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Utah vs. Colorado 10-25-25 · Utah Football Gameday Archive

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Speaker 1: You're talk Man's good evening and welcome in do a
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sold out in striped down rice E Cold Stadium Saturday
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night at Salt Lake City and a Rocky Mountain rival
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in town, the Colorado Buffalos. So good to be with
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you tonight wherever you may be listening in. I'm Bill Riley,
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joined by my broadcast partner Scott Mitchell upstairs and Stevenson
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Sylvester downstairs. Last week is now in the past. Scott Mitchell,
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You tah can only focus on one thing, that's winning
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tonight and then the next four weeks after that to
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keep themselves in the Big twelve race. Yeah, and it's
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a great thing to focus on. You know what you
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have to do.
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Speaker 2: You have to win, and it sounds silly, but it
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really helps you to keep things in the right perspective,
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the right focus.
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Speaker 3: And you just got to take it a week at.
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Speaker 2: A time and just get on a roll and get
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into a rhythm and finish out the season. This is
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a crazy conference and a lot of football is still
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left to be played and you aren't out of it
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at all.
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Speaker 3: We've seen this in the past.
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Speaker 2: We know there's a real possibility it's going to be
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an uphill battle. But you only have to get in
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one of those spots. You don't have to be first,
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you just have to be second. And there's there's a
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real possibility you got you talk to do that.
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Speaker 1: Chaos is what Utah needs. But tonight they need to
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focus on beating the Colorado Buffalos. Colorado comes in after
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a bye week. They're three and four and one in
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three and Big twelve play Scott But coach prime Dion
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Sanders has a good football team that comes in here today.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he does.
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Speaker 2: And he's got you know, he's got a lot of
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pride and he's he's really focused on turning this program around,
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turning the culture around, and he's turned a corner with it.
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They still got a lot of work left to do.
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They have a lot of guys that have you know,
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been banged up in whatever. But they've got a quarterback
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that's that can make things happen, and he seems to
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be getting in into a pretty decent rhythm here in
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this as a kind of this middle half of the season.
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Speaker 1: So when you have a rested team like Colorado is,
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you know, look for some new wrinkles, look for some things,
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and looks for some energy from them.
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Speaker 3: They have to win too, so this is a This
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is a big game for both these teams.
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Speaker 1: And speaking of quarterbacks, Utah will have a change at
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quarterback tonight. Berti will start for the University of Utah.
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Devin damp Pier not healthy and ready to go. Re
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injured himself last week against BYU, So a true freshman
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will start for the University of Utah tonight just the
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seventh time, actually the sixth time a true freshman quarterback
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will start a game for the University of Utah. He'll
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start tonight and Utah will get the football first because
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Colorado won the toss and elected to defer. We'll go
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down to the third member of our broadcast team after
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the kick. Here our game tonight being brought to you
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glad you're with us tonight. Get another sellout crowd. It's
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we're ready to go.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is an exciting night. I mean, you know
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you got a large crowd. They're electric. Bert Fickland I'm
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sure he's happy. He wants to get out on the
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field quick. He didn't want to wait around. He didn't
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want to you know how the defense go get those
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nerves out, and I'm excited.
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Speaker 3: I'm excited to see what Burt can do.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're underway. The kickoff's going to be high and
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through the back of the end zone in Utah and
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Burt Picklin will start first intent at their own twenty
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five yard line. Down to the sideline we go. Third
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member of our broadcast team, Stevenson Sylvester slide. What's the
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mood on the sideline with a new quarterback starting tonight
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for Utah?
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Speaker 4: Man, a lot of engine energy and focus in the
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locker room. I've seen coach waiting have very intense and
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that's where it starts, right. It starts with the head
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coach setting the tone with everything in the locker room
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on the way out, a lot of focus in intensity. Man,
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and but this crowd, I'm here at the north end zone.
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You can't hear anything. It's beautiful.
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Speaker 1: Tonight sideline update brought to you by Ken Garth. We
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hear you. Ficklin in the shotgun brings a man in motion,
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hands into that man on the right hand side. Daniel
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Bray up the sideline, Bray thirty five and ripped down
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at the Utah thirty seven yard line, a gain of
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twelve on first down. More Daniel Bray, Please got more,
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Daniel Bray.
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Speaker 2: Well, Utah really got the edge blocked right there, and
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Bird was twelve yards before anyone touched him.
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Speaker 3: Hey, if it works, keep going to it.
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Speaker 1: First in ten at to thirty seven. Bird in the
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shotgun again. Bray comes in motion again. This time Bird
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Picklan's gonna keep it. He's got it. Forty five fifty
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forty five, forty thirty five, thirty up the sidelight, he goes,
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he's gonna go there. He goes, touchdown, touchdown, Bird pickland
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sixty three yards into the south end zone and just
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like that, the true freshman electrifies Rice Ecle stadium.
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Speaker 3: Ah, oh my goodness, what a way to.
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Speaker 2: Start your first play as a starter. You your first
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touch and he goes untouched. I mean, it was just
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a beautiful play right there. That's a that's the freshman
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and freshman duel right there.
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Speaker 1: Those two.
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Speaker 2: Boy, What what a great play, what a great read.
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And it's just about the blocking up front. I mean
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both these plays were just so well blocked and just
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perfectly executed.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 1: And then it was the vision and the speed of
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bird fick Lynn into the end zone. He goes a
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Pepsi touchdown, the pat is up and good, and Utah
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leads at seven to nothing. That is how you begin
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a freshman, first time starter for Bert Picklin.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's it's so awesome when they do that
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zone read and that and just crashes and you know
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you're gonna keep the ball. I think it was the
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Bentley or someone was looking back. He's like, come on, Burt,
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there's nobody here.
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Speaker 1: Let's go. Last year, Isaac Wilson ran forty eight yards.
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That was the longest run for a freshman quarterback in
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Utah football history. Tonight, Burt Picklan says, hold by Pepsi,
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I'm gonna go sixty three for a touchdown. And he
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does just that to plays seventy five yards thirty seven
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seconds off the game clock, and that's jumping out early
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seven nothing.
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Speaker 2: Wow, that's just electric, and you know that's what he's
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capable of right there. You know, hopefully we get a
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chance to see him throw it as well. But I'm
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so happy for him and really for this football team.
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And just the energy and the pace with which Utah
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has just has just come out here early is very
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very impressive.
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Speaker 1: Billy Curtis as it eat up in his own thirty
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five yard line, kicking north to south. Wow, what a
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start here in front of a sellout crowd. Curtis puts
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his right foot into it, drives it high and end
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over end. That's returnable for Gibson. He'll take it at
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the three yard line. Quenton Gibson to the twenty five
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to the twenty and driven backwards at the twenty five
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to the twenty three. Got a twenty yard return that
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time for Gibson. Good special teams coverage for Utah as Gray,
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asy Cayate and Salter come out. Elijah Ellis Luther's son
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made the tackle on that.
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Speaker 2: Well and there was no holding. I mean, that's a
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pretty good start rate there for sure.
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Speaker 1: So first and ten Colorado Cayden saw to the liberty transfer.
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He's got more touchdowns over the last four years in
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Division one football than anybody. He's got eighty actually to
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in the last three years. He's in the shotgun, Cam
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Michael in the backfield with him hand off, ball fumbled,
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dribbled on the turf, and then dropped back from the
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little us. They tried to get tricky that time, and
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Trey Reynolds was having none of it. They running back
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dropped it not once but twice, and finally picked it up.
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It was Cam Michael and he'll lose yardage all the
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way back to about the fifteen yard line, a loss
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of six on the play man. What was great about
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that play? It's that downhill.
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Speaker 2: These linebackers are reading their keys and they're playing downhill,
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and you just didn't see that a lot in the
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last week's game.
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Speaker 3: That's why it was for a loss.
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Speaker 1: Second down in sixteen, Salter sets the offense. Two backs
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to the backfield again. This time it's Michael and Welch.
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Now they motioned a man out Salter, the pass pressure
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coming dumps in the flat. It's dropped in complete. He
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was trying to swing that ball to the back out
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of the backfield Welch that time, and he was not
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able to hang on. Third down coming up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Trey Reynolds is getting the workout here. He's been
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involved in both those plays. He gets the balls very
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poorly thrown. He almost had a shot at getting a
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pick six right there.
