolutely. Jesse if you convert it. Brent hes going to stop it. Jesse you could eat up a lot of clock if youre able to convert. Definitely worth burning a timeout. Brent now brings the offense over to the sideline here on fourth down and short. Up two touchdowns, five minutes. Theres a holy fourth down coming your way when we come back to las vegas. The possibility of a flare swas almost always on my mind. Thinking about what to avoid, where to go. And how to deal with my uc. To me, that was normal. Until i talked to my doctor. She told me that humira helps people like me get uc under control and keep it under control when certain medications havent worked well enough. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. Before treatment, get tested for tb. Tell your doctor if youve been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if youve had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flulike symptoms or sores. Dont start humira if you have an infection. Raise your expectations. Ask your gastroenterologist about humira. With humira, control is possible. The bold nissan rogue, with intuitive allwheel drive. Because winter needs a hero. Now get 0 financing for up to 60 months on the 2015 nissan rogue. Nissan. Innovation that excites. Jesse im going to tell you this critical fourth and one, scenario would love to have Devontae Booker in their backfield. One of the really good runners. Joe williams lined up beside wilson. Brent and did they stop him . The cougars think so. Lets see where its spotted. The forward progress. That is critical here. Cougar sideline still thinks hes come up short. You can see them signaling. How huge is this. Theyll bring the chains up. Looked there like it was a little short. Jesse logan taele did an unbelievable job fighting off two blockers and anchoring in the middle so there was no push and allowed the linebackers including manoa pikula to come in and make a play. This is close. Brent nope. Nope. Jesse number 62 makes this play. Logan taele. Brent ill go back to your point about booker. Its such a good one, second fourth and one that byu has suffered in the last two drives. Jesse i really believe if booker is in the game hes the guy that can kind of get the push, get the forward leaning momentum. So many yards he was able to get this offense but ill go back to taele. He takes on two blockers at the point of attack. And that cleaned it up for two linebackers to play downhill and make that stop. Huge play by byus d. Brent five minutes to work with trailing by a couple of scores. Going oneonone and deep jump ball and kurtz was the receiver. No penalty flag. Porter had the coverage. Jesse i think utah has to change their philosophy on defense. Talked about all game long letting their corners outside play mantoman. Thats got to stop. Now is the time where you back off, get two safeties to get double coverage help on guys like nick kurtz and Mitch Mathews because it just takes one, it takes one play for them to come down with it and theyre in the end zone. Got to be defensive. Brent dropped. Perfect strike and juergens turned to move and dropped the football so here comes your third and ten. That pass rush again for utah critical. Jesse fitts, jason fanaika, off the edge. Has to make disrupt the timing of Tanner Mangum. Get him off his launch point. Contain him and keep him in the pocket. Brent third down. Diving for it is houk. Got the first down. Terrific run after the catch. Moved the chains and here come the cougars again. Jesse hes too big. Hes got a nineinch height advantage over the slot defender Justin Thomas and just cant defend him. Hes got too big of a body. Cant tackle him. That gets the first, size advantage at receiver. Its big. Brent five receivers out. Putting heat on the cougars offensive line. Jesse got to go, though, you got to hurry up if youre byu. Too much time. That took way too much time to get lined up. Brent middle incomplete and there was pressure by that defensive front. What a luxury and now weve got an injured norris. One of their fine linebackers. Now hes up. Bounces up. Didnt need medical attention. Tough. Jesse second team allconference player. This situation is critical for utahs defense to have him on the field. Brent the cougars have got to pick it up. Need not one score but two to get back into it. Play action, looking deep. Throws that jump ball into the right corner. Blackmon, first and goal at the 4 yard line. How about that . Jesse youve got to have safety help if youre utah. You cannot allow your cornerbacks to stay outside oneonone trying to fight with these cornerbacks. That is the perfect throw from Tanner Mangum. Its basically a punt but hes allowing his receiver blackmon to turn around and locate defender on the play, marcus williams, the safety, just cant locate the ball and theres the explosive play byu needed. Brent clock is down to 3 38. That fiveyard play made it first and goal. Incomplete and bernard was the target, slipping out of that backfield again. I got to tell you when they pick the mvp even though he threw those pick sixes in the First Quarter, youre going to have at least consider mangum. Jesse i dont think he threw a bad interception. A lot were tipped. Deflected at the line of scrimmage. A guy kind of hit his arm. But ill tell you hes battled this entire game. Something Tanner Mangum has done all season long. Got thrown into the fire week one against nebraska. Battled every week. Brent second down and goal. Mangum on a draw. Did he get it . Juggling the ball. Touchdown is the signal. They give him the touchdown. I was waiting for the linesman coming down. Jesse reminds me of john elway in the super bowl against the Green Bay Packers where he dove and he got helicoptered. Slides backwards all game long. Ooh. I think the football might have just been a tad short of that goal line, brent, before it became dislodged. Watch the nose of the ball. Oh, no, it broke. Brent theres in question. Its a touchdown. Jesse it broke before his knee hit the ground. It comes loose after. Its not going to be ruled a fumble. The question did the ball break the plane before his knee hit. The ruling on the field is a touchdown. Something theyll take a look at. What can you say about byu here in the second half . 