It has been a wild couple of weeks in college football, but what happened on Saturday in Orlando — a UCF Knights double-overtime win over the BYU Cougars — might be the craziest thing yet.
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After a big win over Notre Dame and Top 10 teams dropping like flies last weekend, the BYU Cougars found themselves coming into Week 8 at No. 2 in the nation.
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On Saturday, they headed down to Orlando, Florida, to take on Scott Frost's UCF Knights.
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The 3-3 Knights have struggled in the Big 12 since joining the conference, but tend to be better at home in the friendly confines of the Acrisure Bounce House.
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The Cougars opened the scoring when quarterback Bear Bachmeier hit wide receiver Kyler Kasper for six.
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But UCF managed to hold them through the rest of the first quarter and then answered with a touchdown of their own in the second, when Knights running back Landen Chambers broke through a notoriously solid BYU defensive line on the goal line.
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After forcing BYU to punt, UCF managed to drive deep into Cougar territory, but failed to get into the endzone.
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They settled for a field goal attempt on fourth-and-goal.
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While kicker Will Stone got the job done to give the Knights a 10-7 lead, the decision to play it safe drew boos from the home fans.
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They may have had a point because Bachmeier lowered his head and burst into the end zone on the following possession.
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UCF ended the half with another red zone drive coming off of an interception, only this time they didn't have to settle for a field goal.
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QB Keyone Jenkins found Chambers through the air for six.
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That plus an extra point meant that UCF took a 17-14 lead to the locker room at halftime.
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This was the third time they led or were tied with a ranked opponent at the half this season, but went on to lose both games.
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In the second half — with rain falling — BYU scored on their first drive, but UCF answered right back to regain their three-point lead.
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BYU settled for a field goal to tie the game at 24-24.
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A couple of drives later, a short punt gave UCF good field position with 8:50 left in the game.
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What followed was an 11-play drive that set up a fourth-down play on the goal line.
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The Knights held the Cougars deep in their own end, but they flipped the field with a booming punt ahead of UCF's final drive of regulation.
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Johnson then led the offense downfield and into kicker Will Stone's field goal range.
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On second-and-ten, it appeared that Jenkins had fumbled and it was recovered by BYU; however, upon review, it was overturned and ruled an incomplete pass.
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On top of that, BYU defensive tackle Keanu Tanuvasa was assessed an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty that gave the Knights a fresh set of downs and moved them up to the BYU 28-yard line.
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After a few plays to bleed time off the clock, UCF brought out the kicking unit on third down, but the kick was blocked and recovered behind the line of scrimmage.
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With Stone's helmet coming off and no flag on the play, the half came to an end because of a ten-second run-off, and it was off to overtime.
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UCF won the toss and elected to get the ball second.
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On third-and-13, Bachmeier hit Legend Glasker to put the Cougars ahead.
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But it didn't last long because on UCF's first play, Jenkins scrambled for his life, then found receiver Josh Derry in the endzone.
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The PAT was good, and the OT continued.
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Stone returned and kicked a field goal, but BYU's Kendal Wall was called for roughing the kicker, giving the Knights a fresh set of downs, and it only took two plays for Jenkins to hit tight end Grayson Brousseau — who grew up fifteen minutes from Provo — for the touchdown, and then was successful on the mandated two-point attempt.
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In their second OT possession, BYU's undefeated season and No. 2 ranking came down to a single play, and UCF managed to hang on for the biggest win over a ranked team in program history.
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That throws a huge wrench into the rankings and playoff picture, and it had the potential to rejuvenate UCF's season as they go to 4-3 with a signature win under their belt.
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Kalani Sitake's Cougars will now look to bounce back on Halloween against the Arizona State Sun Devils, while the UCF Knights will move on to face Baylor.
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