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#25 Utah vs. Cal Poly 9-6-25 · Utah Football Gameday Archive

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Speaker 1: New Golf's good afternoon and welcome for the first time
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in twenty twenty five to Rice ecl Stadium on an
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overcast and cloudy Saturday afternoon here at Salt Lake City.
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It's Utah and cal Poly for the first time ever,
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meeting up on the grid iron. I'm Bill Riley, good
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to be with you today, joined by my broadcast partner
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Scott Mitchell upstairs, and our third member of our broadcast
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team downstairs, that's Stevenson Sylvester. A week ago in Pasadena,
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Utah open the season and about as good a way
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as you can do it. They dominated on both sides
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of the ball. They were clean, they didn't commit turnovers,
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and they put forty three up on the UCLA Bruins.
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Today it's not quite the same opponent, although they are
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from the state of California. But Scott, what do they
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have to get done today for you to see progress
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for this Utah football time.
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Speaker 2: I think it's a huge challenge. I mean, everyone says,
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you know, you make the biggest improvement from game one
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to game two, and game one was almost perfection, So
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I don't know how you build on perfection. But it's
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a great opportunity here for this Utah team to actually
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get some reps with some younger players, some inexperienced players
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to create depth that will help you later on the year.
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And part of that is hopefully being able to rest
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some of your guys in the second half. So we'll
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see how that goes. But the biggest thing for Utah
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is you got to come out and treat this opponent
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as if you're playing Ohio State and they're the number
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one ranked team in the country. You've got to respect
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the process of being prepared and ready to play weekend
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and week out. That's what's really going to help you
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down the road. You can't overlook an opponent.
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Speaker 1: Eff Not a lot of people saw the broadcast a
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week ago or heard it, maybe more hurt it than
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saw it because it was late in many parts of
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the country.
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Speaker 3: Those that saw it, though, were impressed.
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Speaker 1: Utah jumped into the top twenty five this week with
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a dominating effort over UCLA. They'll try to build on
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that today in the afternoon with more eyeballs on them
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today and do it against the Cal Poly team that
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won last week against a lesser opponent in San Diego,
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a one double a opponent themselves from Southern California's let's
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go down to a third member of our broadcast team.
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That's Stevenson Sylvestrira slides out in it Today's Survival on
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the sideline right now before kickoffside.
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Speaker 4: Man, this is awesome. Is a great first game for
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the you. It's a little rainy, a little drop, but I'm.
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Speaker 2: In that routy north.
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Speaker 4: End zone and I tell you, I haven't seen these
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fans so excited in a long time. But I was
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in the locker room before the game and the reverber
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rating statement from coach Riddingham was focus and intensity right,
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focus on the tax to hand and the technique and
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then intensity.
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Speaker 5: You bring it every single possession.
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Speaker 4: So expect Utah to jump on him early here in
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this football game.
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Speaker 1: So I thank you that sideline update brought to you
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Speaker 3: We hear you.
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Speaker 1: Utah in the all red look today, red helmet, red jersey,
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red pants, cal Poly in the all white look today
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with a little navy trim, white helmet, white jersey, white
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pants with davy trim post Way. Lopez has it teed
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up at his own thirty five yard line. Smith Snowton
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back deep to receive the kick for the University of Utah.
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He stands on the goal line. It's great to have
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you with us here today. It's actually Rayshawn Glover who
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stands at the goal line, not Smith Stowton today for
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the University of Utah. Lover handled putt returns last week.
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He'll do some kick returns here today. Low Pez has
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it teed up. We're glad to be with you to
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kick things off here on the home opener. Is the
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wind whips out of the south and a little rain
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in the area.
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Speaker 3: Right now, we've.
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Speaker 1: Got Utah football ready to go. However, the football not
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quite ready to go. It comes off to tea. Somebody's
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gonna have to come in and hold it for Roseway. Lopez.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you got to figure out is it gonna
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be the guy on the right side of the left
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side based off your kickers. There's something that isn't more
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anti claimactic to the start of a football game.
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Speaker 3: It's the ball falling off the tee.
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Speaker 2: So you hate to see that. And I don't think
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this weather is gonna be a big time factor in
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this game. You know, it might be for a minute
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here or there. I don't see it as a long
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term problem.
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Speaker 1: Now, a little bit of rain coming through the valley
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right now, probably cooling some folks off.
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Speaker 3: It was a little humid.
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Speaker 1: He'll stay humid, but that rain will cool it off
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and make it feel nice downstairs. Ninetieth straight sellout today
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A later arriving crowd here at Rice Scle Stadium. So
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good to be with you here on a Saturday afternoon
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in early September. It's Utah and cal Poly for the
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first time all time, squaring off here at Rice ecl Stadium.
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Lopez has somebody holding the tee and the ball and
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he'll put his right foot into a ticket end over
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end and this will be a touchback out of the
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back of the end zone. It goes and Devin damp
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Pierre the Utes will begin first and ten at their
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own twenty five yard line. In a week ago at
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the Rose Bull Scott, Devin Dampier, the Utah offense did
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anything and everything they wanted, didn't they?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they did. And you talk about this confidence that
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Devin has, and no wonder he has confidence because he's
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so elusive. He was the least sack quarterback in the
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in college football a year ago and he just kept
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right with it last week. I mean they they couldn't
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find him, couldn't catch him, and he was electric.
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Speaker 1: Bunch settled the right hand side of the formation, smith
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Snowden in the backfield with Devin damp Pier Now. He
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motions out on first down and ten and motions back in,
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takes the hand off stoone across to thirty and rolls
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down to about the thirty one yard line for a
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game of six yards on first down. Tackle on the
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play by the boundary safety Mason Rivera.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you get smithsnown in the game and it's
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clear that he's going to touch the ball, and they
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found a nice play to get that sweep and just
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a great blocking there get six yards.
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Speaker 1: Two tight ends on the right, two receivers on the
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left hand side. Hunter Andrews goes in motion, Dann Pire's
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gonna throw over the middle.
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Speaker 3: He's hit as he throws, that goes incomplete.
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Speaker 1: Troy bean Will linebacker had a little pressure on the
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play that time, and Devin took a little time getting
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that out and nearly got sacked.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was a problem last week. He had
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Lander Barton White open. He should have just thrown it.
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It was a quick throw and he just held on.
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He just didn't have that confidence throwing the ball.
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Speaker 1: Utah was fourteen of seventeen on third downs. A week ago,
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they faced a third down in four Right here, Dan
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Pierre looking over the middle Cot. That's Hunter Andrews, the
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afore mentioned Hunter Andrews have beyond the thirty five to
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the thirty seven. That'll be a first down. Yeah, it's
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good to see Hunter in there. He's been in there
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pretty much from the start of the game.
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Speaker 2: He's the guy that they said, hey, he can run,
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he can play, Let's find a spot for him.
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Speaker 1: Utah going with tempo. Now, three receivers, a back at
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a tight end, Hunter Andrews in the backfield. This time
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they throw the flankers screen to the outside. Cot there
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moving up field smith Snowden and he's out to about
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the thirty nine yard line for a gain of three
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yards on first down.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. It's really interesting. You got Lander Barton who's been
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in there, you got Hunter Andrews, and you've got smith
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Snowden and so they faked it. These are like situational
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guys that are starting and playing big roles.
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Speaker 1: Mikey to Motto had the tackle for cal Pauly. Snowden
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comes in motion again, takes it on that left side,
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dancing his way forward beyond the forty six out to
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about the forty eights. That's gonna be a gain of
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about nine yards and another first down to Motto with
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a tackle again for cal Pauly. This offensive series being
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Speaker 3: Now Utah will sup.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and clearly it's like, Okay, we're gonna get him
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in the game. We're gonna let him touch the ball.
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They found all these kind of fun ways to get
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the ball to Smith Snowden, and he's been effective so far.
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Speaker 1: Lay Shawn Parker the ball game for the first time.
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Three receivers flex to the right, one to the left
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hand side. Damp Pier's gonna pass in the flat. He's
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got Parker a lot of.
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Speaker 5: Room to run forty thirty twenty. They're not gonna get
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him into the end zone. He goes poor a touchdown.
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Speaker 2: See that's just a beautiful read there by Devin Dampier.
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And that's that thing about getting the ball out on timing.
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Wishaun went out in motion and they just didn't go
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with him and he's probably his fifth Reid on the throw,
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but he got to him early, felt it and then
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he just walks in the end zone. And that's that
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chunk play that I think this offense is looking for.
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Speaker 1: Fifty two yards on the screen pass and the flat
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to way Sean Parker nobody touched him up the far
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sideline and into the end zone for a PEPSI touchdown.
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Dylan Curtis on to attempt the pat for Utah. Kick
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is up I and the kick is good, a little
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better than last week for Dylan seven up at Utah
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with thirteen oh eight to play here the first quarter.
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That was an efficient drive six plays, seventy five yards
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and a minute fifty two off the play clock for
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Devin damp Here in the offense, Utah strikes first.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, beautiful play there, and you know again he just
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goes in motion. No one, no one sees it. Well.
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The thing I like about this drive is Utah is
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like they're they're not just three yards in a cloud
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of dust, and they're working on that passing game and
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getting Devin comfortable seeing those reads and getting rid of
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the ball quickly. And he sought brilliantly right there. And
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hit the guy who's beautiful play.
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Speaker 1: Two of three fifty seven yards and a touchdown on
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the drive for Devin dan Peer had two touchdown passes
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a week ago. He's got one here today. Kyle Winningham
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said he wanted to get some chunk play. Scott, Well,
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there's chunk play for you right there. Fifty two yards
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of work. That's got to be a great feeling.
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Speaker 2: He was shamp Barker. He catch the ball and you're
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just looking downfield. It's like, hey, there's no but it's like,
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did they have ten guys on the field? What's going
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on here? Like, you don't get plays like that often.
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So take you relish him when you get him, because
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that's a that's a fun feeling to have.
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Speaker 1: Curtis will kick it off here for Utah. Trey Wilson
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back deep to receive for cal Poling. Well, the Big
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In fifty two seconds into this one, Dylan kicks kind
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of a squibber kick that skips and bounds, is taking
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it about the six yard line, Wilson to the twenty.
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Wilson belted at about the twenty three yard line and he
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goes down right there. Excellent special teams played by a
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Luca Calderella wide receiver and gunner on the kickoffs makes
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the tackle, and we'll see the way the cal Poly
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offense for the first time here tonight, led by pitt
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transfer Tied Daifenbach.
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Speaker 3: We'll see what he's got's.
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Speaker 2: Got, Yeah, and you know, the quarterback can be a
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difference maker, doesn't matter what level you're at, and he
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certainly has a lot of skill. Utah did a tremendous
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job of keeping a very talented guy in Ikoeomaliava last
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week under check. You gotta do the same thing today.
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Speaker 1: Carson Cool the tailback Diifenbach goes six foot six and
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two hundred twenty pounds transfer from Pittsburgh, accounted for over
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three hundred yards of total offense, and they're win against
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San Diego a week ago, empty backfield, snap his back,
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he will throw wide open at to thirty and down
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to the thirty four yard line. Goes Jordan Garrison, redshirt
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sophomore wide receiver head ninety yards a week ago, picks
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up nine right there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is what you got to eliminate. Make
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him make hard throws, you know, that was way too easy.
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Tighten up on these wide receivers in the secondary.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna throw it. They go five wide again in
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an empty backfield. Dip In Bock backs up into the
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shotgun Utah showing pressure at the line of scrimmage. Six
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guys at the line right now for Utah. Second down
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in one, dipinback throws the flanker screen to the flat.
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He stacked up and take him down. Salahi, he picked
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up the yard he needed. Oh, actually no, they gave
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him the first down of the last one. So that's
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a one yard game there. Second down to nine coming up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, really good play with Jackson Benny there. You know,
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he sets that edge and he holds his position very nicely,
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and wide receiver's supposed to turn to the inside, he doesn't,
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and Jackson makes the play.
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Speaker 1: Temple transferred Tyree Washington in the backfield. Now on second
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down and nine, three receivers that are tied end to
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the right slot. Dipinback brings a man in motion. He'll
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hand the Washington try on the right side. Washington stacked up,
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take him down pretty quickly on the play. Lander Barton
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in there on the tackle for Utah and third down,
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a long coming up here for the Mustangs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the one thing I really do like about
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this Utah defense is that is the way they played
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downhill and they just did a nice job there. You know,
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they had one mistackle, but guys really flowing to the
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ball confidently. They're reading their keys and just getting to
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the ball.
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Speaker 1: Curd Utah was excellent on third down a week ago
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against UCLA. It's third down and seven here for the Mustang.
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Stipeen backing the shotgun. Four receivers in the pattern, four
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man rush for Utah's he backpedal surveys, he's chased outside
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the pocket to the right hand side. Cash Dylan wraps
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him up and takes him down back in the thirty
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four yard line.
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Speaker 3: That'll be a sack for Dylan and a big defensive
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stop for Utah.
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Speaker 2: Well, they sure like this defensive line. Mean, you just
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go through four or five guys and they like him.
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But Cash is actually double teamed and he redirects very nicely.
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And it's good to see that there's that speed to
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track down a quarterback on the edge.
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Speaker 1: Defensive series brought to you by Doe Terra. That'll bring
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from Australia, played a little Aussie rules football before coming state.
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Sign had a sixty five yard pud a week ago
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and then went over USD. Glover stands in his own
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twenty six yard line, left footed punt high and end
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over and pretty well hit.
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Speaker 3: Glover back pedals.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna let it hit and check up and build
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down at about the Utah fifteen yard line. I'm not
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quite sure why Glover didn't at least come up and
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fear catch that ball, but he didn't fifty one yard
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punt at a time out on the field.
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Speaker 3: Ten twenty to play.
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Speaker 1: We'll see Devin Dampier in the Utah offense for a
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second time today.
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Speaker 3: When we get back.
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Speaker 1: It's Utah seven and cal Pauly nothing from Rice ecl
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Speaker 3: Fresh Forever went down to the sideline for a kangar
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sideline up. Davis, so I go ahead?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: The last offensive series is absolutely awesome. Scott hit it
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on the head of getting to his reads early. That
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was all a pre snap reed right there. Then one
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two with the slant swing combo. You're reading what the
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corner and linebacker do right there. He saw them both
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take the slant, you throw it to the swing touchdown defensively,
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absolutely awesome, Scott said it. Cash Dylan was double team
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spin move right out of there.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely athletic move.
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Speaker 4: Coach Bittaef said that Cash Delan is going to be
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a star in this Etah football program.
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We hear you first intent Utah from their own sixteen
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about an eighty four yard field way. Shawn Parker back
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in the ball game, rested after his fifty two yard
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gallop into the end zone for a touchdown. Tobias Merriweather
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Ryan Davis lined up on the right hand side for Utah.
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Utah defense had four sacks a week ago. They get
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a sack on the opening drive as well. That's five
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and two weeks and again they're doing it with just
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about a four man rush bunch set of tight ends
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on the left side of the formation. Parker of the
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shotgun with Devin Day. Now they bring a tight end
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across the formation, first down movements, and what do we have.
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Speaker 3: I think this one's gonna go against Utah.
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Speaker 1: Maybe on the right side, maybe Spencer final will see.
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Speaker 6: Fall start offense number seventy three, five yard penalty first out.
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Speaker 2: See, those are the things you don't want to see
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with the team that's trying to, you know, stay focused
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and you want to, you want to really, you know,
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start the game right. And it just seemed like they're
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just a little bit out of sync there.
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Speaker 1: Toda togy I whistled for it first and ten becomes
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first in fifteen dam Pierre hands to Parker. He's stacked up.
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That's gonna be a loss of almost two yards. Back
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to the night, Victory Johnson shot in from his defensive
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end spot to wrap him up and take him down.
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Now we've got about second and seventeen coming here for
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Utah behind the sticks right now, Scott.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, first play they should have ran it. It looked
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like Dan Pear should have kept that last one right there.
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Speaker 1: Devin and the gun. Parker stays at the ball game.
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Here on second down at seventeen, motion to wide receiver
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Devon's gonna pass lots of time, good pocket, clean pocket,
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serving the field, scrambling to his left, looking.
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Speaker 3: Down the field.
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Speaker 1: Now he's gonna run lot of room fifteen twenty twenty five,
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twenty seven at out of bounds, but a flag dropped
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in the backfield, Mikey Tomato four steam out of bounds.
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But this is gonna be a hold, I think against Utah,
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and it's gonna come back.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And those are those are tough on those linemen
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because he's in the pocket and he's sitting there a
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long time with a great pass protection. You think you're
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doing a great job. And then and then when Devin
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comes out of the pocket, the guy tries to chase
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and just instinctively you grab it and it's on that edge.
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Speaker 7: Office number seventy one TH's.
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Speaker 2: Hands until the goal second out, And it's one of
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those things, you know, where where those offensive linemens just
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instinctively grab and they're really just doing a good job.
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Speaker 1: So back them up now to the five yard line
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and it's second down in twenty one. Togy on one play,
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Lobu on the other. Damp Pierre stands on his goal line,
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back pedals to pass pressure coming fires down the field, caught,
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that's Merriweather beyond the twenty go, almost the twenty two
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yard line. He'll give him seventeen on that play. Third
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down and four coming up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Utah is not being conservatives great anticipation. He throws
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it into the hole. He had two or three guys
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that were actually open there. But he does a nice
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job on time. Hits that seam route and that's a
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hard throw to throw accurately, that kind of skinny post,
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and he hits it just perfectly right there.
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Speaker 1: Third third down, at about four yards to go, rain
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falling here, Rice ecles Utah one for one on third
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down the Carrie Rodgers at the ball game here. On
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third down, Utah with a big, tight set, two receivers
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split wide to the left hand side. Play clock ticking
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down now on Devon he'll take the snap, drop back
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to pass, looking to survey, firing behind this man. Oh,
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and then a late hit on the wide receiver in
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about the thirty five yard line. Try to get that
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to Merriweather it was behind him incomplete. That'll bring up
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fourth downs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unfortunate because he was open and he just
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doesn't see this is this again? This is just kind
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of part of part of Devon's game. That's one that
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he's not, I want to say, one hundred percent comfortable.
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And I'm glad to see Utah's you know, taking shots here.
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I mean it's third and you know, short, and they
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were they were gonna throw the football, and I like
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that they're doing that because they need to get comfortable
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throwing this football.
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Speaker 1: Phillip's on the punt for Utah, cool back to receive it.
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Ryan gets his kick away. It's kind of a wobbler.
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It's gonna be fair caught at the thirty one yard line.
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Speaker 3: Good punt that time, and.
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Speaker 1: The rain continues to fall harder forty seven yards and
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no return. We've got a time out on the field.
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Speaker 3: A sub above.
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Speaker 1: Seventh of the Utah second offensive series for cal Poly,
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tied deep in by the quarterback.
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Speaker 3: You they have two backs to the backfield with it.
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Speaker 1: Operating out of the shotgun, Washington and Holy Field of
18:21
the backs and a little movement on the left side
18:22
of that offensive line for cal Poly.
18:26
Speaker 2: And little is the operative word. I didn't see anyone offense.
18:29
Speaker 7: Number five five yard field.
18:31
Speaker 1: League wide receiver flinched a little bit. Yeah, go back
18:36
them up five yards. It was short and Garrison who
18:38
had to catch on the opening drive. Second down, making
18:41
first down of fifteen back at the.
18:44
Speaker 3: Twenty six yard line.
18:46
Speaker 1: Deepen Brock brings Garrison in motion, hands to the tailback Washington.
18:50
He tries to plow forward. He's going to be thrown backward.
18:53
They grabbed him and threw him backwards. Looked like it
18:57
was Johanna Laea. It was Cash Dillon was there as well.
19:00
Second down coming up at about twelve. Yeah, this is
19:03
kal Pauly. Offensive line is pretty stout. That make it
19:05
some big boys in there getting a pretty good push
19:08
right there. But great, great gap integrity by the Utah defense.
19:12
Speaker 3: Washington stays of the ball game.
19:14
Speaker 1: Deefen Box splits three receivers wide to the right hand side.
19:17
Second down to twelve was the rain falls four man
19:20
down front for Utah. Now an empty backfield deep and
19:22
Bock to pass pressure in his face, scrambles to his left,
19:25
looking down the field, throwing down the field.
19:27
Speaker 3: Flag's gonna fly.
19:28
Speaker 1: Yes, I gotta get a hold and that hole is
19:31
gonna go on Lander Barton. I think it's lander bart
19:34
Let's double check that it is. Nope, Nate Richie. And
19:38
we've got one in the backfield as well. So multiple
19:40
flags on the play. We'll see you who they're on.
19:44
You might have one will definitely be on Nate Richie
19:46
for holding up on the wide receiver. We'll see what
19:48
the second flag is in the backfield.
19:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it might be holding offensively Kuldoff set there.
19:52
Nate was in position. I don't know why he felt
19:54
like he had to do what he did. I mean,
19:56
he was right with the receiver and grabbed him at
19:58
the last minute. When you get a guy doing that,
20:02
sometimes you get you can get in those bad habits
20:05
in practice where you you just can't help yourself grabbing
20:08
a guy and sometimes it kind of carries over in
20:10
the game. I'm not saying that's what he does, but
20:12
it does happen.
