Somehow, it did.
BYU found a way to beat a team in the most improbable way, adding to a long history of miraculous endings, winning a game in a manner Jim McMahon and Steve Young and Ty Detmer would be proud of. It won a game it couldn't win. Nebraska hadn't lost a home opener for 29 seasons, and with a minute remaining, it didn't look like it would taste defeat now. But the streak was stopped on Saturday here, at Memorial Stadium, on a pass Tanner Mangum called "wobbly." It wasn't his best throw, he said, but it might end up being his most remarkable.