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Speaker 1: Trey Reynolds playing because Lando Barton's out for the first
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half of the game after being ejected for a targeting penalty.
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In the second half of the YU lost third down
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in sixteen, Salter to pass pressure coming back pedaling hit
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as he throws down the field incomplete nearly intercepted by
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Tao Johnson and a three and out for the Utah defense.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, good play there and just great coverage and really
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kind of had to throw the ball a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Before he was ready to throw it.
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Speaker 2: I mean there's four or five guys on the receiver
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right there, and just a great effort by Tao to
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get to knock that ball down.
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Speaker 1: Monta Carvalio back to receive this punch he had the
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mishap of the game against BYU. Stands at his own
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forty yard line. The butter is Damon Graves, an Australian
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out of the Pro Kick Academy in Australia. He'll stand
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at his own two yard line Utah setting up the
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return here on fourth down in sixteen, Graves takes the
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low snap and kicks it pretty good kick Carvolio backpedaling,
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he lets it hit go over his head. Now let
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it roll, young man. Now he picks it up. He's
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on his feet, knocked down at the twenty five yard
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and then knocked down again by Colorado, but no flags.
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They'll give you the twenty six and we've got a
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time out of the field. Fifty eight yard punt no
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return and with three sixteen to play here the first quarter,
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we'll step aside. Our first half tonight being brought to
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We'll get that haircut today at Great Clips. Utah seven
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and Colorado nothing. This is Utah Football from ESPN seven hundred,
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the Youth Sports Radio Network. Back in rice Ecles Stadium.
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First half that I'd been brought to you by Bud Life,
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Scott Slye with you on a Saturday nights. Utah electrified
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this crowd with a Bert Fickland sixty three yard touchdown
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run on the second play of the game, then got
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a three and out. Now they'll have it back again, Scott.
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We'll see what Burt Fickland does on his second series.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just maybe I'm being selfish here, but I
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just want to see him throw the ball. Really, I
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want to see him throw the ball down the field,
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somewhere over the middle of the field.
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Speaker 1: Team to twenty yards. I just want to I just
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want to see, and I want to see it on time.
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Speaker 2: You know, on on schedule, on time. I would really
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like that. But the reality is, are probably gonna run
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the ball well.
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Speaker 1: Colorado gives up one hundred and eighty eight yards a
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game on the ground, so play to your strength. But
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you run it a couple of more times, then you're
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gonna open up that throw lane even more.
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Speaker 5: So.
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Speaker 1: We'll see what they do first to ten Utah their
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own twenty six. As Bird operates out of the shotgun
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with Nacari Rodgers next to him, three receivers at a
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tied end of the formation, break comes across that formation.
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Ticklin's gonna keep it himself again, this time not so
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much wrapped up and take it down behind the line
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of scrimmage. That time by top feet Bayern, whose brother
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Kevin plays in the NFL. They were ready for it
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that time. Yeah, and if you can get around the
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edge there, he's got a big play. You know.
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Speaker 2: It's almost like you should have given it to the
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back there because someone on the inside just missed the block.
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Speaker 1: Second down at eleven, Bray comes in motion again, play
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action past, this time for Fickland. Dumps it over the
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middle and it's caught and then dropped. Oh Dallan Ventley
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usually pretty sure handed, had that ball and then maybe
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he had it knocked away by the defensive back that
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was byered again. It'll be third down at eleven coming
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up just to.
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Speaker 2: I mean it's pretty close, just a little bit behind him.
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Bentley's got to stick that guy when he's running across
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the field and then plant and it creates more separation.
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Speaker 1: First third down tonight for Utah, third down at eleven
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at their own twenty five yard line, in the shotgun,
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thick with back pedal. They're gonna set up the screen again.
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Thrown in the flat, thrown shorts to Daniel Bray. They
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brought a pressure off the edge to Colorado that time.
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Forced a quick throw and that's a three and out.
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So yeah, piece of freshman. He'll make some mistakes and
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the plug team will come out now for Utah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is really what you want right here, and
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they got something set up for Bray. I like the
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play call. You gotta love that in the blitz. You
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gotta just retreat a little bit longer, give yourself a chance.
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If he makes a good throw, this play has really
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really got a chance. And those are those nuances you
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just got to figure out from playing.
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Speaker 1: No, those were his first two incompletions of the year.
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He was nine for nine. Come here's a Ryan Phillips
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on the punt. Para con back to receive this punt.
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He's got a fair catch it, or at least attempt
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to and does and his own thirty nine yard like
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kind of a short kick that time for Phillips thirty
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eight yards and no return. And now Colorado has better
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starting field position, this time at their own thirty nine
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yard line.
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Speaker 2: If Phillips would have just run the ball right up
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the middle of the field, there was nobody there. Colorado
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just turned and ran. They had two guys on the outside.
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He'd have probably run.
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Speaker 1: For twenty yards.
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Speaker 3: Those are those like aggressive plays.
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Speaker 2: You got to see him on special teams, and I'd
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just love to see more aggression, more take some more
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opportunities to get offense and explosion on your team through
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special team.
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Speaker 1: In a while since we've seen Utah fake or do
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anything special with special teams. Breeze out of the south
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at the back of Cayden Salter and the Colorado offense
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this time first in ten cam Michael in the backfield.
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Salter hands to Michael running straight ahead second level and
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picks up six out of the forty five yard line.
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Michael freshman out of Statesboro, Georgia. They like him a lot.
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He's gonna get some carries here tonight. Police both lays
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offense and defense. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And it's that backside cut, backside cut that is the
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problem for Utah when they when teams rush, well, that's
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the hole they hit right there.
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Speaker 1: Dallan Hayden in now at tailback, second down, we'll call
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it six hand to Hayden, picks his way forward, not
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much there, gets a yard maybe to the forty six
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yard line. Utah swarmed him up. Frun a leak Ibama.
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He was there to lead the way for Utah third
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down coming up here for the months.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, really nice, just setting the line of.
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Speaker 1: Scrimmage there with that defensive line it's not getting pushed
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back at all. And that's just the key. You know,
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everyone's just gotta be stout and stay in your gap.
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Colorado this year forty four percent on third down. It's
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not bad. Salter backpedals to pass pressure, coming throws outside
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complete and that's gonna be good for first down yard
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is they needed the forty nine and a half. They
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get it to Gibson on the outside, who falls down
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at the fifty, got the four and a half yards
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they needed for a first down.
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Speaker 2: He has a little pick play there and Smith noten
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just got picked off legally, but a good good call
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there by Colorado.
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Speaker 1: Welch in the ballgame at tail back first and ten
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from midfield, they give it a welch this time trying
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the left side and he's wrapped up and taken down immediately.
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Jodah Leea made the tackle that time for Utah, very
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talented young sophomore defensive tackle and a one yard gain
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on first down. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Noticeable difference by this defense this week. They're just this
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downhill early, really reading those keys quickly and getting in
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those gaps before Colorado can really get anything going.
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Speaker 1: You get those big offensive linemen stuck there. They can't
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go anywhere. Two backs to the backfield. On second down
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to nine from the Utah forty nine, Salter in the shotgun.
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I'm gonna give it to the tail back moving straight ahead.
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That's Michael Welch Poopoo set below to made the tackle
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after a one and a half yard game third down,
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A law coming up here for the bus. Yeah, that
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was a nice effort by Poopoo. He really just extended himself.
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Speaker 2: The play was kind of running away from him, and
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he just kind of dove and just made a nice
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play on something that could have been a big game.
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Speaker 1: Miller in the ball game. Now we'll see if he
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lines up in the backfield. Three pass catchers on the
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right hand side, one of the left. Miller in the backfield.
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Third down at seven bucks are one out of two.
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On third down, crowd gets loud Salter to pass pressure
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off the edge. He's running away from it. He's gonna
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go down. He goes down. Tray Reynolds got him off
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the edge. First second the year for Reynolds and the
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Utah defense comes up with a big stop. Yeah, that's
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where Salter likes to go is He likes to bail
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to the outside.
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Speaker 3: Utah knows it. So what a great play, great effort.
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Speaker 1: Car Volume back at his own ten yard line. We're
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gonna be fourth down at about nineteen. Now for Colorado
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Graves for his second part of the Knights.