20:13
Speaker 3: Glynden Nixon, our referee, huddled up with his fellow Zebras,
20:17
said about the twenty four yard line.
20:20
Speaker 1: I don't want to jinxuit. We didn't have a review
20:21
all last week against UCLA. We haven't had one yet.
20:24
But this is a rather lengthy discussion amongst the referees
20:27
here on what these flags are about.
20:30
Speaker 3: Here's our ree both the defense oops.
20:33
Speaker 8: Person and file defense number seven that penalan has decline
20:37
person the file rough in the passer defense number seven
20:42
fifty yard penalty automatic first down.
20:45
Speaker 1: I think you got that wrong. They weren't both on
20:47
John and Hall. The one down field was on Nate Ritchie.
20:50
John o'haldough rough the passer ye.
20:54
Speaker 2: Number six. Hey, I thought he said roughing the t
20:58
I said two personal founds, but well.
21:00
Speaker 3: He messed it up.
21:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one's on John Tou Hall and that's the
21:04
one they'll get to take it's fifteen yards out to
21:06
the forty four yard line and first intent, Tyree Washington
21:11
stays in the ball game. Rain continues to fall, though
21:13
we can see lighter skies a bit to the west
21:15
and the south offset pistol formation. Now they bring a
21:20
man across the formation. They handed again to Washington, who
21:22
bounces and moves and wiggles and gets about a yard
21:25
to the forty five yard.
21:26
Speaker 3: Line, and that was it.
21:27
Speaker 1: Lance Hold's claw defensive end transferred from Washington. You know
21:30
the tackle second down to nine coming up.
21:33
Speaker 2: You know that backside cutoff was a problem for Utah
21:36
in the run game a year ago. You remember Cam
21:39
Skataboo and a running back for Arizona hit that big
21:41
backside which is that play right there in Utah did
21:45
a nice job of stopping that backside cut back on
21:48
the run.
21:48
Speaker 3: Three receivers wide to the right hand.
21:50
Speaker 1: Side, one to the left hand side on second down,
21:52
and nine from the cal Poly forty five deef in
21:56
box fires wide to the outside.
21:57
Speaker 5: It's picked. It's gonna go to.
21:59
Speaker 7: The half.
22:01
Speaker 2: Jackson Benny, the streak is alive twenty two straight years.
22:08
Speaker 5: With a pick six for Utah. Benny with a house.
22:11
Speaker 2: Doll and Benny was just getting started to Benny. He's
22:16
explosive and he's one of those guys that just makes
22:18
plays and you know, you read it perfectly. I'm glad
22:21
we got this streak out of the way early this
22:22
year so we don't have to worry about it. But
22:24
it's an incredible, an incredible record that Utah has here.
22:28
Oh man, I was gonna bring this up in the
22:30
pre I seriously was I just I felt like there
22:32
was going to be a pick six today. I know
22:34
that sounds bad right now, but good job for Jackson Benny.
22:37
Speaker 3: Forty six yards. He read it perfectly.
22:39
Speaker 2: He was alone in the flat, picked it out of
22:41
midair and ran up the far.
22:43
Speaker 3: Sideline for a touchdown.
22:46
Speaker 1: Utah has the longest streak in college football twenty two
22:50
consecutive years with a pick six, and they leaded fourteen
22:53
nothing time out on the field here at Rice Ecle Stadium,
22:57
Utah fourteen cal Pauly nothing, fifteen to.
23:00
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Speaker 1: Pick Sticks by Jackson Benny happened right in front of
23:21
our guys, Sly Sly, would.
23:23
Speaker 2: You see red?
23:25
Speaker 4: I saw a great read by Jackson Benny. It was
23:27
absolutely He really didn't have to do much. So the
23:30
quarterback threw it right to him. But Scott said it
23:31
on the first series when they completed that first pass,
23:34
that was too easy.
23:35
Speaker 5: You gotta make it work for it.
23:36
Speaker 4: Honestly, the quarterback seems like he's predetermining where he wants
23:41
to go. He's not really looking because Jackson Benny didn't
23:43
even move.
23:44
Speaker 2: It was a cover three.
23:45
Speaker 4: Jackson Billy had the flat route. He was sitting right there.
23:48
Speaker 2: Easy touch.
23:49
Speaker 4: As you know, Jackson Benny's fast, easy touchdown for him.
23:52
Speaker 3: So I thinks that sideline update brought to you by
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Ken Garth.
23:54
Speaker 2: We hear you.
23:57
Speaker 1: Just about midway through the first quarter fourteen nothing you
24:01
an offensive touchdown by way Sean Parker of fifty two
24:04
yards and a defensive touchdown by Jackson Benny of forty six.
24:07
Here's Dylan Curtis's kick. That one's a lot better all
24:09
the way out of the back of the end zone
24:11
into the Ken Garth South red zone end zone and
24:15
defend Bock and cal Poly will come out started first,
24:19
intend at their own twenty five yard.
24:20
Speaker 2: Now you have to wonder about Jackson Benny if not
24:22
playing a lot of offense and catching passes as a receiver,
24:26
I wonder how much that actually helps you on defense
24:28
because so many times guys will getting a little surprised
24:31
by a pass like that and they'll drop it. You know,
24:32
you see so many guys. But he didn't. That's the
24:35
best part about that plays. He didn't drop a shut
24:38
pick six.
24:39
Speaker 1: Person Intend for cal Poly trailing here fourteen to enough.
24:42
They get a rainy rice e cold stadium. We're hoping
24:44
that rain will stop here pretty shortly. Holy Field the
24:46
back of the backfield right now with deepen Bock five
24:49
of the line for Utah free receivers rights play action
24:53
passed up. They hand it off and holy Field picks
24:56
his way forward. You might even say he fights his
24:58
way forward for about two and a half yards.
25:00
Speaker 3: Cash Dylan made the tackle.
25:02
Speaker 2: See y'all make fun of me for my dad jokes.
25:04
And that was a dad joke, right.
25:06
Speaker 3: It was a good that was a sports joke.
25:08
Speaker 2: It was a good joke because that was a sports line.
25:10
I'm impressed. I was. I was. He's in midfield mid
25:14
season forms the sports joke, and I am a dad.
25:18
So it came from a dad pistol formation. Second down
25:20
and seven play action roll to the right, looking back
25:22
to the left.
25:23
Speaker 1: Has a man wide open down the field, caught forty
25:25
five forty thirty five and out of bounds at the
25:28
Utah twenty eight yard line. Sole he kean so Lay
25:33
made the catch and he was all by himself up
25:35
the near sideline for a first down of forty three yards.
25:38
Speaker 2: See that's called an oh shoot screen where everyone the
25:42
quarterback rolls out, everyone comes to the right, and then
25:44
they leave a guy out the backside and he's wide open.
25:48
Speaker 1: Four man down front, first intent for the Utah thirty
25:51
yard line. After that junk play, now deefen bible check
25:54
with the sidelines, got a backup quarterback signaling in plays
25:58
from about the thirty eight yard line, and now whistle
26:00
blows and what do we have.
26:03
Speaker 3: And time out come out on the field. Think they're
26:08
getting the shame gang acclimated on that far sideline. Maybe
26:13
one of these days we're going to get that digital
26:15
technology that they use in the NFL.
26:21
Speaker 2: Well, it exists, and you know, you'd love to see
26:23
it because you really wonder sometimes how these officials determined
26:27
if it's a first down or not.
26:29
Speaker 1: That was the longest play of the air according to
26:30
Dave Spatafor at Utah has given up Dave Spatafor, who
26:34
was in rare mid season form last week in Los Angeles.
26:38
Speaker 2: We're looking for.
26:38
Speaker 1: Good back to back efforts today by Dave, He's dialed
26:41
in on the right hand side.
26:42
Speaker 3: We're dialed in here. First down in ten for the
26:44
Utah thirty yard line, holy field, the back of the
26:50
backfield deep and box backs up.
26:53
Speaker 1: Utah is showing a little pressure up front. Now they'll
26:56
rush four into the flat. Caught nicely done inside the
26:59
twenty and out of about the eighteen for Jordan Garrison.
27:02
Second big catch today for him, and that's going to
27:05
go for about twelve yards and they're now.
27:07
Speaker 2: In the red zone.
27:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, Isaiah Davis had a little bit of soft coverage
27:10
on that play.
27:11
Speaker 2: You know, you know where cal Poly's had Success's throwing
27:15
the football and that was just too easy right there.
27:17
And that's just something Utah is just they got to
27:18
tighten up again in that secondary.
27:21
Speaker 3: Pistol formation again.
27:22
Speaker 1: Just inside the Utah twenty yard live wide receiver Wheatley
27:26
comes in motion. They throw a ball, throw the hands
27:29
of the tight end incomplete, try to squeeze that into
27:32
Marshall goes in complete. There was pressure of the base
27:35
that time of the quarterback. How to bring up second
27:37
down in ten?
27:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what you gotta do, is you just you
27:42
gotta put that pressure. John Henry Daily was so good
27:44
there quarterback. Of course he's going to his off throw,
27:47
which is hard, but great pressure there, right John.
27:50
Speaker 1: Henry Holyfield stays of the ball game. Second down in
27:54
ten from the Utah eighteen for deep in backing. The
27:57
bus stangs high forty seven to play here the first
27:59
quarter fourteen up Utah deefen back to pass pressure in
28:05
his face, dumpsit out and caught inside the fifteen and
28:08
down to about the eleven yard line. Jordan Garrison won
28:11
the jump ball that time. Scooby Davis had the coverage
28:15
again but couldn't come down with it.
28:17
Speaker 2: That's a weird throw. It's kind of a it's almost
28:19
like Scooby slipped or something there because it's it's just
28:22
it's kind of high and he just got lost out
28:24
in space there. Just didn't get a good feel for
28:27
where the wide receiver was.
28:28
Speaker 1: Third down and a yard and a half here for
28:30
cal Poly er for one on third down. Tonight's two
28:34
backs in the backfield this time Deef and back can
28:39
run too. He ran for almost sixty yards.
28:42
Speaker 2: A week ago.
28:44
Speaker 1: And now a time out taken by cal Poly. They
28:47
want to discuss this.
28:48
Speaker 8: Time out, Kyle Poly thirty seconds.
28:52
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The rain has stopped the sun trying to come out
29:07
here at Rice Ecle Stadium. And you told a fourteen
29:11
to nothing lead right now over cal Poly, But the
29:14
Mustang's threatening. This has been a nice drive. That chunk
29:16
play of forty three yards really helped them out.
29:18
Speaker 2: As a big time play. And you know, you get
29:20
guys kind of staring in the backfield and not reading
29:22
their keys and they got lost on that play. And
29:27
the quarterbacks done a nice job of picking those soft
29:30
spots in the defense, not holding onto the football and
29:32
getting rid of it quite quickly. It's third and short here.
29:35
You know they're gonna pour down. Yeah, they're gonna go
29:38
for it if they don't get.
29:39
Speaker 1: It by play sixty five yards of minute thirty seven
29:41
so far, two backs in the backfield. They motioned, Holy
29:45
field out, Heathen Box is gonna keep it himself, trying
29:47
to get to the outside. He won't get there. John
29:50
Henry Daly was there, so was Trey Reynolds. And I
29:54
gotta drop him for about a two yard loss, maybe
29:56
a one yard loss. They'll say he got to the
29:57
eleven and fourth down coming up.
30:00
Speaker 3: The kick team will come out now for cal Poly.
30:02
Speaker 1: Excellent read as I said, he can run, but Utah
30:06
was ready for it.
30:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're talking about a defense that has at
30:09
leads speed there. It's gonna be hard to get out
30:11
on that edge. You know. I'm not sure it's the
30:13
greatest call there by cal Poly, but excellent, excellent open
30:16
field tackling on that play.
30:23
Speaker 3: Field goal attempt for just inside the left hash.
30:26
Speaker 1: We'll call it thirty yards right at the twenty yard line.
30:28
The kick is up and the kick is good. Cerna
30:34
knocked it through. They used to place kickers, Noah, Cerna
30:37
got that one, and the Mustangs are on the board
30:40
for twenty one to play. Here the first quarter now
30:42
fourteen to three, Utah in front.
30:45
Speaker 2: See that drive there, Bill is one a great example
30:48
of what a chunk play does for you. You know,
30:50
you get a chunk play and I'm telling you it's
30:52
a high probability you're going to score points. Yeah it
30:54
was only three points, but it was points. And that's
30:57
the whole thing. That emphasis that the co Whiches have
31:00
talked about all week is you know, you got to
31:02
get those chunk plays and to Utah's defense man, you
31:05
got to eliminate them. And it was just guys, guys
31:08
getting lost in the secondary, staring in the backfield, not
31:10
reading their keys that resulted in that big play happening
31:14
against the Utah defense.
31:16
Speaker 1: Torey drives seven plays sixty three yards to fifty four
31:19
off the game clock as the sun now shining on
31:22
the field here at ricecl Stadium. Today's game being presented
31:25
by Smith the Official Game sponsored the University of Utah.
31:29
Speaker 3: Smith's fresh for everyone.
31:32
Speaker 1: Faulted up in the thirty five kicking south to north
31:34
here at Ricecral Stadium, a little breeze at the back
31:36
of the kicker.
31:37
Speaker 3: Low pezz.
31:42
Speaker 1: Knuckleball kick coming up short, Bloff's gonna let it hit.
31:45
It goes out of bounds and Utah will take that
31:48
every day of the week, and twice on Sunday that
31:50
one's gonna come out and they'll start first intend at
31:52
the thirty five yard line.
31:54
Speaker 8: Freakdig got about kicking team the ball we played for
31:57
the thirty five yard line.
31:59
Speaker 2: Where's day? And he wonder if the moisture on the
32:01
ball has any impact on it.
32:05
Speaker 1: So Utah's offense comes to the field, brought to you
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by Bud Light a spat stat for you. The last
32:09
stop by the Utah offense was the first three and
32:12
out of the year. They didn't have a three and
32:13
out ball last week against UCLA.
32:15
Speaker 2: It fell odd when the punter was coming on the
32:17
field so quickly.
32:19
Speaker 1: Devin dan Pierre brings the offense out Rogers with him,
32:22
throws the flankers screen to the outside way across the
32:24
field that dropped at the forty yard line in and
32:28
out of the arms of Tobias Merriweather. He hit him
32:30
right between the one and the epe, but he couldn't
32:32
hang on.
32:32
Speaker 2: Non Tobias was kind of feeling that pressure ball had
32:35
a little bit of knuckle on it too. That's a big,
32:38
long throw from one hash all the way out there,
32:40
and he just couldn't quite hang on to the ball.
32:43
Speaker 1: Utah really throwing the ball a bunch early so far
32:45
here Scott second down in ten for the thirty five
32:47
Rogers stays at the ball game two receivers right, and
32:50
they'll bring now Dallen Bentley in motion, he'll block.
32:53
Speaker 3: Now dam Pierre's.
32:54
Speaker 1: Gonna look down the field, He's gonna run, and lots
32:56
of running room for Devin. Forty five and out of
32:58
bounds and about the forty seven yard line goes Devin
33:00
damp here for a game of twelve usher down of
33:02
bounds by Jake East the safety. That's a first down
33:05
for Utah.
33:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you mentioned that that Utah is really throwing
33:09
the ball a lot, and Devin's really trying to work
33:11
on it. You can just see it. But clearly there
33:14
you know it's the best choice of running the ball.
33:17
Speaker 1: So after the forty seven. It goes as the sun
33:19
now shines and the rain has stopped. He's by himself
33:21
in the backfield. Now he'll bring a man in motion
33:23
into that backfield and flags fly and we're gonna have
33:26
motion against Utah.
33:28
Speaker 3: That was an awkward play from the start right there.
33:38
Speaker 7: Fall start offense number fifty two d Rob Pennerley.
33:42
Speaker 3: Where's that they get Michael Mokafisi with that one? This
33:45
is very odd.
33:45
Speaker 1: Last week Utah was relatively penalty free. They had three
33:48
all of last week. What do they have today?
33:50
Speaker 6: Day?
33:50
Speaker 3: They already have four today here Scott in the first quarter.
33:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again it's that focus. You know, guys, are
33:54
you really into this game like you should be? And
33:57
it's not a good sign.
34:00
Speaker 1: Empty backfield passing on first down, throwing to the outside,
34:03
caught there on the outside and then wrestled out of bounds.
34:05
Speaker 3: After a short game. Ryan Davis, one of.
34:09
Speaker 1: His favorite targets from New Mexico a year ago, picks
34:12
up six on the play. It'll be second down in nine.
34:15
Speaker 2: And Ryan did a nice job catching the ball, boom
34:17
just getting upfield, and that's what you want. You want
34:20
to see.
34:21
Speaker 1: Clock running three and a half to play second down
34:23
in nine for the forty eight yard line for Utah.
34:28
Hand off, Parker picking his way forward. Actually, that's Nate Johnson.
34:33
Nate Johnson in the game specialty player there, former quarterback
34:37
takes his doll all the way down to about the
34:38
forty five of cal Poly Actually done by Nate's third
34:42
down in short coming up.
34:43
Speaker 2: Well, it's really nice by Nate, and he's such an
34:45
athlete so fast. He's very patient there to you know,
34:48
kind of let the box set themselves up, and then
34:50
he explosively accelerated in the whole that that was very.
34:53
Speaker 1: Nice to see you until one out of two on
34:54
third down, bring a man in motion across the formation,
34:57
hand it to him on the outside.
34:59
Speaker 3: Guess who again?
35:00
Speaker 1: Nate Johnson again dives inside the forty and down to
35:03
about the thirty nine yard line gate of six, first
35:08
down for Utah. Ethan Rodriguez made the tackle and Utah
35:11
putting a nice drive together here late in the first quarter.
35:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's an athlete. I mean, he's fast too, and
35:16
we know about him from the past and this is
35:18
kind of but a great job just cutting up field.
35:21
He makes one cut gets north and south, which is
35:23
something I think he wasn't comfortable with before. But nice improvement.
35:27
Speaker 1: Smith stowed in the ball game. Lander Barton to the
35:29
ball game here for Utah and first down in ten
35:32
for the cow Poly thirty nine yard line damp here
35:35
to pass over the middle, caught by Barton. Lander makes
35:37
a man miss inside the thirty five, drags tacklers down
35:41
inside the thirty one to about the thirty yard line
35:44
eight and a half on first down for Lander.
35:46
Speaker 2: Barton see and that was that throw that Devin wasn't
35:48
getting in the first part. But he read it and
35:51
was confident to throw the football watching Lander man, he
35:54
got some gas to him. Then it just gets upfield
35:56
makes a nice play. He might make a tight end
35:59
out of him.
35:59
Speaker 1: Yet he was a heck of a pass catcher bright
36:02
in high school. Second down, he's short for Utah right
36:06
about the cow Poly thirty over the middle again.
36:09
Speaker 3: Caught again. First down for Utah.
36:11
Speaker 1: Ryan Davis on a roll rolls down to about the
36:14
twenty six at a gain of four and a half
36:16
at a first down, quick bro quick pop Brow and Davis
36:19
did a nice job picking that off.
36:21
Speaker 2: The turf and a little inaccurate throw. You got to
36:25
hit that better. And he can bust that up to
36:26
field for a big game.
36:27
Speaker 1: First down in ten, Hunter Andrews takes the hand off
36:31
inside the twenty, hand down to the nineteen, goes Andrews.
36:34
We bet Hunter's mom and dad of the tailgate tent,
36:37
they said, talk up our boy, he wants four touches. Well,
36:40
it's won right there, seven yard game.
36:43
Speaker 2: And give these coaches credit. They saw it last week.
36:45
They saw the explosion and they're like, we got to
36:48
figure out how to get him in the game. So
36:49
you've seen him as a pass catcher, You've seen him
36:51
in the backfield running the ball. He's mister versatility. Keith
36:56
Olsen to the ball game.
36:57
Speaker 1: Now, Devin Dan Pierre brings Smith Snodon across the four
37:00
throws in the flat. It's caught fifteen ten, down to
37:03
the nine yard line, goes Hunter Andrews.
37:06
Speaker 3: Again.
37:06
Speaker 1: He had another offensive weapon for Utah as they're deeper
37:10
now in the Canyon View Credit Union red zone. First
37:13
in gold, coming here at the nine yard line.
37:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is so great. And is this what's great
37:17
about this offense is a lot of weapons, a lot
37:19
of options, but it's it's just so north and south,
37:23
you know, just put them. They hit it quick and
37:24
they just get upfield. Hunter's trying to figure out. He's like, man,
37:27
I've never touched this ball sol so many times in
37:29
my whole time in Utah, probably including practice.
37:34
Speaker 1: Jumbo said, strength on the right hand side. Hunter Andrews
37:38
with Wildcat, He'll keep it himself to the five hulf
37:42
beend into the four yard line. A five yard game
37:45
for Hunter Andrews playing Wildcat. He brought Devon damp here
37:48
in motion.
37:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, Devin's sake. Yeah, I don't know if I like
37:51
this motion stuff. And you really think they're I mean,
37:54
they could give it to Devon because I mean, he's
37:55
a heck of a player. But that's that's the versatility
37:58
of Hunter anders You just saw that on display right there.
