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Who is Jake Oldroyd?
Don't fret, BYU fans, most of the players on BYU's football team didn't know who the walk-on freshman from Southlake, Texas, was until late Saturday night, either.
Oldroyd drilled the game-winning 33-yard field goal with four seconds remaining to lift the Cougars to an 18-16 win over Arizona at University of Phoenix Stadium.
On whether he knew:
"It felt great off my foot, and I knew it was good," Oldroyd said.
And to think the fresh-faced teenager, 18, wasn't even on the two-deep chart BYU released Monday. He was a last-minute addition to the traveling squad, he said, because he made the most of his chances in practice during the week.
"I think I got two reps for field goal and team this whole week," he said. "But when I get them, I make them count."
Oldroyd started at Texas power Southlake Carroll — the same school that produced former BYU receiver McKay Jacobson — for two years, then walked on at BYU this summer.
He suffered a torn meniscus and sprained MCL the fourth day of camp, however, and didn't get back until this week
Oldroyd was told that he would kick the next field goal after starting place-kicker Rhett Almond barely made a chip shot in the second quarter and missed a PAT eight minutes later.
"Just under the radar, I guess," he said, noting that he wasn't that nervous when they called his name at the end.
"I just put on a helmet, and it was game time," he said. "I just tried to block everything else out and stayed focused."
Oldroyd said he has kicked in AT&T Stadium several times and the experiences definitely helped him Saturday night. His parents and an aunt and uncle were in attendance in Glendale and he was able to share the moment with them shortly after the final buzzer sounded.
Actually, Oldroyd said that after he made the field goal he thought the game was over, and didn't realize four ticks remained on the clock.
When the Cougars' Matt Hadley returned the kickoff 29 yards to the 31 with 1:20 remaining on the clock, Oldroyd started getting mentally ready.
"That's when I put my head down, got a couple of reps and knew it was my time, and we were going to get a kick. Didn't know where it was going to be, but I knew I was going to put it through," he said.
BYU quarterback Taysom Hill, who directed the game-winning drive, said he wanted to kiss Oldroyd after the clutch kick.
Hill called Jamaal Williams the MVP of the game, though, after the senior rushed 29 times for 162 yards in his first game since Nov. 1, 2014. Williams had several long runs negated by penalties, or he would have easily gone over the 200-yard mark.