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Speaker 2: Watch the nose of the football, young man. That'll tell
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you where it's gonna go.
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Speaker 1: Graves, averaging about forty three yards of kick on the
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year his first one win fifty eight, gets that kick away.
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It's another good one. This one's short, though. Carvoglo is
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gonna let it hit. Check up meets him at the seventeen.
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He goes up the field and gets to about the
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twenty four to twenty five yard line. Always an adventure,
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Utah defense been pretty good. First drive three plays, thirty
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seven second second plaive drive three plays forty three seconds slide.
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What have you seen down there?
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Speaker 4: I see Trey Renn being an absolute beast stepping up
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in the absence of Lander Varden playing Lander Bark's position.
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Great technique by him on shuffling the feet on lot
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of those TFLs and on that sacness. Is a great
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call by Morgan Scalley. Both linebackers came free Trey Reynolds.
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It was a race to the quarterback and Tray Reynolds
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one absolute great.
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Speaker 3: Job by this defense. Now now we need to get this.
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Speaker 4: Offense to step up and continue to put pressure pregame,
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we talked about starting fast. We started fast in that
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first drive. We can't stall keep putting the pressure on Sly.
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Speaker 1: I thanks that sideline update brought to you by Ken Garth.
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We hear you. Seven to nothing. Utah ninet twenty one
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to play here in the first first and ten uts
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from their own twenty five yard line. Bert Ficklin a
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touchdown run of sixty three yards on the opening drive.
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Three and out of the second we'll see what he
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has here. Wyshawn Parker takes the direct snap way Shawn
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Parker picks up about two yards to the twenty seven.
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That play looked like it had a lot to it.
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It didn't have much. Jeremiah Brown made the tackle for Colorado.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a bit like Asu where that line just
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gets a nice surge off the ball and then there's
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just someone there, you know.
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Speaker 1: And they had a lot of guys.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Colorado's really stacking the box here trying to stop.
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Speaker 1: The run, especially on first down. We'll be second down
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in eight. As they line up at the twenty seven,
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Parker stays at the ball game. Bird Ficklin backs up
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into the shotgun. He takes the low snap, moves to
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his right hand side. He spins out of one tackle,
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moves forward, and picks up another two yards out to
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about the twenty eight almost twenty nine yard line. Amaro McNeil,
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the defensive tackle transfer from Kentucky, made the play, and
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it's third down and long again here for Utah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Caleb Lomo has got to get off his guy
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right there, and that's a huge play again.
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Speaker 1: Bird by himself in the shotgun. Now two receivers left,
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two receivers right on third down and seven, they're oh
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for one on third down, he'll take another low snap
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look to throw over the middle in and out of
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the hands of the tie end Dalla Bentley. Again, that's
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back to back low snaps from the center Jared Kump
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and another three and out here for Utah Scott.
18:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, that looks like, you know, if you connect sued
19:00
it correctly, it looks like it's gonna be a kind
19:02
of a fake run and then a.
19:04
Speaker 3: Throw and rows high.
19:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's high, but this is really tight coverage right there,
19:09
and Burt's kind of jumping through the air like on that.
19:12
Speaker 3: But it almost looked like it was a run pass option.
19:16
Speaker 1: So fourth down at seven, punt team comes out to
19:18
Ryan Phillips there Faara Knt of his own thirty yard
19:21
line to return this kick. Another low snap. Now they're
19:24
gonna fake it. They pop it into the flat thirty
19:26
thirty five, forty forty five, fifty and down to the
19:30
Colorado forty seven to Dallan Bentley. Scott Mitchell called for
19:34
the fake last time and he got it that time. Man,
19:37
I'm so glad they saw that because it was glaringly obvious.
19:40
I mean even I could see it on that first one.
19:43
What a great throw by Phil. He's jacked out of
19:45
his mind now he's like, oh yeah, come here, and.
19:47
Speaker 2: Then boop, see you just make a nice pass. Dylan
19:49
Bentley goes, hey, how come my quarterback?
19:51
Speaker 1: You throw the ball like that? Twenty six yards on
19:54
that play in a first down to the Colorado forty
19:57
seven yard line.
19:58
Speaker 3: Leading passer for Utah's the.
19:59
Speaker 1: Punker, Ryan Phillips. Here's a play to Daniel Bray. He's
20:05
got it weaving in and out of traffic and picking
20:07
up two down to about the forty four yard line.
20:10
Tell you what Colorado's got good side to side speed,
20:12
not a lot on the edges right now. Hodge made
20:14
the tackle for the Buffs well, and they also have
20:16
an extra guy in the box. I mean, it's a
20:19
tough sledding for Utah right now. I'm gonna have to
20:21
throw the ball eventually. Rogers in the backfield. On second
20:25
down and eight, Bray comes in motion again. This time
20:27
na car. He has it moving straight ahead, pushes the
20:30
pile for about three to the forty one yard line,
20:33
but again not much running room. Colorado basically saying we're
20:36
putting too many guys in the box for you to
20:37
be able to block.
20:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, and what you have to do if you're gonna
20:40
run it, you just have to let the last guy
20:42
go away from the play and you can still block it.
20:45
But the guy who's free is as far away from
20:47
the ball as you possibly get. It's a way to
20:49
do it, but it's you know, it's it's still tough sledding.
20:53
Speaker 1: You got to throw the ball. Fickland looking for his
20:55
first completion. He's oh for three, utah, oh for two
20:58
on third down, third down six, here for the Uths
21:01
bray again in motion. Fickland keeps it himself straight ahead
21:05
close to first down Yardich, you'll have it. He needed six,
21:08
he got six to the forty six make it thirty
21:11
six of Colorado. Quincy Wiggins led the way, but that
21:14
was all bird Fickland.
21:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, in that play where you get you kind of
21:17
fake this the sweep and the son reading the quarterback.
21:22
He's a tough to and tough to defend.
21:25
Speaker 1: First down and ten, they'll go with some tempo. Now,
21:27
Rogers and Bray in the backfield with Fickland. Now Bird's
21:31
gonna step up and change the play. Six minutes to
21:34
play in the first quarter, seven to nothing, Utah motion
21:39
man across the formation, Fickland to pass, looking right, throwing right,
21:43
ball knocked away. Great defensive play on the outside. A
21:47
lot of Colorado defensive back. That was McKinny. He's outstanding.
21:51
And he was right there with Ryan Davis and it's late.
21:54
You know, he's hesitating on the throw right there. It's
21:56
almost like he had the guy going deep down. The
21:58
field was open and right right.
22:01
Speaker 2: You know, it's tough get You gotta stick a guy
22:03
up the field and then break away from.
22:05
Speaker 1: Him to get that separation. And it's it's hard to
22:08
do sometimes for guys. Second down in ten, Davis comes
22:11
in motion. Now he motion's back out again. They're gonna
22:13
throw again, throw the outside behind him and incomplete trying
22:17
to get it to Davis again that was way behind him.
22:20
Burt Vicklin is now zero for five passing and it's
22:22
third down to ten. Yeah.
22:24
Speaker 2: Again, these these routes that are against man coverage that
22:27
the wide receiver's got to give him a move and
22:31
and you step up the field and then you cut
22:33
out and the quarterback kind of has an anticipation, but
22:35
it also creates the separation and the receivers just aren't getting
22:39
much separation. His tight throws, Burt's gotta.
22:41
Speaker 1: Throw Utah one for three on third down, the emotion
22:44
a man out of the backfield Kicklin's gonna keep it himself,
22:46
picking his way forward through the thirty and dropped right
22:49
there at the thirty yard line about four yards. Shy
22:52
a first down yard. He's fired and made the tackle.
22:55
I think we're gonna get the field goal team on
22:57
the ten one right here, that's.
22:58
Speaker 2: Only three yards. Come on, what did the analytics stay
23:02
on that one?
23:04
Speaker 1: Dylan Curtis will come out and attempt a field goal
23:07
here for Utah of about forty eight yards, five for
23:11
eight on the year. All of his misses came at Wyoming.
23:15
He hit from fifty four against UCLA out of the
23:18
hold of Orion Phillips. Flag flies. And what do we have?
23:22
I think Colorado's got twelve on the field or did
23:25
the play clock expire?