38:01
And this is the perfect game to do it. It
38:03
really is to get him that confidence, to get him
38:05
those reps.
38:06
Speaker 1: And to the first quarter here Utah threatening again. They
38:09
leaded fourteen to three over the cal Poly Mustang. So
38:12
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Speaker 3: Utah ran nineteen plays.
38:51
Speaker 1: Damp Pierre was eight of eleven for one hundred and
38:53
seven yards in a touchdown he ran.
38:55
Speaker 2: He had.
38:56
Speaker 1: One rush for twelve yards. I'm BADTYO.
39:00
Speaker 3: First quarter. I got to clean some things up on
39:01
defense a little bit, but not bad.
39:03
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the big surprise for me was cal
39:05
Poly moving ball a little bit more than I think
39:08
they would ever expected in the first half. A little
39:11
bit shaky on some of the function of the offense,
39:14
couple of false start penalties. I like that Utah is
39:17
really working in this game to get Devin damp Here
39:20
comfortable throwing the football.
39:24
Speaker 1: Second down in goal from the five yard line for Utah,
39:27
Jumbo said, here for the Utes, Hunter Andrews in the
39:30
backfield offset defensive lineman. They've been holding the ball because
39:38
the quarter now officially starts.
39:40
Speaker 3: TV's back.
39:43
Speaker 1: Damp Pire goes under center, turns and gives it to
39:46
Hunter Andrews pushing his way and tackled at about the three,
39:50
grabbed him around the ankles. Didn't get much of a
39:52
chance to get his legs. Goal in that time. It'll
39:54
be third down and goal here for Utah. Now, it's
39:56
been a good formation in the first game. I mean
39:58
Utah just clearly pounded ball up there.
40:00
Speaker 2: But it got that inside penetration that you thought just
40:03
didn't handle very well. Kind of blew up the play
40:05
before it ever started.
40:07
Speaker 1: Nate Johnson in way, Sean Parker in third down in Gold.
40:10
Speaker 3: They didn't give him any gain.
40:11
Speaker 1: In fact, he kept him at the five yard line.
40:15
Cal Pauly with four down linemen five near the line
40:17
of scrimmage, damp Peer out of the shotgut Devin brings
40:22
Ryan Davis in motion, looks over the middle, caught Ryan
40:24
Davis touchdown. A couple of former Lobos hooking up from
40:29
five yards out. Ryan Davis has his first Utah touchdown.
40:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a nice little pay. Guy goes in motion
40:36
and he just kind of gets lost underneath those linebackers.
40:38
If you remember the Chiefs and Chargers game, Travis Kelcey
40:42
kind of stopped and Patrick Mahomes missed it. But these
40:46
two clearly on the same page. He just kept going
40:48
and Devin great reed and decisive read for a touchdown.
40:52
Speaker 1: That's a Pepsi touchdown from damp Pier to Davis. Those
40:56
two guys connected a few times in New Mexico a
40:58
year ago. Dylan Curtiss that pat through and with fourteen
41:03
twenty to play here in the first half, it's Utah
41:06
twenty one and cal poly three.
41:10
Speaker 2: I tell you when you can you get third and
41:12
like six from the goal line, and you can score
41:15
a touchdown like that throwing a football because there's just
41:17
not many spaces there, and as a very well designed play,
41:21
motion is a hard thing for guys to handle in
41:25
the red zone defensively, can really kind of mess things up,
41:28
which it clearly did right there. But the best part
41:31
about it is that that's a quick read, hard read
41:34
and for Devin to see that and throw it accurately
41:36
like that's so close. That's a really nice play.
41:40
Speaker 1: That scoring drive twelve plays, sixty five yards. He took
41:43
five oh one off the game clock, and Devin dan
41:45
Pierre threw his second touchdown of the day, fourth on
41:48
the season, and Utah has opened up a twenty one
41:50
to three lead. Here, Mike Miller, thanks for listening in
41:56
today from Flaming Gorge.
41:58
Speaker 2: Wow.
41:58
Speaker 1: Apparently he's usually in the south west end zone, but
42:01
not today, enjoying the beauty and the views of Flaming
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Gorge today. Thanks for tuning in, Mike, appreciate it, and
42:07
thanks to everybody tuning in around the city, around the state,
42:10
maybe even around the world today. Wherever you may be
42:12
listening in, certainly glad. Look if you're nights, you're with us.
42:17
Speaker 2: If you're not going to be here, Flaming Gorge is
42:20
a good second option.
42:22
Speaker 1: Got a lot of Utah fans overseas as well, tuning
42:25
in from places around the world. So good to have
42:28
you guys with us tonight too. That kick from Dylan
42:30
Curtis another touchback, goes through the end zone and Ty
42:33
Diefenbach and the kW Poly offense will come out first
42:36
and ten for their own twenty five. They had a
42:38
nice drive last time resulted in a field.
42:40
Speaker 2: Goal, and it was with that chunk play that's what
42:42
they really got. They've done a nice job of throwing
42:45
a football here and just finding the right holes with
42:47
this Utah defense you talked about last week. Has this
42:50
secondary been tested, No, but they're kind of getting tested
42:53
in this first first part of this game.
42:58
Speaker 1: Washington and holy Field of the game. First and ten
43:03
from the cal Poly twenty five yard line. They motioned
43:08
holy Field out deepened Bock to throw over the middle boy.
43:11
He threaded the needle that time to Michael Brisco. That
43:14
ball was almost intercepted by Utah instead, we'll call it
43:17
almost a nine yard game. Smith Snowden had the coverage
43:20
of the play and Utah really, you know, they were
43:23
ready for this play. And it's just an excellent throw
43:26
and excellent play there by Califaula.
43:28
Speaker 2: This quarterback throws a ball, pretty decent, yav.
43:30
Speaker 3: He was a pig guy.
43:30
Speaker 1: He was recruited to the ACC four star out of
43:33
high school. Second down at one of the thirty four,
43:36
Risco comes in motion. They're gonna throw it to him
43:39
in the flat knock down and deflect it almost intercepted
43:42
jack How about Jackson, Betty, He's already got a pick
43:45
six today. He used that thirty nine inch vertival jump
43:48
nearly came up with that one as well, knocked it
43:49
down in complete third down.
43:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so savvy here, and it's kind of hard
43:54
by the quarterback because you you have to throw the
43:57
ball low because the guy's close and Jackson wasn't close
44:01
enough to where he could get the ball around him.
44:03
He's almost you know, it's almost one of those you
44:05
could pick right out of the air and have another
44:07
pick six.
44:09
Speaker 1: Thirteen forty five to play here in the first half,
44:11
third down in a yard deepen box with a tight
44:15
end in front of him at the thirty four yard line.
44:19
Utah moving around up front deepen box is gonna keep
44:22
it himself.
44:22
Speaker 5: He's not gonna get there.
44:28
Speaker 1: Nate Richie shot the gap and stopped him in the backfield.
44:32
That's he lost him a yard and fourth down coming up.
44:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's a big play. You know, you stop
44:36
a guy that big like that just in his tracks.
44:38
Utah goes zero coverage. They shoot the gaps, they just
44:42
they you know, they do what you have to do.
44:43
You just gotta If you get that that surge, that
44:46
penetration early, it'll blow up those quick hitting forty three
44:52
twenty is now fifty three.
44:55
Speaker 1: Glover back in the return to punt here for Utah,
44:57
Jesse Erlk Well punt from msign of his own twenty
45:00
yard line here thirteen oh five o'clock running to play
45:04
before halftime. Snap it left footed, kick is away. It's
45:08
a wobbler. Glover is gonna come up. Let it hit
45:11
Did it hit him? It did not, and it dies
45:13
at about the twenty four yard line.
45:16
Speaker 3: Not a whole lot on that one.
45:17
Speaker 1: From Erlk, but he kicked it away from Glover. Forty
45:21
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Speaker 1: Devin dam Pierre has four wide receivers and his tailback
46:08
way Sean Parker in the formation on first and ten
46:11
from his own twenty four yard line. Devon's gonna pass.
46:14
Surveys in the field, looking looking, scrambles out to his
46:17
left hand side. He's gonna run and he's gonna be
46:19
taken down in SATs. That's gonna be about a three
46:21
yard loss back to the twenty one yard line. Mikey
46:24
Tomado got him. Nobody was opened down the field and
46:27
he just ran out of real estate here on the
46:29
near sideline.
46:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of hard when he runs to his
46:31
off throw throwing hand and no one was really coming
46:34
back to the ball. There's three or four defenders out
46:36
there waiting.
46:38
Speaker 1: Parker stays in the ball game. Second down, thirteen, four
46:41
man down. Look here for the Mustangs. They check with
46:44
the sideline to the utes. Three receivers a tie end
46:46
to the back way Sean Parker. Damn Pierre throws the
46:50
flankers screen to the outside behind his man. Not much
46:53
there for Smith Snowden, he's tackled right about the line
46:56
of scrimmage for no game. Third down and thirteen coming up.
47:00
They're really asking him to make those long throws across
47:02
the field, aren't they?
47:03
Speaker 2: Yaya on a Flinker screen. It's hard because the defense
47:06
just has so much time to react as the ball's
47:08
in the air for so long.
47:08
Speaker 3: I mean, it's as good as you can get. Not
47:11
a super accurate throw. And Merriweather had two guys. He
47:14
picked one, the other guy got him.
47:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, So third down in thirteen here for Utah. By
47:20
the way, that sack against Dampierre was the first of
47:22
this year. Devon's gonna throw on third down and thirteen,
47:24
lots of time looking throwing down the field, high hanging
47:27
bally over shoots Maryweather incompletes at about the cal Poly
47:31
thirty two yard line, and that's gonna bring the punt
47:34
team out here. A second three and out. We didn't
47:36
have one last week. We've had two today.
47:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this was you know, it was kind of
47:41
set up by the sack early on but and he's
47:43
got all day to throw great great protection. Right there,
47:47
Ryan Davis was kind of sneaking out the backside there.
47:49
He's wide open, and you know he's really trying to
47:52
just give Tobias a chance. He throws the ball up
47:54
in the air and just go get it. I mean,
47:55
it's not in all that bad throw.
47:57
Speaker 1: Carson Cool had his own twenty six Ryan Phillipson for
48:01
his second part of the afternoon for Utah. This one's
48:04
high and hanging, not real long end over en. Cool's
48:07
gonna take it. He's gonna be swarmed immediately and taken
48:09
down at the thirty two yard line. Good coverage on
48:13
nat Cool tried to be the hero on that play.
48:15
He did hang on Luca Colderello with his second special
48:17
teams tackle.
48:18
Speaker 2: The day Today, ladies, I'm out.
48:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, We've got a time out on the field. Eleven
48:23
twenty five to play here before halftime. It's Utah twenty
48:26
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48:34
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48:51
quarterback in the ball game, Anthony Griggsby in now for
48:54
cal Poly. Paul Wolf told me this week he might
48:56
play two guys, and he will. Griggsby's a little bit
48:58
more of a runner. Played a little bit last week
49:01
against USD. He lined up in an offset pistol formation,
49:04
hands into the tailback and that's Washington and actually no,
49:09
he kept it himself.
49:10
Speaker 3: He handed that ball to.
49:13
Speaker 1: Salahi and he gets him all the way out near midfield. Well,
49:18
he fooled everybody with that option on that play, eighteen
49:20
yard gain in the first down to midfield. Washington stays
49:27
in the ball game. Grigsby in the shotgun, brings a
49:30
man in motion across the formation. He's gonna keep it
49:33
himself this time, and he's got it down to the
49:35
Utah forty five yard line.
49:36
Speaker 3: So Griggsby's come in giving him a shot in the arm.
49:38
Speaker 1: Tray Reynolds, he had to tackle five yard game and
49:40
they're in the Utah territory at the Utah forty five.
49:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, and those are challenging things. You know, you have
49:45
a guy that's predominantly a thrower, and then you come
49:47
in with a different pitcher. You know that he's a knuckleballer,
49:50
he's a curveball guy, and you got to adjust to it.
49:55
Speaker 1: Two tight ends on the left hand side, that'll be
49:57
Marshall and Honor step Washington's the tailback. Brisco comes to
50:03
the right hand side. Griggs be in the shotgun, takes
50:10
the snap, throws the flankers screen. It's a double pass
50:14
down the field man wide open and he overshot him. Oh,
50:18
he had Alec Marshall wide open at the fifteen yard
50:21
line and missed him. The trigger ration nearly worked for
50:25
cal Poly.
50:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, these are those good games for this for you know,
50:29
because because cal Poly goes, we don't have anything to lose.
50:32
So we're just gonna take our shots. And you've seen
50:34
you've seen those. I mean it's a wowlow. I mean,
50:38
if he gets it anywhere close to him, that's a touchdown.
50:41
Speaker 1: Third down and five coming up. Mustang zero for three
50:43
on third down. Two backs to the backfield, tight end right,
50:48
two receivers left and right from the Utah forty five
50:51
yard line.
50:53
Speaker 3: Griggs B keeps it out of.
50:56
Speaker 1: The right hand side run pass option and he will
50:58
be very close to per down yardage. Trey Reynolds tackles
51:03
him right at the forty. I think that's gonna be
51:05
good enough. Let's see where they spot it they do,
51:09
they'll move the chains. First and ten for cal Poly.
51:12
The legs of Griggsby got that first down.
51:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's it. This team is playing tough. You know,
51:16
you gotta really step it up here because they're not
51:19
just here to collect a check.
51:21
Speaker 1: First and ten for the Utah forty Anthony Griggsby again
51:24
operating with Tyree Washington. Now they'll check with a sideline
51:29
wide receiver, right wide receiver left, there's two of them,
51:32
tight end of the light in the right slot. Griggs
51:37
B's gonna throw back pedals to the outside up the
51:40
sideline incomplete. Pretty good coverage out there by Scooby Davis
51:46
Stride for stride with Michael Briscoe.
51:48
Speaker 3: Second down coming up.
51:49
Speaker 2: The interesting chess master right there. Utah shows a zero
51:52
coverage like they're bringing folks, and you see or calw
51:56
Poly change changes the play. Utah changes the coverage and
52:00
drop back and zone and just kind of nails him
52:02
on it.
52:03
Speaker 1: Utah's rushed predominantly four last week and this week.
52:06
Speaker 3: Second down in ten, now.
52:09
Speaker 1: Washington in the backfield, three receiver, look here for Grigsby
52:13
brings a man in motion, keeps it himself, tripped up
52:16
and knocked down. Excellent read by John Henry Daily from
52:20
the opposite side. Shot it ramped him, took him down
52:23
for a loss of about a half a yard.
52:25
Speaker 3: Third down coming up.
52:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of guys have played well on these
52:28
defences and ends. But John Handley man, he just has
52:31
a motor and it just reads that play so well
52:33
and make and makes a play.
52:35
Speaker 1: One for four on third down, one for one on
52:37
his drive. Little bit up front, off sides on Utah
52:42
out to the outside.
52:43
Speaker 3: They go up the field and incomplete.
52:45
Speaker 6: Uh.
52:47
Speaker 1: And now they're gonna be two flags on the play.
52:49
They're gonna call pass interference on Scooby Davis. There was
52:52
an off side up front on Utah. We've got flags everywhere,
52:57
and I think they're all against the utes. Let's see
53:06
that might have been offensive pass interference. We'll see he
53:08
did climb over Scooby Davis. Yeah, it's you don't see
53:13
that very often. I mean, it does happen, but not
53:15
very often, and they're trying to sort all this. I mean,
53:18
I don't know there's official that has a flag in
53:20
his pocket. Everyone wanted to get into the fray of
53:22
this one.
53:23
Speaker 3: Here's our head referee, he'll give us the call.
53:27
Speaker 8: There are two fouls in the play, both by the
53:29
defense outside defense number ninety one to depon to climb
53:35
pass interference defense number nine fifteen yard finality automatic first down.
53:41
Speaker 1: There was a lot of contact up that far sideline,
53:43
but I gotta say, Brisco, he climbed right over the
53:48
top of Scooby Davis. We're going to look at the
53:49
replay here to see it. They'll move it to the
53:51
thirty one yard line. They'll be first in ten. Yeah,
53:56
that's a tough call. I mean, that's just you know,
53:58
hand fighting both ways well, and he doesn't feel like
54:01
he's like deflected his motion. First and ten for the
54:05
Utah thirty make it twenty five yard line, twenty six
54:08
yard line. Tyree Washington tries the left side, doesn't get anything,
54:11
then tripped up, taken down almost immediately. Had our first
54:16
lymph of Tao Johnson in the ballgame. Hadn't seen him
54:18
in the early downs. He's in right now, second down
54:22
and ten, eight and a half to play before halftime,
54:26
twenty one three Utah. Ringsby's given him a little shot
54:30
in the arm on this series. Three receivers left for
54:32
Anthony Grigsby. Latah showed a little pressure off in near edge.
54:41
Play clock at eight. Now Utah is gonna shift around.
54:44
Play clock at four, play clock at three. Grigsby takes
54:48
the snap in back pedals. Here's the blitz in his face.
54:51
Speaker 3: Pass to the.
54:51
Speaker 1: Outside incomplete broken up Jackson Benny. They were trying to
54:56
squeeze that into Sullivan. Benny almost had his second of the.
55:00
Speaker 2: Day, and you know he read it well and he
55:02
was just in the right position. You know, he just
55:04
does a good job of maintaining his leverage right there,
55:07
goes up pretty high, I mean, probably a better throw,
55:11
and he actually picks this ball off.
55:17
Speaker 3: Third down and ten.
55:23
Speaker 1: From the Utah twenty six full house backfield, two backs
55:27
in the quarterback wide receiver in motion. They handed straight
55:32
ahead to Washington. He gets nothing. He's dripping back after
55:35
a gain of a yard, maybe a yard and a half,
55:37
to the twenty four yard line, and I'll bring up
55:41
fourth down Va.
55:41
Speaker 3: He was there to lead it. They gotta bring the
55:43
field goal kicker out. I think so.
55:47
Speaker 2: Well's Utah defense has gotten some looks that it hadn't
55:50
seen yet this year. They get ball, they're they're throwing
55:52
the ball down the field, and these these dbs have
55:54
not been in a game where they've been challenged like
55:56
they have been today.
55:57
Speaker 1: Jean Luca tomorrow in the kick here, it'll be a call.
56:03
It about a forty two yard attempt. He went two
56:08
for two a week ago. His long a week ago
56:10
was thirty out of the hold of the punter. Jesse
56:16
Erlick snap his back, the kick is away, it's high,
56:19
it's end over end, and what do we have right.
56:24
Speaker 5: To the kick the leg?
56:26
Speaker 9: Game?
56:27
Speaker 2: Oh? All four five apility four.
56:30
Speaker 1: Goodness, gracious, you just came life a little bit harder.
56:33
Run your own kicker right there. Forty two is going
56:35
to become forty seven here for Jean Luca.
56:37
Speaker 2: They iced their own kicker well. And there's a guy
56:40
that was supposed to be in there. He ran in late,
56:42
which delayed the whole action.
56:45
Speaker 1: So from the thirty seven yard line is where it
56:49
will go down. A forty seven yard attempt for Jean
56:52
Luca Tomorrow seven oh nine to play here in the
56:58
second quarter, snap is down, the kick is away, it's high,
57:03
it's end over end, and it's good. Second field gold
57:06
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57:11
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Speaker 1: Here's our yardage in the second quarter, cal Poly thirty
57:52
seven yards.
57:52
Speaker 3: You tak two.
57:54
Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: Count Utah just has the one second quarter drive.
57:58
Speaker 1: But still cal Poly got a little something going with
58:00
Grigsby on that last drive.
58:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was a good change up and you
58:04
know he really kind of sparked things a little bit
58:06
through the ball better than I thought he would and
58:08
ran them ball quite effectively. And it's one of those things.
58:11
It's just kind of an adjustment going from a thrower
58:13
to a running type of quarterback, bit of a challenge.
58:15
It feels like Utah offensively is trying to work on
58:18
a part of their game.
58:19
Speaker 3: As opposed to just running their offense.
58:21
Speaker 2: Running their offense.
58:23
Speaker 1: Lopez has it teed up kicking north to south here
58:25
at rice Ecles in the sun, high end over and kick.
58:30
We'll see if Glover wants to let it return. Doe
58:32
pill let it go out for a touchback, and Utah
58:34
will have it first intended their own twenty five yard line.
58:37
Cale Pauly's rent twelve plays, Utah five. I've got thirty
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seven yards. Utah's got too. We'll see what they can
58:43
do on this drive.
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Speaker 2: The utes.
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Speaker 3: This drive brought to you by butt Light Well Being.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in Utah fans to rice Ecles for the first
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time this year. Easy to drink it, easy to enjoy
58:52
that spud light. Devin damp Pierre comes out way Sean
58:56
Parker with it. We really haven't seen Utah try to
58:58
run the football have one.
58:59
Speaker 2: No, not at all and h you know again, it
59:01
just feels like it's about Devin Dampierre getting comfortable in
59:05
the drop to throw throw game.
59:07
Speaker 3: Throws this one to the outside. It's caught there.
