Pasadena, Calif. • On a night when BYU had a chance to win in thrilling fashion for a third straight week, this time against 10th-ranked UCLA at the Rose Bowl, Cougars quarterback Tanner Mangum threw a late interception that killed that chance.
Suddenly, the thrill was gone.
Down by the count of 24-23, on a fourth-and-7 play, Mangum was picked off by Bruins linebacker Myles Jack at the UCLA 29-yard line, ending the Cougars' threat.
But that ending wasn't really on him. The defeat wasn't on him.
It fell, rather, at the feet and in the hands and on the shoulders of BYU's defense, a group that could not hang onto a 23-17 lead late in the game.