23:26
Speaker 3: No, there was about eighteen seconds left.
23:31
Speaker 1: That's going to be false start on Utah five five
23:34
yard building fourth down, Well, this is going to become answer.
23:37
Curtis has a big leg, but there is a real
23:39
hard wind blowing out of the south right now, Scott,
23:42
look at the flags at the north end zone. That's
23:44
a pretty good gust coming into his face right here.
23:46
Forty eight is now going to become fifty three. He's
23:49
in for the left hand.
23:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got a strong leg. You know, it's you
23:52
just don't want to overkick it, you know, he's then
23:55
you get out of your rhythm.
23:57
Speaker 1: They'll try and again back it up five yards. Dylan
23:59
Kurk is ready when whipping on the field. Good snap,
24:04
good hold. The kick is away. It's end over end,
24:07
and it is good. Dylan Curtis dails it from fifty
24:11
three yards away. Ada Boyd Dylan, and Utah now leads
24:16
it ten to nothing, four to fifty one to play
24:18
here in the first half, first quarter, Utah ten and
24:22
of course Colorado nothing G two G brings you that
24:25
field goal. When you eat one, you'll know. We'll take
24:28
a time out, be back to talk about it next.
24:30
It's Utah football from ESPN seven hundred at the ut
24:33
Sports Radio Network. Four fifty one to play here, Utah
24:37
ten and Colorado's nothing. That last scoring drive eleven plays,
24:41
forty yards. Dylan Curtis nails it through a fifty three
24:44
yard field goal to put Utah double digits. Broadcast today
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Burn Ficklin Now with seventy five yards rushing. That's a
25:00
new freshman record for a quarterback. The previous record a
25:04
guy named Scott Kate. Remember Scott Kate, He was before
25:07
your time. Scott at sixty four in a game as
25:10
a freshman forty three years ago against San Diego State. That,
25:13
my friend, is a spat stack. Dave was going deep
25:16
at the record books for that one tonight.
25:18
Speaker 3: He is going back to eighteen fifty when they started
25:21
this school.
25:21
Speaker 1: By the way, Scott Kate got exactly one start as
25:24
a true freshman in eighty two, and it made the
25:25
most of it, went for sixty four yards on the ground. Well,
25:28
he made the most of his life after football. Yeah,
25:32
I've been very successful. Must be something about those Utah
25:38
quarterbacks named Scott tend up in Utah first after n
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I'd be brought to you by the University of Utah
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Campus Store, the official retailer of the u. Find him
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online at store dot Utah dot edu. Dylan Curtis, who
25:52
just knocked that fifty three yard field goal through. He's
25:54
got a big win in his face on this kickoff.
25:56
Quentin Gibson back deep to receive this kick. This one's
25:59
not gonna be returnable. Dylan feeling it a little bit now. Scott,
26:02
he made that field going. He kicks a kicks one
26:05
through the end zone for a touchback, and now we're
26:07
gonna see Kayt and Salter in that Colorado offense back
26:10
aap first and ten from their own twenty five yard line.
26:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing when you have a positive play like that,
26:15
the impact that has on your kicker, on your team,
26:19
the psyche of your team, it's just, you know, getting something.
26:22
There's something to be said for that every once in
26:24
a while.
26:26
Speaker 1: Salter's got Welch and Michael in the backfield. Michael a freshman.
26:33
Michael Welch is just a softboy. Cayten Salter, a fifty
26:36
year senior out of the Shotgun they operate on first
26:39
down in ten, hand off, Michael, he's going to be
26:43
swarmed under goodness, John new Hall alik i via Mahe
26:49
else was there? Oh, Jackson, Betty was there as well, well,
26:51
Trio of you.
26:52
Speaker 2: Well it it was a run blitz all the way
26:54
and they were just they were, you know, playing for
26:56
that zone rate and I mean that play had no
26:58
chance to anyone. Anyone could have taken the ball there
27:01
and they would have been smothered for a loss.
27:03
Speaker 1: Loss of two yards. Back to the twenty three second
27:05
down in twelve, Colorado clock running four twenty five to
27:08
play here in the first quarter, ten nothing Utah three
27:12
receivers on the right hand side for Salter. Now he
27:15
moves the tight end at gets to the left hand side,
27:18
claps his hands, hands it off. Tail back comes through
27:21
the hole. But maybe a yard for Hayden Poo poo
27:25
Sepolona getting some playing time here early, making the most
27:28
of it for Utah. One yard game third down and
27:30
long coming up.
27:31
Speaker 2: Just great effort there and you just see the feet moving.
27:34
You know, good things happen when you move your feet.
27:37
And it doesn't matter what position. That's the game.
27:40
Speaker 3: And you know when you get lazy with your feet,
27:43
then you hold.
27:43
Speaker 1: You get in the wrong gap. Very impressive one for
27:47
three on third down of the buffs, Utah bringing pressure
27:50
on Salter off the edge, loops one down the field.
27:52
It's caught. Very little game to sincere brown ball may
27:58
have been tipped and got a flag of the back field.
28:00
This was probably gonna be a hold on Colorado. We'll
28:02
see it's out on that edge where the pass rushers
28:06
were coming.
28:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're asking Kyle, hey, do you want this or
28:09
you want him to punt.
28:09
Speaker 1: Kyle's like, no, We'll let them punt. They got about
28:12
a yard and a half on that play. Here's the
28:14
call from a referee, Cravon Barnett.
28:20
Speaker 5: Personal fouleh face mask oh number seventy seven Apilody half
28:25
minut plied fourth down.
28:27
Speaker 1: That is the uber talented left tackle Jordan Seaton, who
28:31
is very good. He got his hands to the face
28:34
mask of oh. I think that was John Henry Daily
28:36
who was coming around the edge that time.
28:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, sometimes you get your hands up there and you
28:40
just can't let go.
28:41
Speaker 1: So fourth down and almost ten here the punt team
28:43
out for a third consecutive drive for Colorado. Carvoglo, who
28:48
is an adventure in waiting back at his own thirty
28:51
yard line. Snap his back kick is away. This is
29:00
his best kicked so far. Carvolo back pedals and takes
29:02
it at his own twenty three up the field thirty
29:05
thirty five and to the forty two yard line. He goes,
29:08
nice return, it's a seventeen or so. Make a nineteen
29:12
yard return for car Volume after a fifty one yard punt.
29:16
That's how you return a kickscott well, and he read
29:18
it right.
29:19
Speaker 2: You know, when you see that nose turnover, you just
29:21
take off running. You got to get back for the
29:23
ball because it's gonna travel, especially with that win too,
29:25
and so you know, I mean it's probably like a
29:28
twenty five yard game when you catch a ball like
29:31
that as opposed to not getting to it and letting
29:32
it bounce.
29:34
Speaker 1: So we've seen burd Fickland on three drives. What would
29:37
you like to see this time around? Actually we've seen
29:39
him on this will be his fourth drive. Yeah, we've
29:41
seen him on three and they're just stacking the box
29:44
here and daring him to throw. Now they're playing coverage.
29:46
But you know, so I'd run the ball again. If
29:48
I'm a Utah sprinkle the right hand side on first
29:50
and ten for the forty two fickland with way Shawn Parker.
29:54
He hands at the Parker, he tries the right side
29:56
second level fifty forty five forty he's in the open
29:59
field thirty five twenty fifteen ten five touchdown house tall
30:04
way Shot Parker.
30:09
Speaker 3: Wyshan just keeps running.
30:10
Speaker 2: He ran all the way down the field, all the
30:11
way across the end z. You know, that was one
30:14
of the things I really wanted to see someone step
30:16
up other than the cornerback running to football. And you know,
30:20
Colorado played coverage there. They didn't have a guy at
30:23
the line of scrimmage. If they got burned on it
30:25
great called great execution. And I love those touchdowns where
30:28
no because they don't get touched, you know. And he
30:31
outran a guy who looked like he had.
30:32
Speaker 1: Him on the edge. So he showed a nice burst
30:34
there in the open field. One play fifty eight yards
30:37
thirteen seconds for Wayshan Parker to find the house. That's
30:42
a Pepsi touchdown for Utah. The pat by Dylan Curtis
30:45
up and good. So Utah has had a sixty three
30:48
yard touchdown run by their quarterback and a fifty eight
30:51
yard touchdown run by their tailback, and they leave it
30:54
now seventeen to nothing. Yeah, and this is just.
