The Big 12 title race continues to run through Salt Lake City and Morgan Scalley's Utah Utes as the push toward the College Football Playoff intensifies.
The third-ranked Utes improved to 9-0 on Saturday for the first time in nearly two decades — and it came against their in-state rival, No. 8 BYU.
The Utes' 28-20 win in the Holy War — which started with an odd 10 a.m. local kickoff — set off an immediate field storm from fans inside Rice–Eccles Stadium when the clock hit triple zero. Importantly, they did not wait for the Cougars to get off the field.
THEY ARE STORMING THE FIELD IN SALT LAKE CITY 🔥
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) November 7, 2026
The Utes win the Holy War and are 9-0 for the first time since 2008 😳 pic.twitter.com/AICTPcVGu9
Deal with us now
Devon Dampier did it all for Utah on Saturday, both in the air and on the ground. He completed 14 of 26 passes for 177 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 87 yards and two touchdowns on a game-high 20 carries. He also protected the football, unlike his counterpart Bear Bachmeier, as the BYU quarterback threw four interceptions.
"It's a win. It's special because our guys are living the culture," Scalley told ESPN's Taylor McGregor after the game while Utah fans were chanting his name. "... The season's not over. This was a big win, but not the big win. We gotta keep it going."
It's the second time this season that BYU has been field stormed on this season, with the other coming in an upset loss in Orlando against UCF in October. But since the Utes violated the conference's field-storming policy, Utah will likely have to pay a fine for the field storming.
Here's what to know:
Will Utah be fined for field storming after BYU win?
The Big 12 takes a case-by-case basis when determining whether to fine its institutions, though it looks like Utah could very well be fined for Saturday's field storming.
The standard fine for a Big 12 member school whose fans storm the field after a game is $50,000, but the league office will review footage of the incident to see whether the visiting team and the game officials have a safe path off the field. It’s different from the SEC, which has a strict fine system in place for field-storming incidents.
The Big 12 has declined to penalize schools in the past for fans rushing the field, as recently as a few weeks after BYU beat Notre Dame and then a week after that, when Central Florida fans rushed the field after the Knights defeated the Cougars. In 2025, it didn’t penalize Colorado after its fans ran onto the field after a home win against what was then a nationally ranked Iowa State team. The conference determined that the Buffs “executed field storming management procedures" and rescinded the fine.
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