I had friends on that team. I’d left BYU 2 years prior. I’d met and made a friend of our FG kicker Brent Johnson. He’d had a great year before his gimme miss that would have won the Holiday Bowl. Poor guy.
I listened to that game on the radio while traveling from AZ to Idaho. It would have made this years Kansas game seem like a really clean game. Dropped passes, fumbles, turnovers, tons of penalties. A very sloppy night preceded Johnson’s big miss. (Remember in those days there was no indoor practice facility. The team sure sounded like they hadn’t practiced much and were out of sync)