SALT LAKE CITY — Six weeks of making the extraordinary seem easy had brought Caleb Williams to this climactic crescendo, with a sea of black roaring from enemy stands and any high hopes for USC’s season hanging impossibly in the balance.
All night — and all season, really — he had successfully side-stepped danger at every turn, powering USC to a spotless, 6-0 start through a sequence of stunning escapes and dazzling downfield passes you would need to see to believe. In the process, he had done everything possible to help USC escape.
But never had he quite been cornered like this, with less than a minute remaining, the entire field in front of him and USC trailing by one point, the first deficit this season it wouldn’t escape, as Utah pulled off a stunner 43-42.