59:09
Speaker 1: Merriweather makes a man miss and he picks up ten
59:12
yards after the thirty five yard line. Good pitch and
59:15
catch from dam Pier to Merriweather at a gate of ten
59:17
in a first down.
59:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, the timing location of that throws nice because then
59:21
Tobias can actually, you know, make a move here, which
59:24
he does, and even though he makes a move, he
59:26
still gets upfield. I mean, that's a that's a that's
59:28
a ten yard play on first down.
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Speaker 1: That will work for Utah. By the way, Jared Cumpan
59:33
not playing today for the Utes. Alex Harrison playing at
59:36
center today for Utah. And now we have a time out. Now,
59:39
I think it's gonna be a substitution in fraction on Utah,
59:42
isn't it.
59:42
Speaker 2: Now. Tobias ran on the other side of the ball,
59:46
and uh and and so that's it's gonna be a
59:48
false star. It's gonna be off side on the offense.
59:51
He's trying to get from one side of the field
59:53
over to the other.
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Speaker 3: And he actually think I've ever seen that.
59:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, most guys don't do that. I've never seeing
1:00:00
a guy run in front like he just did.
1:00:01
Speaker 8: Offense number eighteen, five yard penalty is first out.
1:00:06
Speaker 2: Okay, Tobias is just like, I want to get on
1:00:10
the air. Look anyway I can, I can get airtime. Gonna,
1:00:12
I'm gonna, I'm gonna get a penalty. That probably is
1:00:15
an answer to a trivia question.
1:00:17
Speaker 1: Hey, I don't think I've ever seen a guy run
1:00:19
down the line of scrimmage, but on the defensive side
1:00:21
of the ball that he goes in motion or comes
1:00:23
in as a sub first down, they're gonna throw it
1:00:26
again to the outside. Merriweather catches this one, makes a
1:00:28
man miss, gets out to the forty and forty one
1:00:30
yard line, so he made amends there. They're gonna mark
1:00:32
him down at the forty That's gonna be a gain
1:00:34
of almost ten yards. And this is an important aspect
1:00:40
of Utah's game. You know who's going to catch the
1:00:42
ball down the field, and so Tobias is that guy.
1:00:45
They're trying to get comfortable. Second down in five, this
1:00:47
will be a hand off straight ahead and Rogers beyond
1:00:50
the forty five. Bouncing off tacklers, gets to the forty
1:00:53
seven for a seven yard gain and a Utah first down.
1:00:56
Speaker 3: Now Utah is gonna go with Tempa.
1:00:57
Speaker 2: I love how these running backs are run. Boy, they
1:00:59
just run hard downhill. Of course, that offensive line gives
1:01:02
him a nice clean look to make a read high snap.
1:01:05
Speaker 1: Devin goes up and gets it, hands to Rogers again,
1:01:08
second level, beyond the fifty and down to the forty
1:01:11
six almost forty six yard line for a gate of
1:01:14
seven yards.
1:01:14
Speaker 2: And you have to wonder if Utah felt like, yeah,
1:01:16
we can do this going into the game, but we'd
1:01:18
really like to work on more than just out of me.
1:01:20
It's a huge hole you to buy seven yards down
1:01:23
field before he gets touched.
1:01:24
Speaker 3: Rogers stays at the ball game.
1:01:25
Speaker 1: Second down in four, hand off to the carry again.
1:01:28
He goes forward, keeps those legs churning it dives for
1:01:31
the first.
1:01:31
Speaker 3: Down he needed four.
1:01:33
Speaker 1: He picked up five to the forty two yard line.
1:01:34
That was great second effort by Rogers.
1:01:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's just a straight dive. I mean they've
1:01:38
run to the right side. They've run it two or
1:01:41
three times in a rows, you know, so he gets
1:01:42
you tight end blocking, you get that offensive line blocking
1:01:45
up there. But just really nice hard running by those
1:01:48
running backs.
1:01:52
Speaker 1: Clock running inside of five to play before halftime. Twenty
1:01:55
one sixth utah damn pier play action pass this time
1:01:58
looking serving to his left, now back to his right,
1:02:02
keeping his eyes down the field.
1:02:03
Speaker 3: Has a man.
1:02:04
Speaker 2: Opened down the field up and in and out of
1:02:07
the hands of the tight end.
1:02:08
Speaker 3: Dallan Bentley.
1:02:11
Speaker 1: Oh, Dallan hit snuck behind the defense, but he couldn't
1:02:14
come down with it.
1:02:15
Speaker 3: That would have been a touchdown.
1:02:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Dellen is bigger than the guy that he's
1:02:18
facing trying to hit him up the scene to start with,
1:02:21
Devin does a nice job, and Bentley's got to go
1:02:25
up in the air. He's got to fill that defender
1:02:27
behind him. He's got to use his.
1:02:28
Speaker 3: Using his body like walking out good tight ends.
1:02:31
Speaker 2: We'll do that.
1:02:33
Speaker 1: So second down in ten from the cal Poly forty
1:02:36
one yard line, way Sean Parker checks back in. He's
1:02:40
the uh wildcat running back here. Wayshan picking his.
1:02:43
Speaker 3: Way off that right side and rolls his way down
1:02:46
to about.
1:02:46
Speaker 1: The thirty six for a gain of five on the plane.
1:02:49
I've Devin a little break on that play. We'll see
1:02:50
if he comes back in on this one.
1:02:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe Devon's arms tired throwing the ball so much
1:02:54
and all the way down the field. But uh, you
1:02:56
know way Shawn, just you know your block well when
1:03:00
you can run up into the line to the left
1:03:02
and then come all the way back to the right,
1:03:04
and I mean to make that kind of cutback, it's
1:03:06
because your guys up front are really blocking.
1:03:08
Speaker 1: You talk three out of five on third down, face
1:03:09
a third down and five here from the cow poly
1:03:11
thirty six yard line, dam Pierre back in Parker next
1:03:14
to him. They motion Waishan out of the backfield. Devon's
1:03:16
going to backpedal to pass the rose. The flankers screen
1:03:19
got by Smith, Nobody ran backwards. Smith ran backwards, and
1:03:23
Victory Johnson tackled him. And that's gonna bring up fourth down,
1:03:26
fourth down and long fourth down in about ten and
1:03:30
we'll see if they bring the field goal team out here.
1:03:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a play. It's that little inside screen, you know,
1:03:36
it's not out on the you know, out on the
1:03:37
numbers where you normally get those, and they're like, man,
1:03:41
you gotta hit those, have to hit so quick, and
1:03:43
it just was way too slow developing and just got
1:03:46
blown up before it could ever get started.
1:03:47
Speaker 1: I'm actually surprised they didn't try the field goal here.
1:03:50
Oryan Phillips will come in instead. We've seen Dylan Curtis
1:03:55
hit from sixty plus in scrimmages. In practice, Phillips will
1:03:58
kick it away though, end over end kick. They're gonta
1:04:02
let it hit and get caught. Oh goodness, Luca Calderella again.
1:04:06
The gunner caught it and downed it at the five
1:04:09
yard line.
1:04:10
Speaker 3: Thirty six yard punt, no return.
1:04:12
Speaker 1: Nicely done by Phillips and a ninety five yard field
1:04:15
here for cal Polly with three thirteen to play before halftime.
1:04:18
Speaker 2: It must be nice to just run all the way
1:04:20
down the field and catch the punt out of the air.
1:04:22
It's like like the road runner in those cartoons or
1:04:25
Bugs Bunny. You know, it's like playing catch with yourself,
1:04:29
you know, just I'm gonna kick the ball the way
1:04:31
down the field here and actually catch it.
1:04:33
Speaker 1: Well done by Calderella. Griggsby comes out for a second
1:04:37
consecutive drive. Holy fields his tailback for the five yard line.
1:04:41
You call's got all three timeouts if they can get
1:04:44
a three and out here, they've got a good chance
1:04:45
to get it back and score before halftime. Griggsby from
1:04:49
his goal line in the shotgun, hands it off to
1:04:53
his wide receiver, who is gonna be ripped down from
1:04:56
behind smith Snowden got him.
1:04:59
Speaker 3: That was my Gilbrisco.
1:05:02
Speaker 1: In a yard lost back to the four yard line.
1:05:06
Speaker 2: You know it might be nice, you know where it's
1:05:09
like you have a bad day at play on offense
1:05:11
and then you just take out your frustration go on
1:05:13
defense and go make a great play.
1:05:14
Speaker 1: By the way, that was actually Tayo Johnson, not Smith's.
1:05:16
Not good to see Tayo with the ball again. Second down,
1:05:19
an eleven from inside of his end zone. This time Griggsby,
1:05:25
you'll check with the sideline with ten on the play cloth.
1:05:29
Now he changes the play. Utah will rush four from
1:05:34
the end zone.
1:05:34
Speaker 2: Griggsby to pass over the middle, knocked away by Jackson.
1:05:38
Speaker 1: Benny again. Benny is knocked two down today, had picked
1:05:44
one off for a touchdown. They were trying to squeeze
1:05:46
it into the slot receiver Brooks Wheatley.
1:05:48
Speaker 3: Third down coming up.
1:05:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jackson should have picked that off. He ran right
1:05:51
in front of the play You know, maybe he needs
1:05:54
get on the drugs machine again or sometimes giving him
1:05:57
confidence because he's catching the ball out of the air,
1:05:59
but he should have that one.
1:06:01
Speaker 1: One for five on third down two twenty six to
1:06:05
play before halftime from their own four yard line from
1:06:09
the end zone, griggs beat in the shotgun.
1:06:13
Speaker 3: Here comes the rush.
1:06:14
Speaker 1: Here comes the blitz class caught by Brisco over the middle,
1:06:17
first down yardage to the sixteen maybe seventeen yard line,
1:06:22
thirteen yards at a first down.
1:06:24
Speaker 3: Great throw by Griggsby.
1:06:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta feel that as a defense, you know,
1:06:27
they just they run motion into the boundary and just
1:06:30
leave that whole wide side of the field wide open.
1:06:34
That's just a very common route that offenses do, and
1:06:36
you gotta sense that and feel that and make a
1:06:38
better play on it.
1:06:39
Speaker 1: That takes us to the two minute time out here
1:06:41
at Rice Ecle Stadium, two minutes to play in the
1:06:43
first half.
1:06:45
Speaker 3: Our first half.
1:06:45
Speaker 1: Brought to you by Smith and Pepsi Utah twenty one
1:06:49
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Speaker 3: Ten seven hundred, and the Ute Sports Network.
1:06:58
Speaker 1: Almost halftime here in Salt Le City, U Talk twenty
1:07:01
one cal Poly six. We'll hear from Kyle Winningham coming
1:07:05
up before they head into the locker room.
1:07:07
Speaker 3: Sly will catch up with him.
1:07:10
Speaker 1: Cal Poly football first and ten after converting on that
1:07:13
last third down of their own seventeen two minutes to play,
1:07:15
uteh still got.
1:07:15
Speaker 3: All three timeouts.
1:07:18
Speaker 1: I think cal Poly's found a little rhythm with this kid,
1:07:20
Anthony Griggsby in a quarterback.
1:07:21
Speaker 3: We'll see what they can do right here first and ten.
1:07:23
Speaker 1: If they get creative with it or if they play
1:07:26
at conservative, they'll get the football to begin the second
1:07:28
half with the bus Stags.
1:07:31
Speaker 2: Gotta be ready for trick plays.
1:07:33
Speaker 1: By the way, Jackson Benny having himself and dated a
1:07:36
four tackles, three solo, three pass breakups, and a pick six.
1:07:40
Pretty good day at the office for mister Benny. First
1:07:42
and ten quarterback keeps it out on the edge, They
1:07:46
track him down and drop him down after a two
1:07:48
yard game. John Henry Daily didn't run like a defensive
1:07:51
end that time, ran like a linebacker and track down
1:07:53
Grigsby from behind. Utah will take a time out.
1:07:56
Speaker 2: Yeah. All these defensive linemen are really good about redirecting
1:08:00
on plays that look like they're going to go to
1:08:02
the inside and second and then and then they uh
1:08:06
redirect and and John Henry is just an effort guy,
1:08:11
you know when he just commits all the way and
1:08:14
head looked like you got a little little little thing
1:08:17
there when he when he made that play. But just
1:08:20
love the effort, you know. And effort just takes you
1:08:22
a long waist. And it really especially as a defensive end.
1:08:25
Speaker 1: And I mentioned earlier we hadn't seen uh uh Jared
1:08:29
Kump today. We also haven't seen Logan Fano today. I've
1:08:31
seen the youngsters the defensive end today for Utah.
1:08:34
Speaker 2: And and for me, I'm okay with that. I want
1:08:37
I want to develop that depth and get these guys
1:08:39
game experience. And they've seen some looks this CALP. This
1:08:42
cal Pol team is pretty decent.
1:08:44
Speaker 1: Second down at eight Griggs being the shotgun shadows creeping
1:08:47
across the field here at rice Ecles, Utah showed a
1:08:50
little pressure. Jackson Barton jumps toward the line of scrimmage
1:08:54
play clock at thirteen pistol formation play action roll to
1:08:58
the right hand sideball knock down, intercepted.
1:09:02
Speaker 5: It's intercepted. John o'hall picked it off off the deflection
1:09:08
down to the cal poly one yard line.
1:09:11
Speaker 2: He knocked it back in the cornerback and then took
1:09:13
it off his helmet for an interception.
1:09:16
Speaker 5: What a play by home.
1:09:18
Speaker 2: Yeah. And you know, John Hall is one of those
1:09:21
guys that you know, changed positions, great awareness right here,
1:09:24
just a great interception, almost gonna get two. Pick six
1:09:27
is in the same game here, and he John is
1:09:30
just a guy that's just gotten more and more comfortable.
1:09:33
And he's an athlete, and he's a playmaker. And you
1:09:35
saw it right there.
1:09:37
Speaker 3: One a four to two.
1:09:38
Speaker 1: It is played by John who hally batted it right
1:09:40
back into the helmet of Grigsby and then picked it
1:09:43
out him in air first in Gold Utah in the
1:09:46
canyon View Credit Union, red zone, full house, backfield, damn
1:09:51
pire under center, whistles blow and what do we have?
1:09:55
Speaker 3: A time out taken by cal Poly.
1:10:00
Speaker 8: Tell him out, Tom Polly their second orty seconds.
1:10:05
Speaker 1: Well, I'm just gonna tell you right now, they can
1:10:06
call time out till the cows come home. I'm not
1:10:08
sure they're gonna have much luck against that jumbo formation.
1:10:11
Speaker 2: Scott Na. This is a and and you know the
1:10:14
first time they did it, you Thaugh just lined up
1:10:15
and said, hey, I'm running to the right. This one,
1:10:18
you kind of get the indication late. They shift the
1:10:21
guy late, and it makes it makes it harder to
1:10:24
really adjust to it, and they're on you before you
1:10:26
can really, you know, really make play. I've been very impressed.
1:10:30
I was impressed with Jason Beck in his his just
1:10:34
his philosophy in the red zone and how he runs
1:10:37
a football and he runs it effectively, and it's part
1:10:39
of Look, if I'm gonna run it, I'm gonna put
1:10:41
all these jumbo guys in there, and I'm gonna give
1:10:43
us the best shot out get in the yards.
1:10:48
Speaker 1: That long get in is one of the up backs
1:10:50
in this jumbo formation. Rogers behind Bentley and Dan Pierre
1:10:55
Devin turns, gives it to Rogers, pushes his way into
1:10:58
the end zone off the left side for a touchdown.
1:11:03
Excellent surge by the left hand side, and Carrie Rodgers
1:11:09
has a one yard touchdown with a minute forty four
1:11:11
to play before halftime.
1:11:12
Speaker 3: Here at rice Ecles.
1:11:13
Speaker 2: Well, and you have a you have like a wishbone backfield,
1:11:17
and all of them are in three point stances.
1:11:19
Speaker 3: And they're all over three hundred ten.
1:11:20
Speaker 2: And just they're just they're all leaning forward and it's
1:11:22
just like here we go and uh carry just does
1:11:25
a nice job of finding the crease and getting a touchdown.
1:11:28
Speaker 1: That touchdown by Rogers a pepsi touchdown. He is second
1:11:31
of the year. He had won last week against UCLA.
1:11:34
Dylan Curtis knocks the pat through boy Dave Spataford had
1:11:38
to work for that scoring drive. One play, one yard,
1:11:41
three seconds. That's easy work for the spatstat right there,
1:11:46
and Utah leads in twenty eight to six. Nice work, Dave.
1:11:50
I gotta tell you, Scott, Utah could still get the
1:11:52
ball back again before half times.
1:11:54
Speaker 2: I know. That's what I was just thinking. If cal
1:11:55
Paly gets aggressive, throws the ball, get some incompletions, I think,
1:11:59
what does you Utah have? They still have two times
1:12:02
two Yeah, I still got two timeouts. I mean, they
1:12:03
got got a lot to work with here and and
1:12:08
cal Poly, to their credit, which I appreciate, they're here
1:12:12
to play again. They're they're they're they're making efforts, They're
1:12:15
they're they're swinging for the fency Hon saying, you know
1:12:18
you got to really watch out for trick plays. You
1:12:20
know that the hook and ladder, you know, just all
1:12:22
kinds of crazy double throws, you know, reverse passes. You
1:12:26
just got to be aware because they're gonna try anything
1:12:29
they can to score points.
1:12:30
Speaker 1: A little breeze at the back of Daling Curtis here
1:12:33
is he'll kick it deep from south to north. Trey
1:12:36
Wilson stands at his own four yard line. Twenty eight
1:12:38
six Utah. That last turnover the interception the second of
1:12:44
the day, brought to you by Stratus hr. Utah has
1:12:47
got two takeaways, one a pick six, so the other
1:12:50
one a near pick six plus two in the turnover category.
1:12:54
Here's Curtis's kick. That's a dandy. Dylan knocks it through
1:12:57
the end zone for a touchback and cal Poly will
1:13:00
have it first and ten at their own twenty five
1:13:02
yard line. Be interesting to see if they stick with
1:13:04
Griggsby here, if they bring Deefenbach back. Yeah, Griggsby's because
1:13:09
they pulled Deefenbach after he threw his pick six.
1:13:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, And Griggsby just seems to kind of have more
1:13:14
of a spark, you know. He just he's more of
1:13:17
a threat. You know, he can run the ball more effectively,
1:13:20
and he throws the ball pretty deecer. I mean, that
1:13:22
ball got batted, but it wasn't because of how he
1:13:24
threw it.
1:13:24
Speaker 1: He was at Nevada a year ago. Didn't play, but
1:13:26
he was at Nevada. Also played at the College of
1:13:29
San Mateo in California. He's in the shotgun is Anthony Griggsby,
1:13:34
with Tyree Washington next to it. Poor man down front
1:13:37
here for Utah first and ten for the twenty five.
1:13:40
Speaker 3: Griggsby's going to keep it into.
1:13:41
Speaker 1: The hole and knock down Tao Johnson got him at
1:13:46
about the twenty seven twenty eight yard line for a
1:13:48
game of three.
1:13:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, Utah's going to see what cal
1:13:52
Poly does here to try to call that second You know,
1:13:54
if they're just going to run the ball, be conservative.
1:13:57
Speaker 1: See what they do here on second down at seven
1:13:59
o'clockrunning with an eight twenty four to play before halftime.
1:14:03
I gotta let that play clock trickle down right now?
1:14:05
Is cal Poly?
1:14:06
Speaker 2: I think yep?
1:14:10
Speaker 1: Fifteen fourteen thirteen. If Utah gets a stop here, they
1:14:15
may use that time out. Second down and seven for
1:14:18
Griggsby takes the back pedals, throws the screen past nearly
1:14:22
intercepted again. Oh goodness, gracious in the area to make
1:14:28
the play couldn't come up with it that time.
1:14:31
Speaker 3: They grab at Evans.
1:14:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, Utah read this well, and it helps you talk
1:14:34
now because they could deserve a time out.
1:14:36
Speaker 1: Yep, it was John o'hall. So now the clock stuffed.
1:14:39
With exactly a minute to play, third down and seven here.
1:14:44
If they don't convert, Utah will get the ball back.
1:14:50
Griggsby checks with.
1:14:51
Speaker 3: The sideline, backs up into the gun, Washington on his right,
1:15:00
Utah showing pressure. Here they come.
1:15:02
Speaker 1: Griggsby throws it long to the outside as a man
1:15:04
out there, but overshot him. Scooby Davis got kind of
1:15:10
spun that time. Jordan Garrison was open, but Griggsby missed him.
1:15:14
And with fifty six seconds to play, that'll bring up
1:15:16
fourth down in the punt team likely to come out
1:15:18
here for cal Paula.
1:15:19
Speaker 2: Well, and it's huge for you talk because they still
1:15:21
preserve those timeouts and they've got plenty of time here
1:15:24
to get down the field and at least, you know,
1:15:26
get something. These are these situations right here where you
1:15:30
can OutKick your coverage and this is one of those
1:15:33
special teams times where you can make a nice run
1:15:36
on the punt.
1:15:37
Speaker 1: Glover into return and we haven't seen much of a
1:15:39
return game, yet this year be a great time for
1:15:41
ray Shaw to maybe break one off at his own
1:15:43
thirty yard line. Erlic will punt from inside of his
1:15:46
own twenty left footed kick is high and spiraling and driving.
