In a typical year, few of the roughly 63,000 fans who streamed into LaVell Edwards Stadium for the annual homecoming game would even be aware that Saturday was the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
This is no typical year: The star quarterback for BYU, Jake Retzlaff, is Jewish. And he has led the team to an undefeated start, confounding prognosticators.
ESPN and CBS have both turned up on campus to profile Retzlaff, while Fox Sports dispatched a team of 140 to broadcast its game-day studio show from Provo.
A win against the University of Arizona Wildcats would not only make the Cougars bowl-eligible but also keep their chances at a Big 12 championship alive.
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