After the final seconds slid off the clock at Levi’s Stadium on Friday night, the Utah Utes slumped away in disappointment, dark skies overhead, seeming to want to get out of the lights splashing down on them.
One by one, as the Washington Huskies celebrated, the Utes wandered off a field where they had missed out on an opportunity that slipped through their hands, bounced off a leg and into the air, then was snatched by one of the celebrators, who returned it 66 yards for a pick-six. A cruel chance that, in the end, left them lurching and hurting, suffering and wondering.