1:15:51
Glover back gets returnable from the twenty Glover up the field,
1:15:55
twenty five Glover to the outside thirty Glover to the
1:15:58
thirty five forty fifty forty.
1:16:00
Speaker 2: Five forty he tripped up at the cow Poly thirty
1:16:04
yard line.
1:16:07
Speaker 1: That a boy, ray Sean the best return of the
1:16:09
year for Utah. It was the punter that got him.
1:16:12
After a fifty one yard punt return by ray Sean Glover.
1:16:17
Speaker 2: And as I said right before the punt, you know
1:16:19
a lot of times you out kick the coverage and
1:16:21
that's what happens. And Glover does just a beautiful job
1:16:24
of setting up this run. He goes to the inside,
1:16:26
sets everyone up, and he gets great blocking and discipline balking.
1:16:29
You know, it's very easy to block someone in the
1:16:32
back of that situation.
1:16:33
Speaker 1: First in ten Utah for Devin Dan Pierre at the
1:16:36
cow Poly thirty yard line. Devon's gonna pass four man
1:16:39
rush looking down the field. All he had Ryan Davison
1:16:41
overshot him. Fall might have been deflected at the line
1:16:44
of scrimmage, but Davis was open at about the fifteen.
1:16:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, aggressive call here, you know, taking a shot down
1:16:51
the field and just just sells on him just a
1:16:53
little bit.
1:16:54
Speaker 3: Utah can use the whole field. They've got two time outs.
1:16:56
Speaker 1: Way Sean Parker in with him, trio of pass catchers
1:16:59
on the right hand, inside Merriweather by himself on the left.
1:17:02
On second down and ten four man rush again, damp
1:17:05
Pierre looking to the outside as a man wide open
1:17:07
twenty fifteen, ten five and out of bounds. Is that
1:17:12
Dallan Bentley? It is Dallan Bentley just kind of snuck out.
1:17:17
It was actually JJ Buchanan.
1:17:19
Speaker 2: Well, it was a nice a nice read by Devin
1:17:21
here he's looking down the field. We've got plenty of
1:17:23
time to throw the ball, and delivers a nice throw there,
1:17:26
and you know, JJ almost almost scores all.
1:17:30
Speaker 3: The way down to the six yard line.
1:17:32
Speaker 2: And you still have two timeouts. You got plenty of
1:17:34
time here. You can run twenty six seconds, do whatever
1:17:36
you want. In the backfield for Utah.
1:17:39
Speaker 1: Is Nate Johnson, former quarterback now weapon for Utah. Nate's
1:17:45
gonna roll to the right side, keeping himself out to
1:17:48
the outside. Nate's got the five and out of bounds
1:17:50
and about the three yard line. Let's see where they
1:17:54
mark him down. I think it's gonna be about the three.
1:17:56
It is twenty seconds remain second down goal from about
1:18:00
the six snake of the three yard We'll.
1:18:02
Speaker 2: Tell you what, Nate Johnson has really made an improvement
1:18:04
on his running because he sets to the inside and
1:18:07
then he jumps back to the outside, and that's something
1:18:09
you didn't see from him in the past. It's pretty
1:18:11
pretty nifty run.
1:18:13
Speaker 1: Second and goal from the three. Bentley on the right
1:18:15
hand side, Parker next to damp Pier. Devon goes to
1:18:19
the line changes the play backs up into the shotgun.
1:18:26
Now Bentley steps back to the line of scrimmage. Devon
1:18:29
takes the snap, hands at the Parker way. Shan plows
1:18:32
forward and driven back at about the two for a
1:18:35
one yard game at the time out taken by Utah.
1:18:38
Speaker 2: That'll be their second see and that's really nice because
1:18:40
you have your whole playbook. You can run the ball
1:18:42
like that, you know, take a shot and you still
1:18:45
still you still have plenty you can run it again
1:18:48
if you want it.
1:18:49
Speaker 1: And the Canyon View Credit Union red zone again or
1:18:51
the University of Utah facing third down in goal from
1:18:54
about the two yard line. Well, they ran Devon damp
1:18:57
Peer against UCLA. It was kind of a student body
1:19:00
right last time. I don't mind that call at all,
1:19:03
do you?
1:19:03
Speaker 2: Oh? No, those are because it's just it's about as
1:19:06
high percentage as you can get on the play because
1:19:09
you have the maximum number of blockers, you have a
1:19:11
really nifty runner. It's just a super high percentage play.
1:19:15
And so is their wishbone.
1:19:17
Speaker 3: You know.
1:19:17
Speaker 2: They when Utah runs the football, they they just because
1:19:21
of their quarterback having the ability to run it, they
1:19:23
just can create mismatches and getting those tough yards down
1:19:27
on the goal line.
1:19:28
Speaker 1: Fifteen seconds remain third down and goal with the two
1:19:33
damp Pierre and Utah bringing the big boys in Hunter Andrews,
1:19:37
Nickarrie Rodgers, Dallan Bentley. They've also got Mikedutioli the defensive
1:19:45
tackle lining up on the right hand side. Damp Pierre
1:19:48
goes under center. Now a time out taken by cal Poly.
1:19:53
Speaker 7: Cow Poly talls their last time out of the half.
1:19:56
Speaker 2: Forty seconds and it's one of those. All right, let's
1:19:59
see what they come out in in what formation, what
1:20:01
they're gonna do, and then we go all right, and
1:20:03
so now does Utah stick with that formation? Do they
1:20:06
change up here? You know, you kind of you can
1:20:09
guess yourself all the time.
1:20:10
Speaker 1: My other question for you, if you're Kyle Winningham, if
1:20:13
you do get stopped here, do you go for it
1:20:16
on fourth down?
1:20:17
Speaker 2: I think it depends on where you I I.
1:20:20
Speaker 3: Like you hit the two or the one yard line.
1:20:22
Speaker 2: I liked I like the pressure of this, you know
1:20:25
where it's like yeah, but you know, go for it.
1:20:28
The other the other, you know, thought process is you've stole.
1:20:32
You stole a series. You know you're ahead on because
1:20:36
you got an extra series here because you did a
1:20:38
nice job with clock management, all right, So it was
1:20:41
getting some points might be a better, better thing.
1:20:44
Speaker 1: They split few, Cannon and Davis wide to the left
1:20:47
hand side, the big boys up front right now damp
1:20:50
here in the gun, Roger's next to him. Third down
1:20:53
and goal for the two yard line, fifteen seconds to
1:20:55
go before halftime.
1:20:57
Speaker 3: Devin takes the snap and he rolls to his right
1:20:59
hand side.
1:20:59
Speaker 1: He's gonna himself and he is going to be stacked
1:21:02
up at the one yard line. He does not get
1:21:04
in and they'll take a time out with eight seconds
1:21:06
to play. He waited just a second too long because
1:21:10
Hunter Andrews made a nice block, but he didn't hit
1:21:12
that whole quite suit enough.
1:21:13
Speaker 2: Scott. No, it's almost like he was looking for like
1:21:16
it was and just you know, the one thing about
1:21:21
Devin is he doesn't He's not a stout guy, you know,
1:21:23
so he's not gonna get you know, He's a little
1:21:25
dude and when you got to kind of stick it
1:21:28
in there, doesn't have the girth.
1:21:31
Speaker 1: He's five eleven at about two oh five. He's felt
1:21:33
more like a running back than he is necessarily a quarterback. Right, So,
1:21:38
fourth and goal at the one yard line here for Utah,
1:21:41
I don't think they're gonna kick a field goal.
1:21:42
Speaker 3: I think they're keeping the.
1:21:43
Speaker 1: Offense out there to try to put this one in
1:21:45
the end zone before halftimes.
1:21:47
Speaker 2: See, if I'm in that situation, I'd rather him run
1:21:49
to where everybody is.
1:21:51
Speaker 3: You know.
1:21:52
Speaker 2: It felt like it was a little bit of a
1:21:54
misdirection there, and cal Pauly's very disciplined to stay home.
1:22:00
Speaker 3: Dampierre Rogers, the big man Telonga as they line up
1:22:08
in a power formation, Devin turns and gives it to
1:22:10
Rogers n carry pushing toward the end zone. Is he in?
1:22:13
Speaker 5: He is?
1:22:14
Speaker 3: Touchdown.
1:22:17
Speaker 1: Second effort by Rogers gets him in as he followed
1:22:20
the beef in front of him to pay dirts touchdown
1:22:24
Utah with three seconds to play before halftimes.
1:22:27
Speaker 2: And I just really like that, you know where he's
1:22:28
just saying, we're gonna put more people here than you
1:22:31
can stop, and we're gonna score. And then just a
1:22:33
great effort by everyone there.
1:22:35
Speaker 1: That touchdown of Pepsi touchdown, fifth touchdown of the first
1:22:40
half for Utah, pat away from going up thirty five
1:22:43
to six with three seconds to play, six plays thirty
1:22:47
yards thirty six seconds off the game clock on that
1:22:51
scoring drive for Utah, dealing Curtis on to attempt the pat.
1:22:58
Speaker 8: I really want to fill the touchdown to his play
1:23:00
is on.
1:23:00
Speaker 3: The review our first review we go of twenty twenty five.
1:23:05
Speaker 2: There we go. You know it's in. Uh just depends
1:23:10
on how many cameras they have at this game.
1:23:12
Speaker 1: That's an ESPN Plus broadcast. It's not as many as
1:23:16
you would have for a Fox or an ESPN or
1:23:18
an ABC, But there's a fair number and I'm gonna
1:23:21
bet they have a pretty good look.
1:23:22
Speaker 3: At this, and.
1:23:24
Speaker 2: Well that official was pretty definitive on that side.
1:23:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, fartside pylon.
1:23:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you must have seen something there.
1:23:33
Speaker 1: Second effort and he doesn't go down. He's on a body.
1:23:38
That was not a great look.
1:23:40
Speaker 6: No.
1:23:41
Speaker 2: Like I said, there's not that many cameras.
1:23:45
Speaker 1: So if it stands, it's thirty four to six and
1:23:48
then a pah coming up. We'll have the America First
1:23:50
Credit Union halftime show coming up. Scott and I go
1:23:53
over numbers. Kind of from that view, you can't. I mean,
1:23:59
it's called a touchdown on the field. You're going to
1:24:01
have to have some sort of different nothing. Nothing that
1:24:04
looked that we just saw. I was going to tell
1:24:05
you nothing.
1:24:05
Speaker 2: In this one either.
1:24:06
Speaker 1: I mean even to look down the line from the
1:24:09
other side and it was the guy on the other
1:24:11
side that signal touchdown.
1:24:12
Speaker 2: He was right there.
1:24:16
Speaker 1: I would be very surprised if this play is overturned.
1:24:18
Here's our referee.
1:24:23
Speaker 8: After review, the ruling on the field of a touchdown
1:24:26
is upheld.
1:24:29
Speaker 1: You notice they don't say confirmed anymore. They just say
1:24:32
they uphold the call that's on the field.
1:24:37
Speaker 2: Well, and there's a blessing for not having more cameras.
1:24:41
Speaker 3: Did you think you didn't get in Well, no, I
1:24:43
think he.
1:24:43
Speaker 2: Did because I just looked at that official and he
1:24:46
was very he saw something very clearly. So and he's
1:24:49
right there. He's got a better view than anyone.
1:24:51
Speaker 1: So touchdown brought to you by a friend's at PEPSI
1:24:56
great soft drink partner at the University of utaih Athletics
1:24:58
dealing Curtis. I've been good, perfect five for five today
1:25:04
for Curtis three seconds before halftime.
1:25:08
Speaker 3: At Utah leads at thirty five to three.
1:25:12
Speaker 2: You know, it feels like Curtis is getting a little
1:25:13
bit more and more confidence the more he's kicking and
1:25:17
just you know, nice fluid motion, getting a lot of
1:25:21
pop on the ball, a lot of height on his pats.
1:25:24
You know, he's kicking with some confidence. And that's the
1:25:29
big you know, how does how does a true freshman
1:25:32
act in game situations? And it just seems after that
1:25:35
first pat at UCLA that he's really starting to get
1:25:38
more and more comfortable.
1:25:40
Speaker 3: By the way, I've got a special guest to the
1:25:41
two special guests of.
1:25:42
Speaker 2: The booth tonight. Full up, folks.
1:25:44
Speaker 1: I know we've got my dad who's usually listening from Olatea,
1:25:48
Kansas to all hours of the night. He's in the
1:25:50
booth with us tonight and Austin Harlot future Bright. He's
1:25:54
coming from my job, Scott Hey, he's coming for my job,
1:25:58
and he knows you have to fight me for that.
1:26:01
Speaker 3: Austin Austin future broadcaster.
1:26:03
Speaker 1: A proud Judge Memorial High School student soon to be
1:26:06
studying broadcasting at a university near you next year if
1:26:10
he gets in.
1:26:13
Speaker 3: That's what he told me earlier. Here's Dylan Curtis.
1:26:16
Speaker 1: Little squibkick on the ground, pops up at about the
1:26:18
twenty yard line, out to the twenty five, out to
1:26:21
the thirty thirty five thirty seven, and that will take
1:26:25
us to halftime here at Receycle Stadium, after thirty minutes
1:26:28
of football on a Saturday afternoon, the sky's clear and
1:26:31
Utah puts up points on the scoreboard. It's Utah thirty
1:26:35
five and cal Poly six. I'm gonna hear from Kyle
1:26:39
Whittingham momentarily. He's oh, we've got an injured player right
1:26:43
now for cal poul Loost like Jake East the boundary.
1:26:51
Safety's heard, but sitting up now, slides downstairs and he'll
1:26:57
catch up right now with the head coach, go ahead, slip.
1:27:01
Speaker 4: Side coach off the first half thirty five I was
1:27:04
looking for reporting forty times telling that was on my parlay.
1:27:08
But offensive explosion getting help from the defense and special teams.
1:27:11
What was the offensive philosophy going into this first half?
1:27:14
Speaker 9: We'll just more of the same from last week. Good execution,
1:27:16
playing clean. Not quite as sharp this week as we
1:27:19
were last week. Got bogged down on a few drives,
1:27:22
but unfortunately the defense scored a touchdown and essentially scored
1:27:25
the second one. Set it up right down there in
1:27:27
the positive territory. So a lot of good things, but
1:27:30
just not getting into a full rhythm offensively yet.
1:27:33
Speaker 4: What adjustments are you going to make defensively to make
1:27:35
sure they stay out of the end zone and continue
1:27:38
to pitch you shut out?
1:27:38
Speaker 9: No real adjustments, just the quarterback run game. You know,
1:27:41
when they put number one in there, that became a
1:27:43
viable option form. So we don't know who we'll see
1:27:45
in the second half, but it was the big guy
1:27:47
we expect more throw it was Number one.
1:27:49
Speaker 2: More kV run game, thanks coach.
1:27:52
Speaker 3: So I Kyle, thank you very much.
1:27:54
Speaker 1: At sideline update brought to you by Ken Garth, we
1:27:56
hear you. It's halftime here at re Sekle Stadium, home
1:27:59
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here in a couple of minutes. So you've got thirty
1:28:31
five on the board. You're in control of this game.
1:28:34
I would be surprised if we see Devin damp Pier
1:28:37
here in the second half. Maybe a series, but what
1:28:39
do you want to get done right now? If you're Utah,
1:28:41
especially if you're going to begin playing some of the
1:28:43
twos and threes, well, if you're.
1:28:44
Speaker 2: Playing the twos and threes, you certainly want to give
1:28:46
them good opportunities to, you know, get some experience, and
1:28:51
that's a good thing. I would expect that Utah is
1:28:54
going to try to shorten the game by running it
1:28:56
a lot more. Didn't run it a lot in the
1:28:58
first half. Really felt like they were trying to get
1:29:00
Devin comfortable throwing the football and also kind of developing
1:29:04
some other guys like Nate Johnson, Hunter Andrews, and so
1:29:08
I just I expect the team to kind of soften
1:29:11
it up a little bit. I don't want to say soften,
1:29:14
but just probably be a lot more run heavy than
1:29:16
they were in the first half.
1:29:19
Speaker 3: Utah dominated on the stat sheet. We'll see what they're
1:29:21
able to do.
1:29:22
Speaker 1: As we come out here in the second half, our
1:29:24
second half, in our game today being brought to you
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by Smith, the official grocer University of Utah Football. Smith
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is proud to support Utah football in the community. Smith
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is fresh for everyone. Kyle Poly will have the ball
1:29:36
to begin things here in the second half. They want
1:29:39
the toss to begin things and deferred by the way.
1:29:42
Next week we'll be on the road in Laramie, Wyoming.
1:29:45
I wasn't sure we would ever be back in Laramie,
1:29:47
Wyoming again, But here we are heading back to the
1:29:50
old whack in Mountain West stomping ground, Scott.
1:29:52
Speaker 2: Well, Laramie's a place that you want to visit once
1:29:54
in your lifetime. And that's about it. And then you
1:29:58
know it's going to be a good game to I
1:30:00
kind of really maintain focus and having to go on
1:30:03
the road again is always always good. But it's a
1:30:05
short flight and a close trip and there are gonna
1:30:08
be things from this game that Utah is going to learn.
1:30:10
The defensive secondary got some looks they haven't seen yet
1:30:14
this year, and so to see if the final tune up,
1:30:17
can you clean up some of the mistakes this week
1:30:19
so you go into your conference play just really on
1:30:23
all cylinders. That's what next week's all about.
1:30:26
Speaker 1: Of course, conference opener is two weeks from today right
1:30:29
here at Rice ecles As, Utah will take on the
1:30:35
Texas Tech Red Raiders, well of the preseason favorites at
1:30:40
the Big Twelve. By the way, Kansas lost for the
1:30:44
first time today, the Big Twelve beaten by long time
1:30:48
rival out of the SEC, Missouri in Columbia. So the
1:30:51
Jayhawks have their first loss. So Dylan Curnis has a
1:30:54
teet up at his own thirty five. He'll kick south
1:30:55
to north. Trey Wilson back deep to receive this kick,
1:30:58
but he'll have no return because this kick goes out
1:31:01
of the end zone and nearly takes out a cheerleader
1:31:04
running along the far wall of the north end zone.
1:31:06
First and ten for cal Pauly coming out to their
1:31:08
own twenty five yard line. Now, will we see the
1:31:11
big guy, the passing quarterback, Tye Deepenbach, or will we
1:31:15
see the running guy Anthony Grigsby, Or maybe we'll see
1:31:17
a combination of boath We'll see.
1:31:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe they've done it by quarter who knows, But
1:31:22
I think Risbee is still going to be the guy,
1:31:25
just a little bit more dynamic than.
1:31:27
Speaker 3: Jackslyn gonna be one.
1:31:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna see Jackson Atkins, the third string quarterback.
1:31:32
Speaker 3: Jackson Atkins is gonna come in.
1:31:34
Speaker 2: Here, you know. And you could argue that it's an
1:31:37
opportunity for cal Poly to get some guys some experience
1:31:39
as well.
1:31:41
Speaker 1: First and ten from the twenty five yard line, Atkins
1:31:43
getting his first experience. He's gonna keep it himself right
1:31:46
up the middle. He's gonna run it thirty and down
1:31:48
to the thirty two yard line for a game of
1:31:50
seven yards.
1:31:50
Speaker 3: John to Hall made the tackle.
1:31:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you have to wonder how many guys that
1:31:54
are regular starters are in there. You know, you got
1:31:57
Lander in there and got Nate Ritchie John o'hall. It
1:32:00
looks like Yutas still has its starting defense in the
1:32:03
In the game.
1:32:04
Speaker 1: Tyry Washington in the backfield second down in three, got
1:32:09
to get to the thirty five for a first down.
1:32:11
Atkins gonna come up and change the play at the
1:32:12
line of scrimmage. Three receivers left, one of the right
1:32:15
hand side. You tell the four man down front, Atkins
1:32:20
gonna passed this time blitz coming in his face, throws
1:32:22
behind his receiver incomplete. The pass was deflected at the
1:32:25
line of scrimmage. On the blitz. They were trying to
1:32:28
squeeze that ball into Brisco incomplete. It goes and that'll
1:32:32
bring up third down. Yeah, and that was that was
1:32:36
a blitz.
1:32:37
Speaker 2: But they dropped the end to cover the back out
1:32:39
of the backfield and did a really nice a really
1:32:42
really nice job of actually Cash Dillon heads up by him.
1:32:49
Speaker 1: Mustangs two out of seven on third down, got to
1:32:51
get three yards to the thirty five Atkins out of
1:32:54
the shotgun with four wide receivers, he's going to pass
1:32:57
four man rush flag flies outside complete. But this one
1:33:01
might go against Utah. It's right in that area. Oh no,
1:33:04
that's going to be an illegal shift against cal Poly
1:33:07
and Utah is gonna be fortunate here and get off
1:33:09
the field.
1:33:10
Speaker 2: Well, I think the receiver in motion kind I was
1:33:12
leaning a little forward. He was running like you know
1:33:15
the Canadian aid football ROLEZ loves that stuff. That guy
1:33:18
is a freak for Canadian football. My spot of Matt Robless.
