Provo • BYU defensive lineman Jan Jorgensen wasn’t paying attention. As soon as Washington quarterback Jake Locker dove across goal line to score the touchdown that pulled the Huskies within a point of the Cougars in a game that BYU had previously dominated, Jorgensen began plotting how he was going to block the extra point.
“I was thinking about how I could squeeze in there, or how we could win the game in overtime,” Jorgensen recalled Tuesday. “That’s what went through my mind.”
So Jorgensen, now the defensive coordinator at Orange Coast College in California, didn’t see Locker complete his diving roll and football toss — all in the same motion, pretty much — or how several referees immediately threw their yellow penalty flags at Locker for violating Rule 8, Section 2, Article 1C of the NCAA rulebook.