30:57
Speaker 2: So well executed and Wasyshan makes this a few full
31:00
like dip to the inside and then he goes to
31:02
the outside.
31:03
Speaker 1: I mean, beautiful play.
31:04
Speaker 2: It just shows him burst and he just kept running,
31:07
which I loved. Just such a such a fun thing
31:10
to watch and see. And you know, you need you need,
31:13
you need guys to be there. You need that running game,
31:16
and you need it more than just your quarterback doing it.
31:19
Speaker 1: Colorado's giving up one hundred and eighty eight yards on
31:21
the ground for each game this year. Utah has already
31:25
got one hundred and fifty two. We're still in the
31:26
first quarter.
31:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can kind of see why Colorado's struggling.
31:31
They put eight guys up in the box or seven,
31:34
depending on what the backfield formation was, and kind of
31:37
stopping Utah a little bit. And as soon as they
31:39
go to coverage that there's just not that extra guy.
31:41
They don't get off blocks and Utah takes it to
31:44
the house.
31:45
Speaker 1: Went and Gibson back deep to receive his kick. That
31:47
touchdown a Pepsi touchdown. Phil At Curtis kicking it again. Man,
31:54
look at that leg. What's his dad call him Bill
31:57
Zillim And that's what his dad's got on the back
31:59
of his jersey. And Dylan Curtis using that right leg
32:02
tonight with a big breeze in his face. Defense will
32:05
come to the field this time around. Brought to you
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by our friends in Dota. So seventeen to nothing Utah
32:11
two fifty three to play here in the first quarter.
32:14
Speaker 2: Seems like a lot of electricity from this team. Special teams, offense, defense.
32:19
You know, you make a couple of plays on special
32:21
teams like that, and it's just boy, it's a backbreaker
32:23
to the other team, and it just does so much
32:25
for your your energy and your emotion, your psyche as
32:28
a team when you get those plays.
32:31
Speaker 3: Beautiful empty backfield.
32:32
Speaker 1: Five pass catchers in the formation. Now for Caden Salter
32:36
first and tent from his own twenty five blitz off
32:38
the edge, throws outside caught. That's Michael out beyond the
32:41
thirty to the thirty one yard line. Cam Michael just
32:44
sat down in some space and Cayden Salter read the
32:46
blitz with the opposite way he picked up six.
32:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you can have blitzed, you know, you can't
32:50
give him an easy out like that. And that was
32:52
just way too easy for him to You know, you
32:54
got to make him get to the second level.
32:56
Speaker 1: You got to make him hold the ball so you
32:58
can get to him. It's called coordination. Valan Hayden to
33:02
the ball game again. Five pass catchers. You gotta look
33:06
at this formation, oh boy, six pass catchers in the
33:09
formations and Salter's gonna keep it himself if you wrapped
33:13
up and take it down about a yard. Shy in
33:15
the first down made the tackle. That was something out
33:19
of the ordinary. You don't see everything.
33:20
Speaker 2: And this was the daffy duck offense that we used
33:22
to ran the duck offense when I was at Utah.
33:25
Speaker 1: Spread them all out and run the ball up the middle.
33:28
Third down and one from the thirty four, Salter calls
33:32
his own number and dives forward, and he'll have first
33:35
down yardis that's always dangerous when you reach that ball
33:37
out and dive forward. But got the yard in a
33:40
half he needed. Colorado keeps the drive alive.
33:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta make him pay when they stick that
33:44
head over the line like that, and put that ball
33:46
out right there. You gotta just gotta nail the guys.
33:50
That's what you love as a middle linebacker, free shot
33:53
on what we were talking about you were a quarterback.
33:54
I know, That's why I never did stuff like that.
33:57
I'm one of those guys hitting me.
33:58
Speaker 1: Salter the pass, taking a shot down the field, they
34:00
intercept it, intercept it. Tayo Johnson, playing center field, came
34:06
over and picked it off at the Utah thirty five.
34:11
What a great read by Tao. Johnson had the quarterback
34:14
size the whole way and grabbed it before the receiver
34:17
for an interception. That is the first forced Utah turnover
34:21
in more than two hundred and thirty minutes of football.
34:24
Their last turnover was the Texas Tech game, and they
34:28
get one right there.
34:29
Speaker 2: And on one of the fewer occasions Utah's in his
34:31
own and so often those safeties they just don't get
34:34
the right depth and leverage. And you can see Tao
34:37
just perfectly reads this ball from the jump and it
34:40
just has a great angle on it all the.
34:41
Speaker 1: Way I do. Dave Spataford would have that number two
34:44
hundred and thirty four minutes and thirteen seconds since the
34:47
last turnover forced by the Utah defense. Daniel Bray in
34:51
the backfield with Bird Ficklin. Bird's gonna roll to his right,
34:54
dump it in the flat to Bray. He's got the
34:56
forty forty five. He's out of bounds of the fifty
34:59
yard line after a game twelve, first completion of the
35:03
night for Bird. Fickland goes for twelve yards.
35:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a nice little run pass option there, and
35:08
Bray just slips out and out. You know, he looks
35:10
like he's gonna be a blocker and he's not. But
35:12
I'll say you you get the ball in his hands,
35:14
that kid has some juice. He's electric. Daniel bray Man,
35:18
he's got some juice.
35:20
Speaker 1: Well way. Shawn Parker has caught his breath after the
35:22
fifty eight yard touchdown. He's back of the game. First
35:25
in ten Utah. Here for their own forty nine yard line.
35:28
Parker's at the ball game. Bird Fickland's your quarterback. Ryan
35:32
Davis split wide to the left hand side, hand off
35:37
Parker fifty forty five forty down to the Colorado thirty
35:43
eight yard line goes Way Shawn Parker. Ben Bennison abe
35:47
to tackle after a thirteen yard game.
35:49
Speaker 2: You know this counterplay and it's just fun to watch
35:52
those offensive linemen Paul and then they just find a
35:55
guy and just latch onto him, and there's just this
35:57
crease that just opens up.
35:58
Speaker 1: Just so fun to watch. Two tight ends, two wide receivers,
36:04
and a tailback. They move everybody around them. On first
36:07
and ten, hand off again to Parker, bounces off a
36:11
tackle that picks up a yard to about the thirty seven.
36:14
Jeremiah Brown, the linebacker led the charge and that might
36:16
be oh and then a late flag comes in.
36:18
Speaker 3: It's gonna be on Wasyshot. I think he kind of.
36:20
Speaker 1: I think he stepped on somebody down there or stood over.
36:24
Speaker 2: Guy, kind of slammed him to the ground. I don't
36:26
think he liked it, and he kind of slammed back.
36:29
Speaker 1: Keaton Wade was the person that was fouled. Here's the
36:32
referee after the play is over.
36:35
Speaker 5: Unsportsmle like conduct on the offense number one. It's a
36:40
fifteen yard pillowy second down. That is the first unsportsman
36:46
like conduct on number one.
36:48
Speaker 2: And it's just it's one of those situations where you're
36:51
the second guy and you kind of get caught to
36:54
Wasshwan you know, they tackle him and then they just
36:57
kind of slam him to the ground, and he really
37:00
took exception.
37:00
Speaker 3: To it, you know, and I don't blame him.
37:04
Speaker 1: Second down in twenty four, all the way back of
37:06
the Utah forty eight yard line, Fickland and Nakari Rodgers.
37:09
Fickland get a throw taking a shot down the field.
37:11
He's got a bad open all over it is JJ
37:14
Buchanan and he comes up with the catch. Now they're
37:18
gonna say incomplete. I he was.
37:21
Speaker 2: He was behind the defensive back and the guy just
37:24
tugged on him. That's what I thought too, Scott.
37:26
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, he's holding his song right there.
37:29
It's like, how in the world is that not PI?
37:31
Goodness great?
37:32
Speaker 2: I just wonder if the prime effect over there on
37:35
that sideline. He's like, well, we can't call a PI
37:38
on the greatest defensive.
37:39
Speaker 1: Back in the NFL. Ever, Well, he's not playing, I know,
37:42
but it's it's just kind of the It's one thing
37:46
if he's playing, but he's standing on that sideline.