1:33:21
Speaker 3: Here's a referee.
1:33:24
Speaker 8: Offense that bills the climb rings out.
1:33:26
Speaker 3: Fourth down, so they turned it down.
1:33:30
Speaker 1: The pass was wide to the receiver anyway, and Atkins
1:33:34
tratsaw trots off the field.
1:33:35
Speaker 3: They were trying to get at to Brisco again.
1:33:37
Speaker 1: Punt team comes out for cal Poly and boy Rayshawn Glover,
1:33:40
who really set Utah up in great shape with that
1:33:42
fifty one yard punt returned at the end of the half,
1:33:46
steps back at his own thirty yard line.
1:33:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of similar field position here and kick it
1:33:52
too far. You get a really nice chance for a return.
1:33:56
Speaker 1: Jesse Earlick, the Australian putter on lefty. Keep an eye
1:34:00
out for a fake here. Nothing to lose here if
1:34:02
you're cal Polyly takes the snap, kicks it end over end.
1:34:05
Glover's gonna drift back and take it at about his
1:34:07
twenty three He's going to go to the opposite side.
1:34:09
Now up the field, Ray Shawn Glover spins out of
1:34:12
one tackle, but not the other. He'll be taken down
1:34:15
at about the twenty nine yard line. He did a
1:34:17
good job getting back up the field that time tackle
1:34:20
on the play by Braydon Breedlove.
1:34:22
Speaker 3: Now Utah will take.
1:34:23
Speaker 1: Over first and ten, forty five yard punts, six yard
1:34:26
return and Utah begins at their own thirty yard line
1:34:28
debit Dan Peer back after at least one more series
1:34:31
here at the ballgame first and ten, but a seventy
1:34:32
yard field in front of him.
1:34:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, I think these coaches want to make
1:34:36
sure this offense stays in good rhythm here and good
1:34:40
to come out in the half and have to come
1:34:42
out and play again after going in at halftime.
1:34:44
Speaker 1: Four man down front five of the line of scrimmage
1:34:46
here for cal Poly, they handed off the way Sean
1:34:48
Parker picks to the outside but loses almost five yards
1:34:52
back to the twenty five yard line. Boston Wilson, the
1:34:54
corner came out of edge blitz and blew that play
1:34:57
up for a five yard loss.
1:34:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the few times is offensive line is
1:35:00
actually lost, you know, and then just didn't clean up
1:35:03
very well there, and because they're so good at running
1:35:06
north south and that just that just play just didn't
1:35:09
develop like it should.
1:35:10
Speaker 1: I had a lot of traffic out there on that
1:35:11
right hand side, couldn't get through the wash. Second down
1:35:14
in fifteen damp Pierre get a backpedal to pass pressure
1:35:17
in his face.
1:35:18
Speaker 3: Gonna step up and run with it.
1:35:19
Speaker 1: Devin to the outside, thirty Devin to the outside thirty five,
1:35:22
turns up the field, tripped up and taken down right
1:35:26
near first down yardage.
1:35:27
Speaker 3: They're gonna mark him out at the thirty nine.
1:35:29
Speaker 1: Mikey Tomato, the linebacker forced him out of bounds. He
1:35:33
needed to get to the forty so to be third
1:35:35
down in about a yard here for Utah. Good run
1:35:37
by damp Pierre.
1:35:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's elusive there because he doesn't look like he's
1:35:41
running very very fast. Actually looked like he got the
1:35:43
first down here. I don't know if it's a great
1:35:45
spot here, but he just almost gets around that edge
1:35:48
right there.
1:35:48
Speaker 3: He looked like I thought he got it too.
1:35:50
Speaker 1: When you take a look at that, Letter Andrews the
1:35:52
Wildcat back, he's playing quarterback. He brings damp here in motion.
1:35:56
Letter's gonna keep it himself. He'll pick his way forward
1:35:58
to the forty five. Hunter Andrew's taken down after a
1:36:01
five yard game, they'll mark keep it the forty four.
1:36:04
Keeddy Olson, the will linebacker, made the tackle. I like
1:36:06
Hunter Andrews man.
1:36:07
Speaker 2: Well, he's so versatile, and there's this you can use
1:36:09
him in so many ways, and to have the confidence
1:36:11
to put him in the backfield and run a ball
1:36:13
like that. If he hits that play a little bit quicker,
1:36:15
he just kind of waits this a little bit and
1:36:17
he gets kind of caught up there. He might he
1:36:19
might miss that linebacker from the inside and have a
1:36:21
huge explosive play.
1:36:23
Speaker 1: U Tell may take a shot here, Damn Pierre. Nope,
1:36:25
he's gonna hand it off instead the Rogers and the carry.
1:36:27
Rogers picks up five almost six yards out near.
1:36:30
Speaker 3: Midfield to the fifty yard line.
1:36:32
Speaker 1: Well, they had man coverage to the outside with Larry Simmons.
1:36:35
Speaker 2: I thought they might go play action. Yeah, Nick carry Man,
1:36:37
he's just running a ball so hard. He's such a
1:36:39
good north south runner.
1:36:41
Speaker 1: Second down in four from midfield, they gotta give it
1:36:44
to Rodgers again, sticks his nose up in that hole
1:36:47
and takes it down to the forty six right at
1:36:49
the sticks. They gonna move the chains. That'll be a
1:36:51
first down. Ulson with the tackle again for cal Polling.
1:36:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's that's a sign of confidence when we
1:36:59
just go for whatever reason, it seems like Utah is
1:37:01
running ball on the right side of their offensive line
1:37:03
a lot today.
1:37:04
Speaker 3: Well, I mean a guy named Spencer Fono's I get it.
1:37:07
Speaker 2: And it's it's certainly effective because they're just they're just saying,
1:37:10
our guys are better than your guys, and try to
1:37:12
stop us.
1:37:13
Speaker 1: We'll see if they take a shot on this. Hudder Andrews,
1:37:15
the Wildcat quarterback, again, thinks about bringing Rodgers in motion,
1:37:20
Gonna keep it himself straight ahead.
1:37:22
Speaker 3: Their dives forward.
1:37:24
Speaker 1: It picks up three almost four yards to the forty
1:37:27
two yard line. I'm not sure that Kerry Rodgers knew
1:37:30
exactly what was going on. He went to go in
1:37:32
motion and then just kind of turned his body and stopped.
1:37:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hunter, you know, wondering what the counter off of this?
1:37:39
Will he have the ability to throw it. I mean,
1:37:41
there's there's a lot there for him to run, and
1:37:44
you know, maybe they have some some looks that they'll
1:37:46
they'll they'll develop off of this wildcat.
1:37:49
Speaker 1: Nate Johnson to the ball game, next to Devin damp
1:37:51
Here on second down at six for the cal Poly
1:37:54
forty two. Now they flex him out wide to the
1:37:56
right hand side. Nate Johnson, Now bring him in motion.
1:37:59
Damp Pier playoff action pass. Taking a look down the field.
1:38:02
He's got Ryan Davis makes a leap being catching the
1:38:04
twenty five and down to the cow Poly fifteen yard line.
1:38:09
Speaker 5: That pass was high.
1:38:10
Speaker 1: Davis went up to grab it and caught it in
1:38:12
stride for a big gain of twenty seven yards.
1:38:15
Speaker 2: Well, you want to get chunk plays. Run the football
1:38:17
and you know, Utah pound pound, run, run and then
1:38:19
play action boom. Hit a nice big gain right.
1:38:21
Speaker 1: There inside the Canyon View Credit Union red zone. Again,
1:38:25
Nate Johnson motions out. They throw a pop pass over
1:38:28
the middle. It's up and caught by the tight end
1:38:31
actually the h back Hunter Andrews with a nice catch
1:38:34
at the gain of about four yards down to the
1:38:36
eleven yard line.
1:38:37
Speaker 2: One of the things Devin's done a nice job are
1:38:40
those really quick hitting throws right over the middle. Those
1:38:42
aren't easy to do because you got to catch the
1:38:44
ball and throw it, and you got to throw it accurately,
1:38:46
and he's made some really nice rows.
1:38:48
Speaker 1: Damp pier with Andrews next to him in the backfield.
1:38:50
They'll bring Nate Johnson in motion. They're gonna hand to
1:38:52
the Nate Johnson out on the right hand side. Nate
1:38:54
cutting inside and gets back to the line of scrimmage,
1:38:57
and that's it. Mikey Tomato did a nice job of
1:38:59
turning it back inside making the tackle. Third down coming
1:39:02
up here for Utah, third down and six.
1:39:05
Speaker 2: Knight's gotta feel this and just feel like everything's to
1:39:07
the outside, because if he cuts up earlier, the defense
1:39:09
hadn't quite got there and he's gonna get something positive.
1:39:13
Just a little too long to make that cut up field.
1:39:19
Speaker 1: Two receivers, two tight ends and way Sean Parker of
1:39:22
the formation for Utah on third and six. Damp ear
1:39:25
play action, Devin throwing toward the corner.
1:39:27
Speaker 5: Up and cut touchdown.
1:39:32
Speaker 2: Dallan Bentley at the parlor, gotta foot down.
1:39:36
Speaker 5: Tracked it for six.
1:39:38
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. That's an incredible play by Dallan
1:39:41
and just a concentration on that and to throw by
1:39:44
Dan Pierr. He's just retreating and it's a zero blitz
1:39:47
and he's just trying to buy a little time, a
1:39:49
little time and then he puts some air on it.
1:39:51
He can get some more time and then just puts
1:39:53
it on a dime. I mean, it's just a beautiful
1:39:55
touchdown pass.
1:39:56
Speaker 1: That was a nice throw and a really nice catch
1:39:59
right there. A hepsy touchdown for Utah. Dallan Bentley's got
1:40:02
a second touchdown of the year.
1:40:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's he's another one of those players. It's
1:40:06
you know, he makes plays and then that's what you
1:40:08
want to see in a tough situation. Can a guy
1:40:10
make a catch for you? And the answer is yes
1:40:13
with Dallan Bentley.
1:40:14
Speaker 1: Dat up and good by Dylan Curtis. Dallan Bentley catches
1:40:18
that one an eleven yard touchdown pass from Devin damp Pierre,
1:40:21
who's got his third touchdown pass of the afternoon.
1:40:24
Speaker 3: For Utah.
1:40:25
Speaker 1: Dam Pierre goes three for three for forty two yards
1:40:28
and a touchdown on the drive and the drive summary
1:40:30
ten plays seventy yards and four point fifteen off the
1:40:33
game plot and with nine forty eight to play here
1:40:36
at the third at Utah forty two and cal Poly six,
1:40:39
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Slash Ughtes, Bill Riley, Scott, Mitchell Stevens and Sylvester from
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rysecl Stadium, Utah forty two, cal Poly six. After that
1:41:18
last scoring drive, Trey Wilson back to receive the kick
1:41:20
from Dylan Curtis ninety eight to play here in the
1:41:25
third for Utah. My guess would be we begin to
1:41:28
see some of the twos and threes probably make their
1:41:31
way to the field here very soon on offense and
1:41:34
defense for Utah. But we'll see how Kyle winning Have
1:41:36
decides to play it here this afternoon. Curtis's kick is high,
1:41:40
it's end over end and not returnable for Trey Wilson,
1:41:44
as again it goes out the back of the end zone.
1:41:45
I talked to Jake Cookis, the special teams coach for Utah.
1:41:49
I said, you're gonna see some kicks going out of
1:41:51
the end zone. We went a couple of years without
1:41:53
seeing a lot of kicks go out of the end zone.
1:41:54
Dylan Curtis has been pretty good the first two weeks.
1:41:58
Speaker 2: It does not hurt my feeling at all. It's like
1:42:01
it's a thing of beauty. Just eliminates one of those uncertainties.
1:42:06
Less touches they get, less opportunities they have to try
1:42:09
to make a score, the better off you're going to be.
1:42:11
Speaker 1: Starter's still out there for Utah on defense though Atkins
1:42:17
in at quarterback. He's the third quarterback we've seen today
1:42:19
from cal Poly, joined to the backfield by holy Field
1:42:22
on first down and ten. Now they motioned the back out.
1:42:24
Atkins gonna pass into the flat to holy Field. Got
1:42:27
a man out there, tackles him in the open field.
1:42:29
Speaker 3: That's Smith Snowden.
1:42:30
Speaker 1: After a very short game for holy Field, a gain
1:42:32
of about almost three to the twenty eight yard line.
1:42:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, good discipline there, you know, not getting sucked in
1:42:39
by the route and just good discipline in a good
1:42:41
tackle there in open field.
1:42:43
Speaker 1: And the sideline's your best friend over there too, certainly
1:42:46
helps you with that tackle. A little bit of an
1:42:48
offset here with a tight end of the right slot
1:42:50
tail back of the backfield. On second down and seven,
1:42:53
low snap, Atkins is gonna roll to his right throw
1:42:55
out in the flat behind a receiver who's immediately belted down.
1:42:59
That's Nate rich She's there. Trey Reynolds is there as well.
1:43:04
Salahi there, keyon Salahi. After a short Grant run, we'll
1:43:09
bring up third down at about six.
1:43:12
Speaker 2: And this Utah defense really shows the ability to have
1:43:17
that lateral speed, you know, and you need that in
1:43:19
this conference. You've got to be able to close the
1:43:21
gap on those open field plays.
1:43:23
Speaker 1: Mustangs two for eight on third down, zero for one
1:43:26
miss half, got to get almost seven out to the
1:43:29
thirty five yard line Atkins in the gun, Utah showing pressure.
1:43:36
Now they'll check with the sideline play clock at two,
1:43:39
play clock at one, they're going to take a time out.
1:43:44
Utah showed a little something right there and that threw
1:43:46
that off a little bit. Thirty seconds thirty second time out,
1:43:49
So we'll keep it right here. Eight thirty four to
1:43:51
play here the third quarter forty two to two six
1:43:53
in favor of Utah. Chance to get the Mustangs off
1:43:57
the field again. Get that offense back on there again
1:44:00
for Utah next week, six o'clock kickoff from War Memorial
1:44:04
Stadium in Laramie.
1:44:06
Speaker 3: Cowboys on a bye week.
1:44:08
Speaker 1: It would stink to have a week two bye week,
1:44:10
wouldn't it.
1:44:11
Speaker 2: It would especially in late October early November when you're
1:44:15
banged up from going through all your camp for a
1:44:17
month and two or three months of the season and
1:44:20
now you've just kind of blown it early in the season. Yeah,
1:44:22
it's a tough one, by the way.
1:44:24
Speaker 1: Big upset today in college football down in the South
1:44:27
University of South Florida, the Bulls take down the Florida
1:44:31
Gators today. Is that game in Tampa or in Gainesville. Gainesville.
1:44:37
Speaker 3: Wow, oh, those people are going nuts. They went in
1:44:40
the swamp and beat the Gators today.
1:44:43
Speaker 1: Third down, it's almost seven here Atkins with holy Field
1:44:47
at the backfield, four wide receivers in the pattern. He'll
1:44:50
pass pressure up the middle. He's gonna go down. The
1:44:54
quarterback goes down, and he goes down hard. John Henry
1:44:57
Daily with the sack for Utah. He had two a
1:45:01
week ago. He's got one here today. And the Utah
1:45:04
defense makes the stand again here early in the third.
1:45:07
Speaker 2: Well, John Henry, just, I mean, he's just got such
1:45:10
a motor and you just see it that play after
1:45:13
play after play, you hold that ball for any amount
1:45:16
of time, you can expect him to get to the field.
1:45:18
He might be a guy emerging as that definitive end
1:45:23
on the field for Utah.
1:45:25
Speaker 1: Cash Dylan's been really good too for Utah. Give it
1:45:28
Logan foto a little bit of a break today. Here's
1:45:31
the punt. It's away and they're kicking it away and
1:45:34
out of bounds. Goodness gracious. It was caught by griggsby
1:45:38
the quarterback I think on the sideline there, or it
1:45:41
might have been Jeremiah Bernard.
1:45:42
Speaker 3: The safety.
1:45:43
Speaker 1: But that was a terrible punt by Erlick, got a
1:45:48
time out on the field, twenty eight yard punt, no return.
1:45:50
Utah will have it first and tent right at midfield
1:45:52
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the way, Devin dan Pier's final numbers, pretty good day today.
1:46:20
Seventeen of twenty three, one hundred and ninety two yards,
1:46:22
three touchdowns, four carries, twenty five yards.
1:46:26
Speaker 2: And that last play was just a beautiful throw.
1:46:30
Speaker 1: First down, handoff, that's gonna be way Sean Parker and
1:46:33
he's through the hole and down to about the forty
1:46:35
three yard line for a game of seven on first down.
1:46:38
Speaker 3: Now might be that.
1:46:39
Speaker 1: Time where you start to kind of grind it out
1:46:41
with that Utah offensive line.
1:46:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is good for Bert Fickland. You know,
1:46:44
he's a young kid, true freshman, get in the game
1:46:47
when it's you know, there's not a lot of pressure,
1:46:49
you know, and so it'll it'll be a great opportunity
1:46:52
for him to see the Reds make some throws, make
1:46:55
some runs.
1:46:58
Speaker 1: Pick one with another hand off, this one through the hole.
1:47:01
Here he goes twenty ten to five touchdown way Sean
1:47:06
Parker forty three yards right up the gun for a
1:47:10
Utah touchdown, his second touchdown today. He's got a rushing
1:47:14
touchdown to go with his receiving touchdown.
1:47:17
Speaker 3: And that was a.
1:47:18
Speaker 1: Big time chunk playing a big old hole for Parker.
1:47:21
Speaker 3: To run through.
1:47:23
Speaker 2: I love these running backs for Utah Ni Carry and
1:47:27
w Shawn, I really do, because they've run so hard
1:47:30
and that's what and I'd just like to see it
1:47:32
get paid off. And that was a definite payoffer. As
1:47:35
hard as they've run today, you just know eventually they're
1:47:37
gonna pop one for a big play, and they did.
1:47:40
Speaker 1: Pat coming up here for Dylan Curtis, puts it up,
1:47:46
puts it through two plays fifty yards and a forty
1:47:49
three yard touchdown run for Way Sean Parker makes it
1:47:52
forty nine to six, took all of thirty six seconds
1:47:56
off the clock. Seven twelve remains here in the third quarter,
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Speaker 3: Time out of the field.
1:48:04
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1:48:09
Speaker 3: Oh, we had all kinds of excitement here.
1:48:11
Speaker 1: Way, Shawn Parker just went forty three yards for a touchdown,
1:48:14
and we just had a young woman kick a field
1:48:16
goal from thirty yards away. And everybody gets a free
1:48:18
haircut from Great Cliffs Now. Then on game day this morning,
1:48:21
Pat McAfee gave some kid two undred thousand dollars for
1:48:25
not going to kick through everybody's hat.
1:48:26
Speaker 3: Coming up, where's ours at, Scott.
1:48:29
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, we got some free cookies today,
1:48:31
quite a few of those, and the catering folks brought
1:48:35
us some food. I mean that was pretty nice.
1:48:36
Speaker 3: Yeah.
1:48:37
Speaker 1: By the way, Wyshawn Parker six carries fifty yards in
1:48:39
a touchdown, one reception fifty two yards at a touchdown.
1:48:43
Once again this week they're spreading the wealth around, Yeah,
1:48:46
Dallan Bentley with a touchdown, Ryan Davis with a touchdown,
1:48:49
was Shawn Parker with a touchdown. Two touchdowns, the Carrie
1:48:52
Rodgers with a touchdown.
1:48:54
Speaker 2: And if everyone's okay with this, No one's going to
1:48:58
be a superstar, but you're going to be a very
1:49:00
potent offense. If everyone can subdue their ego and say
1:49:03
that's okay, then this could be fun year for the Utes.
1:49:06
Speaker 1: Dylan Curtis kicks it through the end zone and Ada
1:49:12
goes for a touchback. How about these drives six to
1:49:15
seventy five for seventy five in a touchdown, pick six
1:49:18
twelve for sixty five in a touchdown. Six plays or
1:49:22
one play one yard in a touchdown, six plays three
1:49:24
yards in a touchdown, ten plays seventy yards and a touchdown.
1:49:28
Speaker 3: Two plays fifty yards at a touchdown.
1:49:30
Speaker 1: Dave spatafod like a good accountant over here running these
1:49:34
numbers for us. Austin, what are you doing? You're doing anything?
1:49:38
You contributing to the team today? Austin first and ten
1:49:41
Griggsby back in the ball game here for Cal Pollock
1:49:45
turns and hands it to the tailback. Not much there, Letcher,
1:49:51
the tailback takes it for no game, maybe a one
1:49:54
yard lost to about the twenty four yard line.
1:49:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. I think the rest of this game,
1:49:58
probably for both sides of the ball, is like ball control,
1:50:01
a lot of run, high percentage stuff. Everyone is kind
1:50:05
of probably ready to move on to the next week
1:50:07
because you want to keep people helpy, keep people fresh.
1:50:10
But the guys that are out there playing and go,
1:50:12
I still want to play, and I'm gonna play hard,
1:50:14
and you're probably gonna see that from the Utah defense.
