UCF Stuns No. 2 BYU Amid Officiating Controversy

UCF beat No. 2 BYU 39-31 in double overtime, but the game was marked by two disputed officiating decisions. At the end of regulation, officials imposed a 10-second runoff after UCF kicker Will Stone recovered a blocked field goal and lost his helmet, ending the Knights’ chance to try again; a rules analyst said the runoff was incorrect because the play also ended a legal kick down, meaning UCF should have retained the ball on fourth down. In the second overtime, a roughing-the-kicker penalty against BYU’s Kendal Wall after a made UCF field goal gave the Knights another set of downs, which they turned into the winning touchdown and two-point conversion. The calls intensified scrutiny of Big 12 officiating after the conference had recently acknowledged a separate end-of-game clock error in BYU’s win over Notre Dame.