37:48
Speaker 3: How was just degregious?
37:49
Speaker 1: Fourteen seconds to play in the first seventeen nothing Utah
37:52
third down to twenty four for their own forty eights.
37:55
They empty the backfield. Utah one for four on third down,
37:59
and now Fickland pump football. It's loose on the deck.
38:02
Colorado thinks they've got it right near midfield. Who fell
38:05
on that football? It might be right. They're unpiling it
38:10
right now at the Utah forty nine yard line. Fickland
38:12
may have fallen on it. He did. It'll be fourth
38:16
down here and that will take us to the end
38:18
of the first quarter. Well, it's been interesting, that's for sure.
38:22
Here in this first fifteen minutes, it's been a freshman.
38:26
You're gonna get the highs and the lows and the
38:28
oh my goodness, plays.
38:31
Speaker 5: Fumbled by the offense, recovered by the offense. It will
38:33
be fourth down. That is the end of the first quarter.
38:36
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. That takes us to the end of
38:38
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I just need a little bit of that chill knocked off.
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Let's get Matt Smith on the horn. Matt gets got
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at any of their six locations. Minky cotur. How about
39:25
these first quarter numbers? Wow, Utah two hundred three total
39:28
yards Colorado eight, Utah thirty six yards passing Colorado four.
39:33
Utah one hundred and sixty seven yards on the ground
39:36
Colorado four. Utah only ran five more plays Scott on
39:41
a possession was dead even seven and a half to
39:43
seven and a half. And it was big plays.
39:45
Speaker 2: You know, that's where Utah just had some big runs
39:48
and big plays. Had the big play on the fake
39:52
punts and you.
39:54
Speaker 1: Know it's again, it's not about the numbers. It's about
39:56
what you do with them. And Utah has put the
39:58
ball in the end zone very nicely. So second quarteraction underway.
40:04
We're just about ready to go. You tab will bring
40:07
the punt team out. I'm not sure they'll fake this
40:09
time around on fourth and twenty four, but we'll see
40:12
last time out, and Ryan Phillips flipped it ahead to
40:15
Dall and Bentley. They picked up the first down. Yeah,
40:17
it's such a long yard. It's get the first down,
40:19
you know.
40:21
Speaker 2: Get good field position here, play good defense, get the
40:23
ball back again with good field position, and off you go.
40:25
Speaker 1: Kuanel Fara Khan stands in his own ten yard line.
40:29
Ryan Phillips kind of dueling. Ausie punters here tonight. Phillip
40:34
stands at his own thirty nine. Colorado doesn't appear to
40:37
be bringing any pressure. A little punt safety here, Plenty
40:41
of time to punt for Phillips. He'll take his time
40:44
and get it away, end over and kick angling toward
40:47
the sideline. Farah Gohn Farah catches and backs up and
40:50
takes it right about the ten yard lines with a
40:52
ninety yard field forty one yard putt, no return, and
40:56
Cayden Salter has not had a great deal of success
40:58
so far here tonight. Now he's gonna be back up
41:00
against the north end zone. Yeah, and hoping that north
41:02
end zone can get really loud.
41:03
Speaker 2: It's it has an impact on things, and they understand.
41:07
Speaker 1: It down there.
41:08
Speaker 2: Those folks are well well versed in what really creates
41:12
a problem for everyone knows it.
41:13
Speaker 1: Taf you can hear it. I can hear it now.
41:16
Nor then zone striped on red on the outside, black
41:19
down the middle tonight as they striped the stadium here,
41:21
Ryce ecles well to the tail. Bad saltered the shotgun
41:26
from his own five yard line Utah, showing five of
41:28
the line ocean man across the formation for the bus.
41:33
Salter's gonna play action pass a lot of time, throwing
41:36
it down the middle of the Field's got a man
41:38
out there and complete trying to get that ball deep
41:42
that time to let's see who that was. Seventeen boy,
41:49
I don't have on my board right now, but we'll
41:51
put him on there now. Isaiah Heringe, Yeah, that's an
41:55
interesting defense. It's actually an inverted cover.
41:57
Speaker 2: Two and a year ago, you remember Colorado hit the
42:00
slant route for a touchdown and you talked just executed
42:04
the defense so much better.
42:05
Speaker 3: Right, there's really nowhere.
42:06
Speaker 5: To throw the ball.
42:07
Speaker 1: Two backs in the backfield on second down in ten
42:09
for the ten that motion bill are out of the backfield.
42:11
Play action again, pressure coming on. Salter rolling to his right,
42:15
throwing down the field. Ball batted at the line of
42:16
scrimmage and incomplete Alikiviama. He got his hands up to
42:20
deflect it. There's a flag in about the two yard
42:23
line and we'll see who this is on. It may
42:25
be a hold on the left side of that offensive
42:27
line for Colorado. Yeah, they're gonna look to the Utah
42:30
sideline and see what they want to do. I think
42:32
Utah is gonna decline this and bring up third down
42:35
to ten. It's only half the distance, so you're not
42:38
gonna gain much holding.
42:41
Speaker 5: Offense number seven seven. Wow, that Philody has decline third down.
42:46
Speaker 1: The All Conference left tackle Jordan's seat really having a
42:50
hard time with John Henry Daily tonight. He's got to
42:52
face mask it now a hold.
42:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's such a good job on that defense
42:56
because there was really nowhere. You know, the quarterback flushes
42:59
out to the white side all the time.
43:01
Speaker 3: Utah has really dialed into rushing that direction.
43:06
Speaker 1: Salter breaks the huddle, stands at his own five third
43:08
down and ten, the north end zone gets loud. The
43:12
Ups are one for five on third down. Here we go.
43:16
It's gonna be a delayer. They gotta call it timeout,
43:19
play clock going down. Colorado is gonna take the time out,
43:25
Time out, Colorado.
43:28
Speaker 5: It's their first and half. It will be thirty seconds
43:31
thirty second time out.
43:33
Speaker 1: Will allow me to tell you that Slackwater Pizza is
43:36
a great sponsor of the University of Utah football, whether
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it's the downtown location Provo, Sandy Harriman, up North and
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Augden as well, great spot for friends and family gathering
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for pizza, beer and Moore and Slackwater. It's seventeen to
43:49
nothing Utah. Here in rice ecles fourteen thirty eight to
43:52
play in the first half in Colorado, facing a third
43:55
and ten for their own ten yard line. Yeah, and
43:57
they know Utah is probably gonna dial in a a pressure.
44:02
Speaker 3: Look here, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to.
44:04
Speaker 2: Throw some kind of quick screen or something that hits
44:07
fast and see if a guy can't break a loose
44:09
to get the first down.
44:11
Speaker 1: Maybe you keep it simple here for Salter. We'll see
44:16
one for five on third down so far today, not
44:19
a great deal of success. In third and long here
44:21
Michael Welch will be the tailback receiver of the right slot,
44:26
tied into the left slot to receiver split wide left
44:29
and right. Utah is gonna show pressure here on Salter
44:33
third down in ten. Here we go back pedals to
44:37
pass Salter from his own end zone, throwing it long
44:41
and incomplete. Nobody in the neighborhood that's gonna be grounded.
44:44
Gotta be ground and that's gonna be in the end zone,
44:46
and that's gonna be a safety. There was nobody on
44:48
that far side of the field that will be grounding
44:51
a safety. And Utah's defense in the north end zone
44:54
we'll get credit for it. Here we go out, there's
44:57
the flag and that's gonna be a safety on Colorado.
45:02
Speaker 3: Well, and it's just it's great execution.
45:05
Speaker 1: By the way they rush, you know, there's no out
45:07
for the quarterback.
45:08
Speaker 3: Can't go wide, he can't go off the middle, and
45:10
it's just it's just.
45:11
Speaker 5: Intentional brownie offense.
45:14
Speaker 1: Number three. The building happened to end.
45:17
Speaker 5: Zone results in a safety.
45:21
Speaker 2: So the north end zone got their money's worth tonight.
45:24
They like, we got two points tonight. We did it
45:27
right here.
45:28
Speaker 1: Well, right now, it's the north end zone. Two Colorado nothing.
45:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, the fans they love that. And a good
45:35
call right there, and just a great execution by Utah.