1:50:17
Speaker 1: Second down at eleven, Griggsby checked with the sideline. Now
1:50:19
he'll motion his back Fletcher out of the backfield. Empty
1:50:23
backfield for Griggsby. He's got a backpedal to pass, looks
1:50:25
out to his left, fires out to his left man
1:50:27
wide open there, and finally racked that of bounds. That's
1:50:30
Michael brisco in about the thirty one yard line. That'll
1:50:33
bring up third down and about three o the way
1:50:36
the cal Poly offense in the second half, three plays,
1:50:38
seven yards and a punt, three plays minus three yards
1:50:41
and a punts.
1:50:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, the defense really kind of made some adjustments and
1:50:48
made some good adjustments because they've really tightened things down
1:50:51
here and haven't given up a touchdown in this game,
1:50:54
which says a lot.
1:50:55
Speaker 1: They're two out of nine on third down of the
1:50:57
bus stangs third down and almost four griggs be in
1:51:01
the shotgun Utah showing pressure off the edge. Here they
1:51:04
come up the middle. They hit griggsby as he throws.
1:51:07
It's a flying duck and nearly intercepted incomplete. But we're
1:51:10
gonna have flags both in the backfield and also it's
1:51:14
gonna be pass interference on Utah in the secondary. Let's
1:51:16
see what the flag at the line of scrimmage is.
1:51:20
Utah has to hope right now it's off setting. It
1:51:23
could be off sides on Utah. Try to get a
1:51:25
little bit of a jump on that blitz. We'll see well.
1:51:28
Speaker 2: And the quarterback was hit when he threw it in
1:51:31
which caused the pass interference.
1:51:35
Speaker 8: Pass interference defense on the twenty one fifteen year authentity.
1:51:40
Speaker 6: Automatic first down. Also sideline running Utah.
1:51:46
Speaker 1: Okay, sideline warning on Utah. By the way, if it
1:51:52
was on twenty one, it was on Nate Tillman.
1:51:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was on Jackson Penny. But it
1:52:00
shouldn't have been at all. I mean, the quarterback's just
1:52:04
getting hit as he threw the ball. I don't know
1:52:06
twenty one is in the game. Yeah, it's State. Filman
1:52:10
must have called it at a different place because he
1:52:12
wasn't way back there.
1:52:15
Speaker 3: Fletcher of the ballgame.
1:52:16
Speaker 1: First and ten out of the forty six yard line,
1:52:18
griggs be in the shotgun. Three receivers of the right
1:52:20
hand side. He'll pass poor man rush for Utah coming
1:52:23
to him and do he goes. That was Paul Fitzgerald
1:52:30
who got him right there. Paul Fitzgerald, the transfer from
1:52:34
Utah States. Third sack of the day for the Utah defense.
1:52:38
They had four a week ago against UCLA.
1:52:40
Speaker 2: It's kind it's kind of a tough deal because this
1:52:42
is the second unit defensive line and they're not really
1:52:45
any different than the first unit. And again, it's such
1:52:50
a great discipline pass rush that gets it's that push
1:52:53
up front that really causes a lot of the problem
1:52:57
with those defensive tackles.
1:52:59
Speaker 3: Guess who's in the games, Scott.
1:53:01
Speaker 2: I know Poopoo's in and he was making a.
1:53:03
Speaker 1: Push second down at seventeen, backpedaling Grigsby. He'll step up
1:53:08
and try to run for yardage. He's got the forty five,
1:53:10
he's got the fifty, he's got the forty six and
1:53:13
down he goes in Utah territory, Paul Fitzgerald chasing him
1:53:17
down that time. Poop Poo was in the area as well.
1:53:20
And I'll bring up third down at about two. By
1:53:22
the way, Utah's got seven penalties now for sixty five
1:53:25
yards today.
1:53:27
Speaker 2: Well, now you got these young defensive lineman. Kafusi's in there, Cephalona,
1:53:31
Poop Poo's in there.
1:53:33
Speaker 1: And it's good third down at almost three here for
1:53:38
Griggsby and the Mustang offense. He's gonna change the play
1:53:43
for twenty five to play in clock running here in
1:53:45
the third forty nine to six Utah griggs be to
1:53:48
pass three step drop over the middle incomplete excellent work
1:53:52
from behind by rock Caldwell. He had the coverage on
1:53:57
the play and knocked it away. And I think they're
1:53:59
gonna keep the offense out there on fourth and three.
1:54:04
Speaker 2: I mean, one of the most exciting things I've seen here.
1:54:08
Speaker 1: Is this is the second unit and they're playing well
1:54:11
up front. Those guys up front. There's not been much
1:54:12
of a drop off hazard No.
1:54:13
Speaker 2: There has not at all. In some ways it looks
1:54:16
as good to no want to say better, but no
1:54:19
drop off at all.
1:54:21
Speaker 1: Punt team comes out here for cal Poly a little
1:54:23
surprised by this fourth and a long three from the
1:54:27
Utah forty seven.
1:54:30
Speaker 3: Erlick.
1:54:30
Speaker 1: The punter going to kick it straight away and try
1:54:33
and get it to check up. Glover is gonna drift
1:54:35
over and let it hit it to five. It does
1:54:37
check up, it'll be killed right inside the five near
1:54:40
the four yard line. Forty two yard punt, no return,
1:54:44
and the Utah offense will come out with four oh
1:54:46
nine to play here in the third quarter leading forty
1:54:49
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're a young guy, not a lot of experience.
1:55:09
This exciting time may not be exciting time for everyone else,
1:55:12
but if you're out there playing like I got in
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the game and this because there's nothing more exciting than
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getting out on that field and being able to play.
1:55:18
Speaker 1: Bert Pickland stays in at quarterback. You'll line up in
1:55:21
the shotgun from his own goal line, brings Nate Johnson
1:55:23
across the formation. Bird's gonna throw in the flat complete
1:55:27
fifteen twenty twenty five up. The sideline of trip being
1:55:30
and falling down is to carry Rodgers. There's a flag
1:55:33
on the play. It's in the Utah backfield. We'll see
1:55:36
who this is against. It's a nice game all the
1:55:39
way out to they're gonna market a thirty seven yard line.
1:55:41
The linesman's gonna come back and say it now he
1:55:43
didn't pick that football up. This one may be against
1:55:46
Utah State.
1:55:47
Speaker 3: But maybe not. Nope, Utah's walking backwards.
1:55:50
Speaker 2: I think it's the outside receiver picked off the defender.
1:55:54
They're gonna be offensive pass interference. And it looked like
1:56:03
a good, really good thrower.
1:56:05
Speaker 3: He got hit? Is he through ten?
1:56:06
Speaker 2: Huh? That's weird.
1:56:09
Speaker 8: There is no foul for a league polmation. The result
1:56:11
of the play as the first down.
1:56:13
Speaker 3: Oh so, all the way out to the thirty seven
1:56:15
yard line, it will go.
1:56:18
Speaker 1: That's a thirty two yard pass play. Bert Fickland, by
1:56:20
the way, got hit as he threw that ball. He
1:56:22
did a nice job getting it out to Rogers.
1:56:25
Speaker 2: Rogers had the turf monster bite him. He should have
1:56:27
gone a lot further with that one.
1:56:30
Speaker 3: Nate Johnson checks in the ball game.
1:56:31
Speaker 1: He's next to Bert Ficklin trio of wide receivers on
1:56:34
the right hand side. First down in ten Utah. Now
1:56:37
they motioned Nate Johnson out of the backfield bringing back
1:56:40
in again handed. To date, he's got the right side
1:56:43
forty into the open field and down at about the
1:56:45
forty two almost forty three yard line. He gave him
1:56:48
about five and a half of the play for Nate Johnson.
1:56:52
Speaker 2: And that's a nice play because the one he did
1:56:54
before he tried to get to the outside, and this
1:56:56
one someone got to him and said, you got a plant.
1:56:58
They're out there, boom, just plant, get a field. There
1:57:00
you go, and he makes, you know, a six yard game.
1:57:02
Speaker 1: I'm just going to tell you there's a pass play
1:57:04
coming at some point this year with Date Johnson. Bird
1:57:07
Pick One's gonna roll to his left here on second down,
1:57:09
throw in the flat, complete, nice throw and complete down
1:57:13
below to Ryot Davis at the forty five yard line
1:57:16
of cal Poly Boy Bird Fickland put it right on
1:57:19
the money.
1:57:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's nice they're giving him simple reads right,
1:57:22
you know. Just this is a big time throw though,
1:57:24
because it's a second level guy, and so many times
1:57:28
a quarterback on the run just doesn't throw it very accurately.
1:57:31
And that's a nice run. And then Bird they like
1:57:32
him throwing the football. He's he's got some skill.
1:57:36
Speaker 1: Picked up ten yards on the play way, Sean Parker
1:57:38
chicks in first and ten for the cal Poly forty
1:57:40
six yard line. Colederella go's in motion. Vickland's gonna keep
1:57:43
it himself here up the field. Actually that was Nate Johnson.
1:57:48
Nate playing the wildcat quarterback right there, picks up five
1:57:51
down to the forty one yard line.
1:57:52
Speaker 2: And Nate has that you know, I can throw the
1:57:55
football up his sleeve type of play there, and he's
1:58:00
really close to that one breaking too.
1:58:02
Speaker 1: Give before yard gain on first down, second down in
1:58:05
six Utah clock running at two twenty five to play
1:58:07
here in the third quarter, forty nine to six uots
1:58:10
two receivers left to right, one left and a tight
1:58:13
end of the near slot. Fickland checking with his play
1:58:17
sheet ten on the play clock way, Shawan Parker next
1:58:19
to it. Cal Poly shifting around up front now on
1:58:22
second down, Ficklenn throws it out in the flat.
1:58:25
Speaker 3: He zings it out there. It's complete Ryan Davis.
1:58:29
Speaker 1: Another big catch for Davis, picks up about three down
1:58:32
here about the forty you make it thirty eight yard line.
1:58:35
Speaker 3: Well, he's got a live arm. This bird day really does?
1:58:37
Speaker 2: I mean this thing is, this is all the way
1:58:39
across the field and he just flecks it out there
1:58:41
like it's no big deal. Looks like another lefty I
1:58:44
know of whos to flick the ball around here. I
1:58:47
don't know who that might be, Mark Brnell not oh here, here,
1:58:50
oh here, tight down man.
1:58:55
Speaker 1: Five for nine on third down, two for two on
1:58:57
this drive, third down and two. Bicklinn by himself, gonna
1:59:01
keep it himself right side, thirty five steps out of
1:59:04
a tackle, thirty twenty five, breaks another tackle.
1:59:07
Speaker 5: Ten bad touchdown.
1:59:10
Speaker 2: Bert Pickland Hi steppin' into the north end zone.
1:59:16
Speaker 5: Thirty eight yards for Bert Pickland.
1:59:20
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what that wasn't, Burt, That was free
1:59:22
bird flying down the field there. And did you see
1:59:26
that stiff arm Like it wasn't a it's like get
1:59:28
out of my way kind of that's like a Marshawn
1:59:30
Lynch kind of stiff arm right there. And wow, we
1:59:35
might have seen the future of Utah football right there
1:59:38
today because some really nice runs and some beautiful throws.
1:59:42
Speaker 1: Bird Fickland graduated early from high school, pat up and
1:59:46
good at seventeen years old, came in in the spring.
1:59:50
They loved him in the spring. He was up and
1:59:52
down in fall camp, but they love his potential. And
1:59:55
you see why. Right there, Bird Ficklan gave the Heisman
1:59:59
pose and then jumped into the end zone for a touchdown.
2:00:01
When I say the Heisman pose, I meet on the
2:00:03
stiff arm.
2:00:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he misses a tackle and then this
2:00:06
guy comes says, no, no, no, I'm not running out
2:00:08
of bounds, get out of my way.
2:00:11
Speaker 1: Wow, a touchdown of PEPSI toucheddot. How about this guy
2:00:14
six plays ninety five yards and Fickland three for three
2:00:18
for forty seven yards passing.
2:00:19
Speaker 3: On the drive.
2:00:20
Speaker 2: Well, and you think predominantly Utah is going to run
2:00:23
the football. But wow, Burt Fickland throwing ball was extremely
2:00:27
impressive right there. And it's a good job. You know,
2:00:31
they give him hYP percentage throws, you know where there's
2:00:34
not a lot of read involved and you gain some confidence.
2:00:38
But he came out slinging.
2:00:40
Speaker 1: It fifty six to six Utah with a minute in
2:00:44
twenty four seconds to play here at the third quarter.
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end zone again. Sly, you're on that sideline where we
2:01:08
saw bird Fickland run that ball into the end zone.
2:01:10
What was your impression of him on that drive and
2:01:12
that run?
2:01:13
Speaker 2: Was that not just amazing?
2:01:15
Speaker 4: You just saw the future of Utah football right there
2:01:17
right That's why I'm on the side of line, and
2:01:19
that's what everybody's coming up to me saying, that's the
2:01:22
future right there. That guy is an animal. You see
2:01:25
the way he stiffed the arm aggressiveness. You try to
2:01:27
tell everybody you don't just throw your arm out there.
2:01:29
Mean it when you throw your arm out there, And
2:01:30
that's what that was. But it's impressive. This first team
2:01:33
second we talked about in the pre game, this second
2:01:35
unit could start on a lot of universities. Great job
2:01:38
by this offense that putting on the points. Hopefully it's
2:01:41
my sixty three points, is what I guess.
2:01:44
Speaker 1: Man at twenty four to play that sideline update brought
2:01:47
to us by Ken Garth. We hear you, Anthony Grigsby
2:01:49
keeps it faked the option pitch and took it out
2:01:52
you about the twenty seven yard line for a gain
2:01:54
of two. Elijah Ellis, Luther Ellis just keeps creating his
2:01:58
wife just crank keep can have football players. They've got
2:02:01
four of them in the NFL right now, and now
2:02:03
Elijah looks like he's going to be the next good
2:02:04
one too.
2:02:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, Luther has a bustload of kids and they are
2:02:10
all good football players. Got twelve kids. It's like Luther
2:02:14
is the greatest guy in where we played together.
2:02:15
Speaker 3: You guys were teammates at college, and it's such a sweetheart.
2:02:19
Speaker 2: They're just they're just some of the finest people ever
2:02:22
ever made.
2:02:23
Speaker 1: Malachi Brown the tailback here as Griggs beat backpedals to pass,
2:02:29
throwing off his back Foot's got a man way after
2:02:31
overshot him. He was open though. That was like so
2:02:36
Ley who was opening the Utah territory. Complete third down
2:02:39
coming up, you know comes Ron McBride. This when I
2:02:42
talked to him about the rig of Honor, I said,
2:02:45
you know when you changed the culture, was there a
2:02:47
singular player for you that helped turn the tide here?
2:02:49
Speaker 3: He said it was Luther Ellis.
2:02:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was that player, a kid from kind
2:02:54
of nowhere, Colorado that just had a body to grow
2:02:57
into and they and they realized they learned something from that.
2:03:01
Find these young kids with you know, their ceiling, they
2:03:05
just haven't reached their ceiling yet. And they've got a
2:03:08
lot of players like that.
2:03:09
Speaker 1: Two out of ten on third down, it's third down
2:03:11
and eight here for cal Poly Griggsby to pass over
2:03:14
the middle.
2:03:14
Speaker 3: Pass caught and did he drop it? Dope? He hung on,
2:03:17
nice Catchfidel.
2:03:22
Speaker 1: Pitch made that catch backup wide receiver held on good
2:03:25
throw to by Griggsby. That'll be a first down their
2:03:27
first third down conversion here at the second half.
2:03:31
Speaker 2: And that's a play that that's one of the more
2:03:34
effective plays that they've had in this game, where they've
2:03:36
had three wide receivers and they just throw a slant
2:03:39
to the white side.
2:03:40
Speaker 1: They're just gonna let it chick down to the end
2:03:41
of the third quarter here at Rye Skeel Stadium, and
2:03:43
we'll do it with them. Three quarters in the books,
2:03:45
one quarter to go. Here on this Saturday evening in
2:03:48
Salt Lake City, Utah leads it fifty six to six
2:03:52
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I remember Riycecel Stadium at Salt Lake City, Utah. We
2:04:01
head to the fourth quarter all Utah today not unexpected.
2:04:04
Fifty six to six is our score. Third quarter numbers.
2:04:07
Utah came out of the locker room with a statement
2:04:10
two hudred and fifteen yards and the third for Utah,
2:04:13
twenty nine for cal Poly won twenty six on the ground,
2:04:16
eighty nine through the air for the Utes. Nine on
2:04:18
the ground, twenty through the air for cal Poly. Time
2:04:21
of possession was almost equal in that third quarter when
2:04:24
Utah really just got it done. Three for three on
2:04:27
third downs, eight first downs, and well it wasn't just
2:04:31
Devin Damp here either. We saw Devin for a couple
2:04:33
of drives, but boy Bird Fickling was terrific two three
2:04:36
for three forty seven yards plus a thirty eight yard
2:04:39
touchdown run as well, and you'd find themselves up by
2:04:43
fifty here Scott.
2:04:44
Speaker 3: As we head to the fourth quarter, you.
2:04:45
Speaker 2: Kind of feel like some of these guys where you
2:04:47
don't really know totally who they are in practice, and
2:04:50
they get under the lights, they get out on the field,
2:04:53
that adrenaline gets going and they just start making plays.
2:04:56
And that's just kind of what you saw with Burke
2:04:58
the fickling, I mean, just making plays that the offense
2:05:01
did not stall at all, was not one dimensional, and
2:05:04
he just just felt like he was up to the moment.
2:05:10
Speaker 1: So we bring in the fourth quarter here at rights
2:05:13
Eckel Stadium, first and ten for cal Poly. Riggsby stays
2:05:20
in the game, hands the ball off straight ahead, pretty
2:05:22
straightforward run there.
2:05:24
Speaker 3: By Malakay Brown. Back up to the backup to the
2:05:29
backup running back Mallechai Brown, and he picks up almost
2:05:32
five yards on first down.
2:05:34
Speaker 2: You know, getting back to Burt Fickland. I don't know
2:05:37
who the backup quarterback really is, but I think Bert
2:05:41
Fickland showed something like, Okay, if he had to come
2:05:43
in and play for you might be okay.
2:05:51
Speaker 1: Second down in five almost six yards. Griggsby back pedals
2:05:57
lots of time. Now he's going to scramble out to
2:05:59
the right down the field where he's got a man
2:06:01
wide open, caught inside the thirty five? Was that Malachie
2:06:05
Brown again? Boy, he's doing everything right now. Brown wheeled
2:06:09
out of the backfield, came up with a catch. Paulow
2:06:11
had the coverage, but he's stuck behind the secondary. Griggs
2:06:15
made a nice throw on the run for a first hour.
2:06:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's a long time to try to have
2:06:19
to cover a guy, and you know you haven't had
2:06:21
a lot of chances in the game and easy to
2:06:25
get lost.
2:06:27
Speaker 1: Person intended to Utah thirty yard line. Brown stays at
2:06:30
the ball game as a tailbag. Griggs being the shotgun.
2:06:33
You're talking to rush four here, Griggsby's gonna pass steps
2:06:36
up and he will be taken down.
2:06:39
Speaker 3: See if they call that a sack or not.
2:06:42
Speaker 1: That was Carson Capoussi came up with with the play
2:06:46
right there. Carson had a half a sack a week
2:06:47
ago against UCLA. Get a guess that they don't call
2:06:52
that a sack. We'll see what Dave tells us here
2:06:54
in a minute ago, almost back to the line of scrimmage.
2:06:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's back in the throws. That's gotta be a sack.
2:07:00
Speaker 1: Second down in ten and a half here he think
2:07:03
he's a half yard back. I'm lobbying for the sack
2:07:06
here for Carson Kapusi, who, by the way, they love
2:07:09
his upside as well. Kafusies just keep coming in the
2:07:13
state of Utah. Second down in ten and a half
2:07:16
is the throw outside is caught, nicely done. Man in
2:07:20
his face, delivered it to the outside and a game
2:07:24
down to the twenty four yard line of almost six yards.
2:07:29
Speaker 3: Cal Zimmerman backup tight end. Well, this is a big
2:07:34
moment for this defense, and I've played so hard. I
2:07:37
want to keep cal Paul out of the end zone here.
2:07:40
Speaker 1: They converted on their last third down. We'll see what
2:07:42
they do right here, third down and almost five. They
2:07:45
did not give Carson Kaufusie a sack. Grigsby into shotgun
2:07:52
Utah with five of the line of scrimmage, play clock
2:07:54
down to five. Griggsb ready, so is Utah here they come.
2:08:01
Griggsby's gonna keep it out on the edge and he's
2:08:03
not gonna get there. Swarmed under it about the twenty
2:08:06
three yard line. Paul Fitzgerald stayed home in his defensive
2:08:10
end spot and made the tackle fourth down, coming up
2:08:13
fourth down at about three.
2:08:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, real nice this one. That's tart play there because
2:08:16
it set that counter and just did a nice job
2:08:19
of blowing it up and then the quarterback has to
2:08:21
bounce it and the guys are there to make the play,
2:08:23
and that's that's what you want to do in that situation.
2:08:25
Just blow those counter guys up, bounce the play.
