accurate. I saw one or two articles that said this, and now this exaggeration seems to have become the conventional wisdom.

BYU never trailed vs Baylor and led by a wide margin most of the game. They did let them back in it late, and only won by 6 points in the end, but it isn’t as if BYU needed a miracle comeback or a bad call to squeak by at the end. Nor did Baylor miss a game-winning FG late in the game, nor were they really ever close to scoring a game-winning TD late in the game. On that final BYU interception that sealed the game, Baylor was throwing the ball in desperation from their own 29 yard line. Per ESPN, the lowest that BYU’s probability of winning ever got in the 2nd half was 68.1%.

If winning by 6 points now = “almost losing”, then so be it, but please apply this criteria consistently to all teams.