A split second after Ty Pennington fired a pass to Jayson Raines, the Walkup Skydome lights went out .

Raines caught the two-point pass, but the mid-play blackout forced Northern Arizona to re-try the conversion, the referees ruled. Pennington connected with Joey Stout with the lights on to put the Lumberjacks ahead of Idaho 29-26 with less than nine minutes left in regulation.

The unranked Vandals sent the Friday night game to overtime, where they won 35-32 to keep their FCS playoff hopes alive and dim NAU’s.

The Big Sky Conference thriller provided a preview of the craziness that ensued a day later.

Then-No. 19 NAU was one of seven teams ranked in the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 to suffer an upset loss last week. The other six: No. 2 Tarleton State (31-28 to No. 24 Abilene Christian),

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