Omens in college football can be a powerful thing. In a sport that exists on superstition almost as much as tradition, anything out of the ordinary tends to draw a raised eyebrow and a mental note.
Still, it’s hard to mistake what occurred in the middle of the third quarter Saturday night at LaVell Edwards Stadium as anything but ominous for a team that had been living a charmed existence amid a 9–0 record. Cosmo, the No. 7 BYU Cougars’ mascot, was attempting to flip over a speeding golf cart in his latest stunt. His leg clipped the roof and he salvaged a landing to some light, polite applause from the 62,704 in attendance on a cold Provo, Utah, night.