28 points, brent. Brent this might not make it. Might not get back but i got to tell you something, i have been around many teams that have played their hearts out like this down 350 in the First Quarter so that matter what happens here hats off to them. Jesse adds to the legacy of this great, great rivalry, doesnt it . Brent it sure does. Jesse the holy war. I wish more College Football fans knew about it. Rivalries like this. Referee after review the ruling on the field is confirmed. Touchdown. Headon look from the back of the end zone that shows his knee doesnt touch. Better angle to show the football breaks the plane. What a game. This has been awesome. Brent Trevor Samson tacks it on. A onescore game. Lets check in with John Saunders in the studio. Big john. Brent, youre providing excitement once again as expected. Meanwhile, we have ohio u. Against app last state, lam picked off by poling taking it back for a touchdown. And well continue to update that one. Meanwhile, you can see arizona hold on for the victory. Brent, back to you. Brent you are looking live at the royal purple loil and look what we found. A onescore game. Now, jesse. Do they onsidic can. Their defense has played so well. You got 3 23. You can afford utah thinks its going to be onside. Jesse you got two timeouts in your back pocket with the way the defense is playing, absolutely kick it down the field, play defense trusting that Tanner Mangum is at least going to get one more opportunity with the ball. Brent there is a lot of daylight just behind that front if they can get the ball up in the air and chase it down. One deep now. One deep man standing back by the utes. 24 yard line. They got to kick the line drive. It was close to that marker. 6 theyre conferring here to make sure it went in the end zone. Penalty, oh, my goodness. Jesse what a mistake by byu. Brent the one thing you cant do is kick that ball out of bounds. Referee out of bounds. On the kicking team. Brent i have to say it was so close. When i watched that take a look at this, jesse. I want to make absolutely certain. Jesse its definitely close. Its hard to tell. You know, from that it did look like it kind i guess the half yard line. From these angles definitely difficult to see but you know my point, brent. Why not just kick it straight down the field. Just kick it overtop. Brent nobody back there. Just kick it and it hits the ground and get down on coverage. Jesse an automatic touchback. Brent here we go. 3 23 to go. Here comes the blitz. They blitz the run. Great by williams. Good first down run. Jesse theyre going to put it in his hands and again joe williams has to be good with ball security. He fumbled twice in the last two games. Ball security right now, goes without saying is at a premium for utah. Brent you know, i want to talk about virginia. In the First Quarter back in charltonsville i heard fans say, oh, no. Ill tell you right now Bronco Mendenhall is a quality, quality person and very good football coach. This team did not quit on him today when they were out of it, 350. You have hired yourself an outstanding head coach and remember hes going to bring six aassistants with him to charlottesville coming in and coach ruffin is coming in to help him also, he retained one of the coaches and lets take a look. This is the staff thats going with bronco at the end of this game, Ruffin Mcneal was hired. Haggans was retained from that Coaching Staff so second down now for utah. Ans was retained f Coaching Staff so second down now for utah. Second down and four. Slips a tackle. Didnt get the first down. A third down. Remember, they have stopped them twice on fourth down because perhaps the best weapon in tom hackett. Jesse right. Heres an interesting dilemma if youre utah. Obviously youre going to run the football. The question is which direction do you run it . In my opinion the best side of utahs offensive line in the run game is the left side. Sam tevi very and isaac asiata. Thats the side that Bronson Kaufusi will line up because he always lines up to the field. Brent a new definition of new years eve as the new years six and two of the best days you could ever have if youre a College Football fan. Theres your new years lineup. Theres your new years day lineup. I cant remember six better games ever in a twoday period. Jesse epic. Must watch tv. We talked about the semifinal games. Houston is an Excellent Team and will give Florida State everything they want. Two of the most storied programs in history. Stanford and iowa is a tremendous physical clash in matchup and then you have oklahoma state, lost their final two games in ole miss. Brent your third down and one. Late pitch, williams got the angle for the first down. Jesse ran to the left side. To the field attacking Bronson Kaufusi but running with the option and it was sae tautu. Watch 31. Hes the guy that Travis Wilson will read. Holes it till the last second gives it to williams. The advantage he has over Devontae Booker. Might not be as powerful but faster and that was a perfect play call. Dont go inside the tackles where theyve been stopped. Brent first down and ten from the 47 