BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff gathered himself from the turf after being clobbered into the wrong end zone on fourth down. The game appeared over. For a few moments, the Utes had done the unthinkable. They spoiled their archrival’s season and ended a ...

BYU head coach Kalani Sitake thought it was all part of the game. “That’s the game of football. You can’t hold people, you know?” the coach said after beating the rival Utes 22-21. When Utah sacked Jake Retzlaff with under two minutes to play in this weekend’s rivalry game,

The BYU Cougars are still undefeated and atop the Big 12, but it took a late escape against arch rival Utah and one very controversial holding call that had Utes fans, coaches and even administrators irate.

Steaming over a defensive holding call against the Utes on BYU’s final possession, Harlan marched into the press room and declared, “I have been an athletic director for 12 years. This game was absolutely stolen from us. We won this game. Someone else stole it from us!”

The Big 12 has fined Utah athletic director Mark Harlan $40,000 after he berated the league and its officials in the wake of the Utes' 22-21 loss to BYU. The conference has also issued a public reprimand for his actions.

But a defensive holding penalty was called on the Utes and that gave the Cougars renewed life. Retzlaff drove BYU in position for Will Ferrin's game-winning 44-yard field goal with three seconds left. While Utah coach Kyle Whittingham and athletic director ...

Instead of looking at the box score and realizing that Utah blew a 21-10 lead and lost the Holy War 22-21 by not scoring a single point in the final two quarters of that game, Harlan blamed the outcome entirely on Big 12 officials.

The top two teams remain the same in this week's Big 12 Power Rankings. BYU was the unanimous top pick, receiving all 16 first-place votes from a panel of media who regularly cover the Big 12, and Colorado was second.