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- 0:00Speaker 1: Utah fans, good evening and welcome in to a sold
- 0:03Speaker 1: out and blacked out Rice-Eccles.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Stadium for a 100th straight game.
- 0:07Speaker 1: It's sold out here and it's the biggest game of
- 0:10Speaker 1: the season, both for Utah and the Big 12 Conference.
- 0:13Speaker 1: As the 14th ranked Houston Cougars come to town to
- 0:16Speaker 1: take on one of three remaining unbeatens in college football,
- 0:20Speaker 1: the 10th ranked University of Utah, Utah. Keep an eye
- 0:23Speaker 1: on the quarterback's legs here, Wegman very good in short yardage.
- 0:26Speaker 1: Third down and two and a half. Tight end in motion.
- 0:30Speaker 1: Wegman to pass. Into the flat.
- 0:32Speaker 2: Tight end. Catches it! He's upended immediately.
- 0:36Speaker 1: He completed that ball to his tight end over Meyer.
- 0:40Speaker 1: And he was immediately upended at the 32-yard line. He's
- 0:43Speaker 1: slow getting up. And the Utah defense makes a stop
- 0:46Speaker 1: on third down. It'll be fourth down.
- 0:48Speaker 2: The punt team comes out for Houston. Scooby.
- 0:50Speaker 1: Cougars one out of two on third down so far tonight.
- 0:53Speaker 1: It's a third down and almost six. Wegman out of
- 0:55Speaker 1: the gun. Trips to the left-hand side for Connor Wegman
- 0:59Speaker 1: as he backpedals to pass.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Looking, throwing, over the middle, caught, easy. Into Utah territory
- 1:04Speaker 2: they go.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Still running 40, 35-30, 25-20, and finally pushed out of
- 1:08Speaker 1: bounds at the Utah 12-yard line. Goodness gracious. That was
- 1:15Speaker 1: Amari Thomas who made the catch and the run. He
- 1:18Speaker 1: was by himself and picked up 56 yards. Fourth down,
- 1:22Speaker 1: half a yard for the Houston Cougars. Out of the shotgun,
- 1:24Speaker 1: Connor Wegman. Four pass catchers in the pattern. Hughes next
- 1:28Speaker 1: to him in the shotgun. It gets loud in the bus.
- 1:31Speaker 1: Wegman to pass. Looking, scanning, throwing.
- 1:34Speaker 2: Incomplete. Incomplete. The Utah defense stands up and holds.
- 1:43Speaker 1: Ball knocked away by Bobo Chenault. They tried to get
- 1:47Speaker 1: it into the tight end. And Chenault got there first.
- 1:50Speaker 1: And the defense comes up with a big stand here
- 1:53Speaker 1: in the first quarter. From the Utah 27-yard line, Devon's
- 1:56Speaker 1: going to drop back to pass.
- 1:57Speaker 2: Plenty of time. Good pocket. He's going to step up
- 1:59Speaker 2: and try and run away from that pressure now. He's
- 2:01Speaker 2: got the 35. He's got the 40. He's got the 45.
- 2:03Speaker 2: And a Utah first down. The legs of Devon Dampier.
- 2:09Speaker 2: Star back Javion White made the tackle.
- 2:12Speaker 1: A 20-yard gallop for Dampier and an Ivory Holmes first down.