yard line from the utes searching for that one last first down. Williams bursts two good games on first down. That just makes it so much easier when youre trying to kill the clock. Byu out of timeouts. Jesse if i could Say Something in the big picture of College Football. Rivalry games make this sport great and feel like conference realignment as fans we got robbed of some great games, oklahom oklahom oklahoma texas a m and we didnt get this last year or during the regular season. Lucky to get it today. Well get it next year. The future scheduling is uncertain. I hope these two schools can figure it out and put it back on the map. One of my favorite games of the year. Brent amen. Second down and five. Williams, bursts for the first down. Jesse thats going to do it, i think. They can take three knees now and run this clock out. 15 times in the last 18 games the holy war comes down to seven points or last. Tremendous job by joe williams finding the crease. Up 350. Byu stormed back at the end of the day. Kyle whittingham and his team were able to hold on to take it home. Brent byu with 386 yards of offense. Utah with 199 but they wrap up consecutive royal purple Las Vegas Bowl victories. Kyle whittingham beats his alma mater but it wasnt easy. Byu did not give up. Demonstrated great heart against the utes who were favored only by a couple in this game and it looked like it was going to be a blowout early and the cougars came roaring back. Late touchdown in the first half and sort of gave them a life and then they shut utah out in the second half but they could not overcome as you seldom can five turnovers on their first five possessions. The great coach nick saban, ask him about turnovers, mississippi and five so utah with backtoback victories here in las vegas and head coaches will meet to shake hands and a reminder to fans tune in to espn3 for the postgame trophy ceremony presented by capital one immediately following this game. There are the players. You know what i love about the end of this one, folks, is that we do not have any extracurricular activities. Theres a some great friends on the team. Theyre shaking hands. We didnt have a lot of ugly personal fouls as we go down below to maria taylor with the winning coach. Maria you were up big early but its a rivalry game and they stormed back. Whats going through your mind . A little ridiculous on our part to go out 350 and have it end like this. Shouldnt have been that way. Credit them for hanging in there, never giving up. Continuing to fight and we got some we got some things to fix with our offense, no doubt about that. Maria what allowed your team to hang on to that lead despite the fact it went down . Just enough left in the tank. We got a lot of seniors taking a lot of pride in what theyre doing. Defense, what did we have, five straight takeaways like we talked about at halftime but a win can a win and thats all that matters, but interesting, it could be this close after getting out to a 350 lead. Maria ends up being a tenwin season. Best finish since joining the league. What will this season be defined by . I dont know what it will be defined by but another step in a positive direction. High water mark since we joined the pac12, ten wins and hopefully we can build on this for next year. Maria thanks for your time. Congrats. Thank you, appreciate it. Brent so our capital one player of the game, a young man by the name of tevin carter from los angeles, california, number 9. He intercepted two passes in that barrage of turnovers on the cougars first five possessions. And on the first one, tevin carter was able to take it back on a pick six. What a day for carter. Jesse great day for carter and this defense and led the pac12 in takeaways this year and ultimate the five turnovers and five consecutive possessions leading to five immediate touchdowns by utah, that was the big difference in this addition of the holy war. Brent so an era comes to an end at byu. Bronco mendenhall coaches his last game and now he and many of his staff will head to charlottesville, virginia, the head coach of the virginia cavaliers and everybody says the next coach at byu will be kalani sitake. And, folks, thats a big story. He was a terrific player for lavell edwards, the first edwards guy to be coming home to provo if they announce it tomorrow. But right now, its utah, of the pac12, with a bowl victory. As they win it, but it wasnt easy. Leading by 35, they held on for a 3528 victory. The 2015 royal purple Las Vegas Bowl champion is utah and they set the stage for next year, jesse. Jesse cant wait for that now. This addition, this chapter of the holy war, i think, sets up an even bigger stage for september next year. Looking forward to that. Brent see you if pasadena, my friend and you too, maria. For maria taylor and jesse palmer, im brent musburger. Oh, my friends, what a weekend here in las vegas. What looked like a blowout wound up being a dandy. So long, everybody. Im karen rogers. And im erin ohearn. Saturday tonight on fyi philly. This is so cheerful its a celebration of the holidays they are just so beautiful and bright. Well have some last minute shopping ideas for you. Its really becoming a holiday tradition. And lots of fun things to do in the city and the suburbs. Merry christmas plus we get a recipe from rachael ray. Oh, yeah and visit some restaurants perfect for last minute holiday dining. Hi everyone and happy holidays we are at peddlers village in lehaska, pa. A perfect onestop shopping place to knock off everyone on your list. If youre looking for a place in the city, there are 2 outdoor markets, this year one offering an old world taste of europe. The other all made in philly artisans