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Rivalry game after party: Cougs take to the streets

As soon as the field goal went through the posts, Provo exploded with the sounds of horns and cheering.

It only took five minutes for hundreds of BYU students and community members to gather and celebrate the win over Utah.

BYU fans celebrate in Provo's streets.

On the corner of 500 East and 500 North, more than 150 people lined the intersection, playing Turbulence and cheering every time a car passed by.

BYU fans cheer and wave flags each time cars pass by.

Even though it was 1 a.m., they had no plans to stop.

BYU fans mosh and chant "Utah sucks," referencing BYU's victory over the University of Utah's football team.

“I don’t have church until noon so I can sleep in,” the man with a lightsaber and Mandalorian helmet said.

BYU football team members watch from a bus as fans celebrate the team's victory in the streets.

Another fan says he planned to keep the party going until the players finally bus in from Salt Lake City.

Spoiler alert: they did.

BYU fans chant and cheer in celebration of the BYU football team's win in the rivalry game.

After the last-second one point victory, Jacob Bergson said he took to the streets to unwind.

BYU fans carry large speakers playing music to accompany their chants.

“It took five years off my life,” Bergson said.

And he wasn’t alone. Hundreds of BYU fans crowded in intersections across Provo, like 600 North and 200 East and W. University Parkway and N. University Avenue.

BYU fans cheer surrounding a police car after the BYU vs. University of Utah football game.

Even when the police showed up to clear the BYU fans from where they had pushed onto the road, the crowds didn’t disperse, they just stepped back into the bike lane.

BYU fans brandish a flag from a flagpole and cheer in celebration.

One fan took to the trees, brandishing a BYU flag from a LED flagpole.

BYU fans wave flags in unison near the Indoor Practice Facility on campus.

But between all the cheers and flag waving, BYU fans just couldn’t get over the last game-wining field goal.

A crowd of BYU students and fans surround a police car, chanting and making "Y" signs with their hands.

“We just started counting down: 10 … 9 … 8 …,” a Victoria Place resident said.

BYU fans are already looking forward to the next game, (according to the cheers from the onlookers at 500 East and 500 North), but they took to the streets in the early hours of Nov. 10 to celebrate one thing: “9 and 0!”

BYU students chant in unison, swaying from side to side.