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PROVO — Do you remember that time when you, a frog-faced, short, fair-complexioned, homely reject asked out the homecoming queen and she said, "Yes, I thought you'd never ask"?
Then you played in a charity golf tournament with your buddies, trailing your scramble by a single stroke on the final hole, and you pulled out your 7-iron on a 164-yard-bunker-laden-postage-stamp green and smoothed it for a hole-in-one victory?
Then you bought a single ticket to the PowerBall and sat back, fully confident that you had chosen the winning numbers?
That sounds ridiculous, right?
It might be, but that is precisely the situation BYU finds itself as it stares at Week 3 of the college football season.
Spurned by the bigger princess conferences for being too ugly, BYU opened the season with an all-time storybook finish with the "Miracle at Memorial," snapping Nebraska's 29-game season-opener winning streak with a 33-28 victory.
Then, trailing Boise State by 10 with just one quarter to play, BYU comes back to victory by scoring 14 points in 15 seconds on a second "Hail Tanner" toss and a Kai Nacua pick-six.
Now, BYU — ranked 19th and two spots ahead of Pac-12 member Utah — is traveling to 10th ranked UCLA at the historic Rose Bowl, looking to continue the most spectacular start to a football season in BYU history.
Does BYU think it can continue this run of unprecedented luck?
Of course it does.
This team has taken two certain losses and thrown them into a blender and pulverized them into wins.
Why would BYU think that the 10th ranked UCLA Bruins, a perennial college football powerhouse, could stop its juggernaut play?
With that all too lengthy introduction, outside of the BYU football program, Alex Kirry and I are the luckiest men in Utah. At the perfect time, we're taking our annual General RV road trip to Pasadena, California, to see if those PowerBall numbers stay true.
This is the fourth year of the roadie. Year one took us to Notre Dame, where BYU would lose to the Irish — the eventual runners-up to the national championship. In year two, we traveled to Camp Randall Stadium in Wisconsin to watch the Badgers give the Cougars the Brat-n-Cheese treatment, and serve them up a 27-17 loss. Year three, we witnessed Taysom's leap of faith in a 41-7 win over Texas.
Can BYU continue its fairy tale season or will the bad guys finally knock off those white helmets?
I'm not sure, but we can't imagine not being there to find out.
