TUCSON, Ariz. \u2014 Through five games of his freshman campaign, Bear Bachmeier has been as-advertised for No. 18 BYU, a 68.7% passer with 1,048 yards and seven touchdowns, just one interception, and three Big 12 freshman of the week honors.<\/p>\n
On Saturday night, the freshman was just that: a freshman.<\/p>\n
Yet somehow the youngster overcame two interceptions, calling his own No. 47 jersey with a 2-yard touchdown run with 19 seconds remaining to force overtime after rallying from a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit.<\/p>\n
With 2:55 remaining, Bachmeier directed an 11-play, 47-yard drive and \u2014 aided by a pair of pass interference penalties inside the 10 \u2014 forced overtime with his 17th carry of the night.<\/p>\n
Noah Fifita threw for 219 yards and two touchdowns with an interception. But the redshirt-junior’s pass fell off the finger tips of Javin Whatley \u2014 with BYU’s Evan Johnson in coverage \u2014 as the Cougars survived, 33-27 at Arizona Stadium.<\/p>\n
The comeback is what will be remembered, though.<\/p>\n
Michael Salgado-Medina and Will Ferrin exchanged field goals in the first overtime, with Ferrin nailing a 45-yarder with ease to force a second extra period.<\/p>\n
Bachmeier called his number again in the second overtime, diving in following a seven-yard run as the Cougars took a 33-27 lead.<\/p>\n
LJ Martin ran for 162 yards and a touchdown for BYU (6-0, 3-0 Big 12), topping the 600-yard mark just one quarter into the sixth game of his third collegiate season.<\/p>\n
Bachmeier finished with 172 passing yards and a touchdown, and ran for 89 yards on 22 carries. But his two interceptions must’ve felt like daggers as the Wildcats overturned a 14-0 first-quarter deficit with 24-0 run around an hour-long weather delay to start the second quarter as remnants of Hurricane Priscilla rolled through southern Arizona.<\/p>\n
Will Ferrin connected on a 24-yard field goal with 4:08 remaining \u2014 his first make after three consecutive misses for the school’s record-holder for consecutive made tries \u2014 after Kedrick Reescano capped a 24-0 run with a 36-yard rushing score to put the Wildcats up, 24-14 to open the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
Reescano finished with a team-high 90 yards on 13 carries for Arizona (4-1, 2-2 Big 12).<\/p>\n
This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUCSON, Ariz. \u2014 Through five games of his freshman campaign, Bear Bachmeier has been as-advertised for No. 18…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":296665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[419,418,407,171,1318,421,420,425,1317,1315,1316,50,422,423,62,399,314,67,132,68,424,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-296664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-cars","9":"tag-classifieds","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-homes","14":"tag-jobs","15":"tag-local","16":"tag-ncaa","17":"tag-ncaa-football","18":"tag-ncaafootball","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-radio","21":"tag-salt-lake","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-television","24":"tag-traffic","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-utah","29":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115359885836518868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}