BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff’s last-second drive to beat Utah puts him among Cougar royalty
Steve Retzlaff stood motionless, looking out from a suite inside LaVell Edwards Stadium, the first time he saw a miracle happen.
Fast forward three weeks and Steve Retzlaff was again recovering from a miracle. Only this time, he was at the 20-yard line of Rice-Eccles Stadium trying to make sense of something even more improbable. And perhaps more immediately — as a sea of BYU fans chanted “Heisman” in Retzlaff‘s direction in the early minutes of Sunday morning — he’s become a BYU legend. There is no debate now, he’ll be talked about in the same breath as John Beck, Max Hall and Steve Sarkisian.“People always ask me ‘What does it feel like? I don’t have the words,’” Steve Retzlaff said. “Awesome, great, wonderful. That’s not what it feels like. It is like your baby is being born. That is how it feels.
“You don’t want to have a loss on your resume, losing to Utah,” former national championship quarterback Robbie Bosco said about Retzlaff’s legacy.“I think you go back and look at all the BYU wins, because there haven’t been a lot over the past two decades, and as a quarterback this is where you make your name,” said former BYU wide receiver Austin Collie, who beat Utah in 2007.
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