2:08:30
Speaker 1: Fourth down and three. They're gonna go for it here
2:08:32
on fourth down their first attempt of the night.
2:08:34
Speaker 3: Pistol formation.
2:08:37
Speaker 1: Movement up front, and this is gonna go against cal Poly.
2:08:42
The offensive line all moved and the ball was not snapped.
2:08:48
Speaker 7: Pole Stark offense number sixty six, five yard.
2:08:52
Speaker 4: Penalty is fourth down.
2:08:53
Speaker 1: Commodi Fafita gets that, but I think that's more on
2:08:56
the center than it is on anybody else, because just
2:08:59
about the higher offensive line moved well.
2:09:01
Speaker 2: And you guys, they know it's like we got to
2:09:03
get a push here, We got to do something. So
2:09:05
they're ready to get off that ball, and sometimes it's
2:09:08
just hard to just hold it long enough to get
2:09:12
it happening when it should.
2:09:14
Speaker 1: So now they're going to attempt a field goal. This
2:09:16
is going to be about a forty six yard attempt.
2:09:21
Speaker 2: This this is Uta subven and then this guy's.
2:09:28
Speaker 3: Taking their time snap his back kick is away. It's
2:09:34
no good.
2:09:35
Speaker 1: But they weren't supposed to snap the yet Utah was allowed.
2:09:38
Speaker 3: To sub there.
2:09:39
Speaker 1: They're going to back that up another five yards. That
2:09:41
snap should not have happened.
2:09:42
Speaker 2: Nope.
2:09:45
Speaker 1: Can you decline the penalty? I think it's a pre
2:09:46
snap penalty. I don't think you could. I don't think
2:09:48
you can decline it.
2:09:49
Speaker 2: Here supposed to let the guy get off the field.
2:09:52
They're holding it right. They didn't let the guy get
2:09:55
off the field. See, I don't know if it's a
2:10:02
guy coming in late. I mean, I guess he's subbing
2:10:05
in that. You know how they know that it should
2:10:06
shouldn't It shouldn't be a play.
2:10:10
Speaker 8: The defense has an opportunity team, Yeah, to match up
2:10:13
de lay a game offense. Five yard penalty's golf down.
2:10:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, that that's absolutely against cal Poly because it was
2:10:20
pre snap. You can't decline and the field goal was
2:10:23
missed by the way wide right, But the forty six
2:10:26
will now become a fifty one yard field goal. It's
2:10:28
siRNA out there to attempt it. Tomorrow attempts the short ones.
2:10:36
Serna attempts the long ones fifty one yards just inside
2:10:40
the left hash. Good snap and good hold. The kick
2:10:44
is away. It's end over end, and it is good.
2:10:49
How about Serna knocking it through? All the points today
2:10:53
for cal Poly had been field goals, including that fifty
2:10:55
one yard field goal. With eleven thirteen to play here
2:10:58
in the fourth, it's Utah fifty six and cal Poly nine.
2:11:02
This is Utah football for ESPN seven hundred and the
2:11:04
Youth Sports Radio Network scoring drive for cal Poly nine
2:11:09
plays forty two yards, five eleven off the game clock.
2:11:12
Sarna Knox through a fifty one yard field goal after
2:11:15
he missed from forty six, so the penalty actually.
2:11:18
Speaker 3: Benefited cal Pauly.
2:11:19
Speaker 1: There they get their ninth point on the board all
2:11:21
field goals today, But Trail's still fifty six to nine
2:11:24
here with eleven thirteen to play the ball game.
2:11:31
Speaker 2: I just saw my backup quarterback Mike Richmond in the stands.
2:11:35
He had the fan camus like, hey, there's.
2:11:38
Speaker 3: Mike, Mike Richmond. Really nice guy.
2:11:42
Speaker 2: Oh, Mike's best done very well here. That's good, dude.
2:11:50
Speaker 1: Chick off coming from Lopez end over end lover will
2:11:55
let it drift over his head and out of the
2:11:56
end zone for a touchback. Utah will have it first
2:11:58
and ten the twenty five yard line. Bert Fickland's gonna
2:12:04
come back out run the quarterback position here for the
2:12:06
University of Utah.
2:12:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gotta be nice for a lot of these players.
2:12:11
Nate Johnson's played a lot, played well. Hunter Andrews has
2:12:14
played well. Bert Fickland's looks pretty good running backs have
2:12:19
run hard today.
2:12:26
Speaker 1: Bryce Duke the tailback now at the ballgame for the
2:12:28
University of Utah. Nate Johnson also in Fickland out of
2:12:34
the gun Hams at the Duke Duke goes straight ahead
2:12:37
twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty thirty one yard line.
2:12:43
I think Bryce got to do about the twenty seven
2:12:44
that his teammates pushed him out to about the thirty one.
2:12:47
Bobby Piland, former Utes made the tackle a nose tackle.
2:12:52
Speaker 2: No, I don't know if I'd want to be in
2:12:53
the middle of all that, all those bodies like that
2:12:55
and just be a weird sensation.
2:13:02
Speaker 1: Second down in four. Now, Fickland's gonna keep this with himself.
2:13:06
Speaker 3: Bird's got the.
2:13:06
Speaker 1: Thirty five and then he's wrapped up and thrown down
2:13:10
right there at the thirty five yard line.
2:13:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, Bird's got to hit that harder, hits that hard.
2:13:15
He gets past all those guys.
2:13:16
Speaker 3: And he's in the open field, and open field.
2:13:18
Speaker 1: Did pick up a first down now after the thirty
2:13:19
six yard gun picked up five, and that'll be a.
2:13:22
Speaker 3: First down for Utah. Clock keeps running.
2:13:24
Speaker 1: With ten twenty to play. From the thirty six, Fickland
2:13:39
throws in the flat. It's complete in the flat. That
2:13:44
was justin Stevenson who made that grab. Stevenson out to
2:13:51
about the.
2:13:52
Speaker 3: Forty two yard line for a game of six more yards.
2:13:55
Speaker 2: And he's gotta get a censor of this game. Well,
2:13:57
clock's running right now. But again by Bert Fickland on
2:14:01
these these little kind of multip you know, these run
2:14:04
pass option plays, little bootlegs.
2:14:07
Speaker 1: Semi talalonga the defensive tackle in the backfield operating as
2:14:11
a fullback. Right now for Utah, Fickland keeps it himself
2:14:15
out to the forty five and he picks up three.
2:14:17
Speaker 3: It'll be third down and one coming up.
2:14:20
Speaker 1: Kyle told me during the Coaches Show this week that
2:14:22
there's a few more guys on defense that could see
2:14:24
some time on offense.
2:14:25
Speaker 3: And I think he was talking about Semi.
2:14:27
Speaker 1: Semi's kind of buried on the defensive tackle chart, but
2:14:30
he's a heck of an athlete.
2:14:32
Speaker 3: They're using him as a fullback down.
2:14:33
Speaker 2: He pulled on that last play looking for someone who's
2:14:36
a pass but man, it look.
2:14:37
Speaker 3: Good hand off Rice Duke.
2:14:39
Speaker 1: He's got first down yardage beyond the forty six to
2:14:41
the forty seven Utah converts. It's seven third down of
2:14:44
the night. There's seven out of eleven on third down,
2:14:48
and they'll.
2:14:48
Speaker 2: Move the chains.
2:14:49
Speaker 3: Got a flag get like like deep in the secondary.
2:14:53
Speaker 1: It's one back all the way the way deep. Maybe
2:15:00
some extracurricular after the play, here's a repereention soution.
2:15:07
Speaker 8: A legal substitution defense of more than eleven players. Feel yeah,
2:15:12
five year opendy results in the first down?
2:15:14
Speaker 6: Please you said the game con.
2:15:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the official deeps judge is to watch the
2:15:19
substitution and count the number of players on the field almost.
2:15:22
Speaker 2: Tell by kind of the timing and the place. I'm
2:15:30
shocked that they're letting Bird throw it as much as
2:15:32
they are. Maybe that's something that they feel like he's
2:15:36
got to develop and giving him a chance to do so.
2:15:41
Speaker 1: The ball out at the forty seven yard line, first
2:15:46
and ten, Utah gonna break the huddle quickly here with
2:15:52
eight of the play clock. Fick one to Duke, Brice, Duke.
2:15:59
Speaker 5: To the fifty yard Let's just shy.
2:16:01
Speaker 1: The fifty yard line for short gain of three Utah
2:16:05
and to kill the clock mode right now, get two
2:16:07
and three and four and five yards of pop right now, still.
2:16:10
Speaker 2: Well, and you know the folks are exiting the building here.
2:16:14
When you hear the quarterback clap, it's like we can
2:16:18
hear that all the way up here in the booth.
2:16:20
Probably hear him calling stuff. I can actually hear Jason
2:16:23
Beck screaming and yelling next next door to me. He's
2:16:26
over there coaching.
2:16:28
Speaker 1: From the sixth floor here at Receycle Stadium.
2:16:31
Speaker 3: Second down at seven for Utah.
2:16:33
Speaker 1: Just shy at midfield clock running eight oh five to
2:16:35
play here the ball game all Utah here today fifty
2:16:40
six to nine uts Nate Johnson's got it and.
2:16:44
Speaker 3: He falls forward.
2:16:46
Speaker 1: Up to about the fifty yard line for about a
2:16:48
half yard game.
2:16:51
Speaker 3: Or seek. Gillory also in the ballgame for the first
2:16:53
time for Utah.
2:16:55
Speaker 2: I gotta say, you know, one of the players have
2:16:56
been most impressed with today is Nate Johnson in that
2:17:00
he was such a straight lane runner before and he's
2:17:02
really really starting to get a comfort level with the
2:17:06
nuance of being a runner, and you know where he's
2:17:09
got to be a little bit more elusive. We got
2:17:11
to hit that whole hard and he's shown a lot
2:17:14
of promise today.
2:17:16
Speaker 1: Third down at seven for Utah almost eight yards perfect
2:17:19
this half. Four for four on third downs, seven of
2:17:22
eleven in the ball game. Hand off Nate Johnson into
2:17:25
the open field. Date Johnson forty thirty five had belped
2:17:28
it out of bounds on the Utah sideline at the
2:17:31
cow Poly thirty four yard line. Nice run by Nate
2:17:35
good read there by Bird picklin By and Duke shoved
2:17:38
him out of bounce.
2:17:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a tough run by Nate Johnson gets
2:17:42
up the field, you know, really nice breaks a tackle,
2:17:44
gets knocked out of bounds and guess who he wipes
2:17:46
out on the sideline who takes out? Poo Poo Poopoo
2:17:50
was standing there. He've wiped him out.
2:17:51
Speaker 1: Man Utah letting this clock trickle way down. They're breaking
2:17:56
the huddle at about nine ten seconds each and every time.
2:18:00
Playclock now at ten game clock at six forty five,
2:18:04
Bryce Duke in the backfield with bird fick one and
2:18:08
give it a Duke again makes his way forward and
2:18:10
falls down three yard game down of the thirty one
2:18:13
yard line. Todd just kind of nkkeel and Diamond this
2:18:16
one down the stretch.
2:18:17
Speaker 2: Well, what you know I'd like to see too. I mean,
2:18:20
this is just predominantly your second unit here, but still
2:18:24
getting a really nice surge of the off the line
2:18:26
of scrimmage.
2:18:27
Speaker 1: Here, second down in seven Gillery in the ballgame for Utah.
2:18:33
Didn't see he or Daniel Bray last weekend at UCLA.
2:18:36
Get to see him getting a little chance here today.
2:18:39
With six oh four, six h three, six h two
2:18:42
to play.
2:18:45
Speaker 3: Second down and seven.
2:18:52
Speaker 1: Hand off, Gillory picks his way forward to the twenty
2:18:56
seven for a game of four. Nice player out of Aledo, Texas,
2:19:01
A four star recruit. He was the first team All
2:19:03
district guy a year ago. He's fast too, not real
2:19:06
big at five to nine, but he was track and
2:19:08
field athlete at Alito High School.
2:19:10
Speaker 3: So third down at about three coming up here for Utah.
2:19:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, some of those smaller guys, they get lost in
2:19:15
there and they can kind of knife their way through
2:19:16
and get some yardage. Cal Paul's kind of selling out
2:19:19
on the run here, and if they don't, everyone hit
2:19:22
their gap right, you might get another gash run.
2:19:24
Speaker 1: I think money Parks was also from Aledo, Texas. If
2:19:27
I'm not mistaken, Utah eight out of twelve on third down,
2:19:30
they've got an empty backfield here for Bird Picklin. Bird's
2:19:35
gonna keep it himself out on the edge. He's got
2:19:37
running room and down and out of bounds. At about
2:19:39
the twenty yard line gain of seven and a first down,
2:19:43
Troy Bean shoved him out of bounds. I got to say,
2:19:46
and I know this is backup time and he's playing
2:19:48
against backups, but I really like the way Bird Pickland's
2:19:51
operating this offense.
2:19:52
Speaker 2: Got He's been very comfortable, very confident in his reads.
2:19:56
Is a really nice run right there, actually kind of
2:20:00
to the inside and jumps to the outside, which is
2:20:02
a which is a move of a guy that's comfortable
2:20:05
running the football. And but the throwing has been just
2:20:08
phenomenal when he's thrown. Of course, not gonna throw it now,
2:20:10
but it's very very impressive.
2:20:13
Speaker 3: Ay Johnson wildcat quarterback.
2:20:15
Speaker 1: Right now, Fickland comes in motion, Nate keeps it himself
2:20:20
pinpoint straight ahead, tiptoeing his way forward and picks up
2:20:24
nine to the eleven yard line. That was a very
2:20:26
patient run by Nate Johnson.
2:20:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's in traffic, and Nate, you know, wasn't
2:20:31
great in traffic before and just not really comfortable with it.
2:20:34
But man, he's in there. He's just patient, but you know,
2:20:37
he's making cuts, but he's making a moving.
2:20:39
Speaker 3: Forward trip into the danubew Credit Union red zone.
2:20:43
Speaker 2: Just really impressive there by by Nate all game quite frankly.
2:20:47
Speaker 1: Got two wide receivers split wide to the right here,
2:20:50
Duke and Simmons. I doubt they're gonna put the ball
2:20:52
in the air. In fact, they only have one defender
2:20:54
out here with the two players now three players, Nate
2:21:00
Johnson in a quarterback, Nate gonna keep it himself out
2:21:04
on that left edge inside. He goes to the five
2:21:06
and belt it down right there. Six yard gain and
2:21:09
a first and gold coming up here for Utah.
2:21:13
Speaker 2: And Nate set that up really nicely. You know, this
2:21:15
time he kind of started to the outside, let him
2:21:18
commit to the outside and then he cuts back inside
2:21:20
and that that's just a sign of maturity, a sign
2:21:23
of comfort. He goes in just boom, nope, going to
2:21:25
the inside here and get the first down. But all
2:21:28
of it's going forward, you know, And that was something
2:21:30
that he just wasn't doing a great job up before
2:21:32
and big improvement. Man, I can't get over this with
2:21:36
Nate Johnson doing.
2:21:37
Speaker 3: A nice job.
2:21:38
Speaker 1: First down in goal Utah for the five yard line.
2:21:41
Johnson stays in at quarterback, brings fick linnen motion. Nate
2:21:48
goes forward to the three, pushing the pile to the
2:21:50
two and down very close to the one yard line.
2:21:54
His knee almost went down on that staff, but apparently
2:21:57
he kept it up. Second down in Gold coming up
2:21:59
from about the one the up yard line.
2:22:01
Speaker 2: See and this is where you know, getting all this
2:22:03
time for Nate Johnson just gonna make him feel so
2:22:05
much more confident. If Nate would have stayed the outside,
2:22:08
followed his blockers probably be in the probably in the
2:22:10
locker room right now. Just to keep running.
2:22:13
Speaker 1: Nate's gonna split out wide left here second down and
2:22:16
goal at the two yard line. Two and a half
2:22:17
to play. Cal Poly Mustangs hands on their hips.
2:22:25
Speaker 3: They break the huddle, Bird Fickland by himself for the backfield.
2:22:31
Bird takes the snap, keeps it himself.
2:22:33
Speaker 1: He'll walk into the end zone off the left side
2:22:36
and that's a touchdown untouched out to the left edge
2:22:41
and into the end zone for six for Bird Pickland
2:22:44
his second touchdown today. And Utah goes up sixty two
2:22:48
to nine.
2:22:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, extremely impressive there by the the second unit. And
2:22:56
you know, Nate Johnson great on that Bird Fickland was
2:22:59
just really nice, Uh, just clean. I don't know, Dave,
2:23:04
did they throw the ball at all in that drive?
2:23:05
I think they had one throw in the whole drive,
2:23:07
but they basically just yeah, they won for one for
2:23:11
six yards, but they basically just ran the ball down
2:23:14
their throat.
2:23:15
Speaker 3: Pat up and good.
2:23:16
Speaker 1: But Dylan Curtis takes us to what's likely our final
2:23:21
regular time out of the night. Fifteen plays seventy five
2:23:25
yards nine oh one off the play clock, Utah sixty
2:23:29
three cal poly nine. This is Utah football from ESPN
2:23:33
seven hundred You had Sports Radio Network.
2:23:38
Speaker 3: Human has remained here at.
2:23:39
Speaker 1: Rice ecl Stadium on a Saturday evening here at Salt
2:23:42
Lake City, Utah, on the way to going two and
2:23:44
zero sixty three to nine. They lead cal Poly Right
2:23:48
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of Doeterra. And it's second down in five for Grigsby
2:24:03
Malachi Brown and this Mustang offense hand off the Brown
2:24:12
straight through a hole into the open field beyond the
2:24:14
forty It's falling on there at about the forty two
2:24:18
yard line.
2:24:25
Speaker 2: That's a tough situation because in a two minutes.
2:24:30
Speaker 1: Tough playing soft here they'll rush just for Griggsby checks
2:24:33
with the side line, changes his play. Now game clock
2:24:37
at a minute forty to play Brown, the tailback takes
2:24:39
it off the left side, bounces to the outside, rolls
2:24:41
down to about the forty five. He picks up, call
2:24:46
it three on the play ninety seconds to play. Clock
2:24:49
continues to run.
2:24:50
Speaker 2: What's tough about it is as a defensive cording to you,
2:24:54
do you not want him to get in the hand zone?
2:24:56
And you got all your second third guys in hope
2:24:59
they play as hard as the other guys did.
2:25:06
Speaker 1: Griggsby out of the gun on second down in seven
2:25:13
pistol formation. Now for cal polland play action roll to
2:25:18
the right hand side.
2:25:19
Speaker 3: Being chased. They can't come up with him.
2:25:21
Speaker 1: Now he'll throw it down the field and throw it
2:25:22
incomplete god of bounds on the far sideline coming up
2:25:26
on third down fifty four seconds to play.
2:25:29
Speaker 2: That's a nice job by the defense that you know,
2:25:31
they really plastered all over series No. One.
2:25:33
Speaker 1: For the quarterback, Lance Holtzklaw had to chase that time,
2:25:36
couldn't quite bring him down.
2:25:37
Speaker 2: And it forces him to kind of, you know, not
2:25:40
really be in any kind of position to make a
2:25:42
good throw. I mean, even though he doesn't get to him,
2:25:44
he still alters his ability to make a play.
2:25:47
Speaker 1: Third down and seven for the Mustangs from their own
2:25:51
forty five yard line, fifty four seconds to play. Griggsby
2:26:00
pumps throws outside, caught but well short of first down yardage.
2:26:07
Rock Caldwell had the coverage on the near side and
2:26:09
I got to bring up fourth down at about four. Well,
2:26:12
they'll go forward here with forty seconds to play.
2:26:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, Colwill played that really nice. I mean he was
2:26:17
anticipating that throw and was right on it. It was a
2:26:20
very minimal game.
2:26:23
Speaker 1: Griggsby and the gun on fourth down and four, Utah,
2:26:29
I'm gonna show a little pressure now, back out of it.
2:26:33
Speaker 3: Play Crocketts in.
2:26:37
Speaker 1: Hand off tail back, taking down behind the line of scrimmage.
2:26:41
Paul Fitzgerald, who's had a really nice game tonight, makes
2:26:44
the tackle and the defense makes a stand and we've
2:26:47
got ten seconds left to play.
2:26:49
Speaker 2: And that makes Morgan Scalley a very very happy man
2:26:52
right now because.
2:26:53
Speaker 1: He did not give up a touchdown today. Gave up
2:26:54
just three field goals.
2:26:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that that matters. And just nice play there
2:27:01
by the defense get off the field.
2:27:03
Speaker 3: What formation they going to come out in Scott, Oh.
2:27:05
Speaker 2: The best formation in all football, the victory formation.
2:27:10
Speaker 1: As much as he did a week ago against UCLA
2:27:12
Bird Pickland. We'll get to take the victory formation here
2:27:14
today as well. Takes a knee and that's the ballgame.
2:27:23
Utah comes home and opens up the home portion of
2:27:26
its season by a final score of sixty three to
2:27:31
nine of the cal Poly Mustangs. And it's a great
2:27:33
night to be a ute here in Salt Lake City, Utah.
2:27:36
Speaker 3: As Utah proves to two and zero on the year