45:38
Speaker 1: Morgan Scalley has brought pressure repeatedly on third down here
45:41
on Cayden Salter tonight.
45:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's dialed into Salter's weaknesses and his strengths.
45:46
Speaker 1: And I'm calling a pretty good game right now. Nineteen
45:49
to nothing, Utah, Colorado will kick from their own twenty
45:52
yard line. This will be a returnable kick. You know,
45:55
it's kind of be frustrating.
45:56
Speaker 2: You go into a bye week, you have extra time
45:58
to play a team who's coming up off an emotional,
46:01
tough loss, and it's like and to come out and
46:04
to kind of play, you know, as lackluster as maybe
46:07
Colorado has at this point, it's gotta be somewhat.
46:09
Speaker 1: Disappoint by the way. Credit John new Hall and Jackson
46:13
Benny for bringing the pressure on Psalter on that third
46:16
down that forced the intentional grounding in the safety.
46:19
Speaker 2: And you know, if I was coaching him, I wouldn't
46:24
have had him drop back and hold on to the ball,
46:26
knowing Utah is gonna just bring the house, but you
46:30
can it.
46:30
Speaker 1: Not the Hall of Famer from Kansas City, but the
46:32
place kicker will kick this one off from his own twenty.
46:36
That's a good name right there, Bill, But that is
46:38
a good one. Utah is going to return it. They
46:40
let it hit now. Rashaan Glover takes it in about
46:43
the twelve to the outside. He goes he's trying to
46:45
get the edge and you go out a bounds of
46:47
the twenty eight yard line. I'm not sure why they
46:49
let that ball hit. It's just time.
46:52
Speaker 2: You know, you lose time and you guys have to
46:55
hold blocks a lot longer and you just don't quite
46:57
get the return.
46:57
Speaker 1: You should time out on the field. Utah's off. It
47:00
comes to the field when we return to rice Ecles
47:02
Tonight Homecoming Saturday Nights, it's Utah nineteen and Colorado. Nothing
47:07
for the Big o'tires broadcast booth. It's Utah Football from
47:10
ESPN seven hundred to the Youth Sports Radio Network. No
47:13
Jarrod will give you threading for that last safety and
47:16
sacked by the Utes. Jack John hu Hall and Jackson
47:19
Betty share that sack sly, what did you see?
47:21
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, perfect defense. The defense is playing with
47:25
an extra tooth.
47:26
Speaker 3: Stay. I don't know what's going on tonight. They are
47:28
playing at a high level.
47:30
Speaker 4: Jonah Hall comes off the edge right there, blitz big
47:32
up VPU.
47:34
Speaker 3: The running back did.
47:34
Speaker 1: Not want any parts of Jonah Hall.
47:37
Speaker 4: He slipped inside, didn't even touch him and put all
47:39
the pressure on Salter. Salter expected the running back to
47:42
get at least get a chip on him.
47:44
Speaker 1: He does it.
47:44
Speaker 3: Jonah Hall's right in his face.
47:46
Speaker 4: Quarterback freaks out, shuts the ball to the other side
47:48
of the field.
47:49
Speaker 3: They run in a flood all.
47:50
Speaker 1: The way to the right and throws it back to
47:51
the left safety.
47:53
Speaker 4: Great defense there, great scheme and called up by Morgan scout.
47:56
Speaker 1: That sideline update brought to you by Ken Garth. We
47:59
hear you on nineteen Colorado nothing first and ten utes
48:03
at their twenty eight yard line. Can we just keep
48:04
the score this for the rest of nineteen to zero?
48:07
Oh's that's the number of Scott Mitchell Warmer. That was
48:10
his number. How often is a game at nineteen Very rare?
48:12
I know, very rare. I don't think it's gonna stay
48:17
here though. I don't either. Daniel Bray in the backfield
48:20
with Bird Fickland on first down and ten, if you're
48:22
just joining us. Devin dan Pierre injured, didn't get the
48:25
start tonight for Utah. Bird Fickland speed option to the
48:28
outside keeps it picks up a yard to the twenty
48:32
nine yard line. He probably should have pitched that as
48:34
they ran the speed option into the near boundary.
48:36
Speaker 2: I wouldn't even say it's a probably thing. It's like,
48:39
what do you I guess he saw the guy on
48:41
the outside. Yeah, I gotta give give him the pitchman
48:45
a chance.
48:47
Speaker 1: Second down to nine. Fickland by himself. Now he'll bring
48:50
Bray in motion. Daniel Bray now Bird Fickland forty forty
48:55
five fifty and down at the Colorado forty eight yard line.
48:59
That time he kept and that was the smart move.
49:01
Bray got blown up, Pickland kept it finish at the
49:04
safety made the tackle and that's a Utah first down
49:07
right at midfield. Yeah.
49:08
Speaker 2: See, that's that counter off of the fly sweep. And
49:10
you know, play has been really good for Utah. And
49:13
that's what happens when you have that fly sweep work.
49:16
It opens up a lot of other plays.
49:17
Speaker 1: Fickland now with ninety eight yards rushing tonight, that was
49:20
twenty one yards. He'll pass here on first down, throw
49:22
to the outside, caught and oh up the sideline. That's
49:25
Ryan Davis thirty and out of bounds of the Colorado
49:28
twenty one. The defensive back thought he had the interception
49:31
going the other way and Davis held onto it. Oh Man,
49:35
that was that close to being a pick six. Instead,
49:38
it's a pitch and catch of twenty eight yards.
49:40
Speaker 2: And he didn't really know what to do there. Great
49:43
conference concentration by Ryan to even make that. I think
49:47
he was surprised. He still had the ball.
49:49
Speaker 1: On the edge of the Canyon View Credit Union red
49:51
zone for the first time tonight, Ray motions out Fickland
49:56
looking to throw down the sideline. Reel wrap five FO
50:00
three and out of bounds, No, into the end zone,
50:02
touchdown JJ B. Cannon. He walked the tight rope and
50:07
stayed in bounds. What twenty two yard touchdown from Bird Ficklin.
50:12
Speaker 3: That's a great throw right here. I love this route.
50:15
Speaker 2: It's kind of a screen and go and it's the
50:17
guy that slips up the sideline. The first guy goes deep,
50:21
second guy slips up the sideline. It's just it's such
50:23
a beautiful play and of course you know, and he just,
50:26
oh yeah, just slips up the sideline.
50:28
Speaker 1: He sold it well too. He pumped that first one
50:31
and that gave him time to get up the sideline.
50:33
JJ bu cannon well into the end zone. Down for
50:36
a third time this year.
50:38
Speaker 2: And a nice thing about it is he throws it
50:40
on a rope like it's he just really oh yeah,
50:44
it looks to a great job there.
50:46
Speaker 1: Boom and Buchanan. Man, he says, like I'm getting in
50:49
the end zone here another Pepsi touchdown, this time through
50:52
the air. Four plays, seventy two yards if Buchanon from
50:57
Ficklin and utah'sis we had to lead now to twenty
51:01
six to nothing. Time out on the field. We're back
51:03
to rise ecl Stadium next with twelve fifty to play
51:06
in the first half. All Utah Tonight, you taught twenty
51:09
six color on a nothing. This is Utah Football for
51:12
ESPN seven hundred and a youth sports radio network. The
51:15
night's game being brought to you by Pepsi. Remember food
51:18
deserves Pepsi. I guess we'd call that a Bert Fickland
51:22
drive four play is seventy two yards. Fickland threw for
51:25
fifty and ran for twenty two. He accounted for every
51:27
yard on that drive. Scott, Well, what was.
51:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great and a great play calling kind
51:32
of the counter off of the fly sweep.
51:35
Speaker 1: He saw a law fly sweep from Daniel Bray.
51:37
Speaker 2: Now now there's a counter the other way, and that's
51:41
that's kind of the adjustment or the evolution of things.
51:43
And then I really love to throw to JJ Buchanic
51:46
because it's on a line. It's just and it's like
51:49
it's a throw with confidence and it's not the kind
51:52
of hoped it's like I believe in this.
51:55
Speaker 1: Play and I'm gonna make it happen. I love it.
51:57
You know, sometimes, Scott, the stat sheet doesn't tell you
51:59
the story of the gain. Like last week you a
52:01
look at it and thought Utah won or what was
52:03
winning the game? Well, I think it does tonight. You
52:05
taught two hundred and seventy five yards Colorado minus two.
52:09
Speaker 3: They're minus two minus two. Yeah, it feels about like.
52:12
Speaker 1: That Utah plus two seventy seven right now, Jike's here's
52:18
a Dylan Curtis kickoff. It's not going to be returned
52:22
by Quentin Gibson. Caden Salter will bring the offense out
52:26
first in tent or will it be Kate and Salter?
52:28
Speaker 3: You know, Sly said something in our pregame show I
52:30
think is very fitting.
52:31
Speaker 1: He says, you know, you can't wait to you can't
52:34
have a sluggish start.
52:35
Speaker 3: You got to start fast.
52:37
Speaker 1: And you can just tell this team one to get
52:40
the bad taste out of their mouth from last week.
52:43
And they his team's shown up so far in this game,
52:45
and they've been here often and early. And he is
52:48
Kate and Salter back out again first intent from his
52:51
own twenty five. He's got the tail back Michael Welch
52:53
and two receivers left, the two receivers right. Utah's defense
52:57
has been downhill and aggressive from the jump. Here tonight,
53:01
Salter out of the shotgun. Ocean's a man out of
53:03
the backfield. He'll pass pressure in his face, chasing him down.
53:06
He goes ball thrown outside of the way. Did they
53:09
get the sack? They did not. Logan Fano got him,
53:12
took him to the ground, but he released the ball
53:14
through it away before the sack could happen. Second then, yeah,
53:17
that's a dangerous throw right there too.
53:19
Speaker 2: I mean he's about to get hit. If that ball
53:21
is stopped at all, it can be picked off. He's
53:24
very fortunate just to get it out of.
53:25
Speaker 1: Bun Morgan Scalley just keeps bringing pressure here on Cayden Salter.
53:29
Second down and ten. Three receivers right this time, one
53:31
to the left hand side. Tailback is Michael Welch. Salter
53:38
hands it, throws that play action pass, nicely done to
53:41
the inside wide receiver on his feet. Still he's got
53:43
first down yardage now to about the thirty seven yard line.
53:46
That's Sincere Brown. What a throw?
53:48
Speaker 3: What a catch?
53:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, and catch more than anything. I mean, the coverage
53:51
is just right there. Smith's Note's all over it. He's like,
53:54
how did I not get that right there? And tough
53:57
yards though, I mean, you make him earn everything. I mean,
54:00
you know, yeah, they got a completion, but it's a
54:02
hard you know, a hard one.
54:04
Speaker 1: It is a get first shunk play tonight for Colorado.
54:07
Get him on the positive side of the ledger first
54:10
and ten for their own thirty eighth Salter to pass again.
54:13
Pressure coming again. He's being chased, sprints to the outside
54:17
to his left and he's just gonna throw it away
54:19
out of bounds. Utah probably should have had another sack
54:21
right there. John Henry Daily was in the area. He's
54:25
wondering how he didn't page up Caden Salter and get
54:29
his double digit sack, his tenth sack of the year.
54:31
But he did not. Tray just slept when he got
54:33
right there.
54:33
Speaker 2: But one of the things you know, Utah really watches
54:36
is where does a quarterback like to escape. Salter likes
54:40
to escape outside, and they design things to force him
54:43
not to get outside.
54:44
Speaker 1: Second down and ten, he backs up into the shotgun again.
54:46
Utah with four and now five of the line of scrimmage. Well,
54:49
they bring pressure again. Three receivers lined up to the
54:52
right hand side. They handed the welch and he's gonna
54:54
be taken down on a run blitz. John Henry Daily
54:57
came crashing down from his defensive end spot grab him
55:00
for a one yard loss. You know, you play that
55:03
aggressive defense and you just just you just played different,
55:07
and he's just seeing a team that's just playing with
55:09
a lot of confidence playing downhill.
55:12
Speaker 2: It's just so fun to watch when when these defense,
55:15
this defense just flies around.
55:16
Speaker 1: That's now thirteen tackles we lost all the year for
55:19
Henry Daily for the d ncuble. A third down of
55:22
eleven here for the Bocks for their own thirty seven
55:25
Salter and the gun. Utah bringing pressure again on Caden Salter.
55:30
He's gonna roll to his right, hooking down the field, scrambling,
55:33
throwing it away out of bounds, and Utahs defense does
55:35
their job again. John hu haul right in Salter's space
55:39
and he just had to throw it at a bounds.
55:41
Speaker 2: It's fourth down coming up. Nice, perfect execution. You know
55:43
they get the great the great lanes in the rush.
55:46
They got pressure on him.
55:47
Speaker 1: He can't go anywhere, I mean nowhere, and then these
55:49
receivers just plaster. I mean there's nowhere enough for him
55:52
to throw the football. Carballo back to return the punt again.
55:56
Damon Graves, the butter for Colorado, has been a busy
55:58
man here tonight. Car Volo stands at his own twenty
56:02
one yard line. Buffs have three lined up to the
56:08
right hand side, a single gun or to the left
56:10
hand side. Graves takes the snap, gets the kick away.
56:14
This is a good one, angling it end over end.
56:17
Car Volo takes it at the twenty two upfield, he goes,
56:20
gets to the outside. Now back to the inside thirty
56:23
thirty five, forty whoa, he was one tackle away and
56:26
take him down at the forty one yard line on
56:29
a car Volo another nineteen yard putt return for Utah.
56:36
I just like the effort. Really.
56:38
Speaker 2: I know it's sometimes kind of chaotic and it's but man,
56:41
the dude is trying to be electric.
56:42
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Scott, I'm with you Utah. And the
56:45
putt return game hasn't really been electric since Brittain Cubby
56:49
was here. And I like Carvoluo as long as he
56:52
catches that football man.
56:54
Speaker 2: And it's not hard, like I was saying, it's not
56:56
hard if you just have to read the tip of
56:58
the ball and it'll tell you where the ball's gonna go.
57:00
Speaker 1: At the forty yard line, first down in ten way
57:02
Seawan Parker, the tailback, straight ahead run four way Shawn Parker.
57:08
He'll push the pile after about the forty four yard
57:10
line for a gain of four. It just kind of
57:12
a direct snap, wildcat run that time. Bird Ficklin, we'll
57:16
check into the ball game now and out of the
57:17
ball game, goes the big fellow Semi Taolonga, who had
57:21
two receptions in one week ago at BYU.
57:24
Speaker 2: He was a leading receiver on the team, which you
57:26
never want to have happened. It's kind of a nice
57:28
counter for the running back to go wildcat there.
57:31
Speaker 1: And Rogers the tailback. On second down and six Fickland
57:36
to pass bird fires to the outside. Hi tried to
57:39
slot that into Ryan Davis between a couple defenders. Boy,
57:42
he's got a live arm. Does bird Fickland that time?
57:45
He skided high And I.
57:47
Speaker 2: Like that, you know, because the guy can fit it
57:49
into windows and make some really big throws right there.
57:53
Speaker 1: You know. Back to that wildcat though, you know, it
57:56
saves the quarterback on some of the runs, and you
57:58
get the value of having quarterback run, you know, because
58:01
you have an extra blocker without having your quarterback run it.
58:04
Speaker 3: It's a nice nice mix up there for.
58:06
Speaker 1: You until one for five. On third down they face
58:08
a third and six right here, they stack two receivers
58:10
to the left, roll Fickland that way on third down,
58:13
fires down the field, caught JJ Buchanon again. He caught it,
58:17
slipped and fell down at the forty three of Colorado,
58:20
and that's gonna be good. For a first down. That
58:22
ball got on him quick well.
58:24
Speaker 2: And JJ, I'm just telling you he is he is
58:26
a He's a guy. They should throw the ball ton
58:28
more too, because.
58:29
Speaker 1: He can catch it. That's his third grab tonight. Here's
58:32
Fickland again, weaving in and out of traffic and being
58:34
dragged down after a one yard gain to about the
58:37
forty two yard line. Byard made the tackle for Colorado man.
58:40
Speaker 2: That's such a good run by Bert. I know it's
58:42
only for a yard, but he's really seeing.
58:44
Speaker 1: The defense setting him up, goes the inside, just almost
58:47
pops it to the outside right there. For a big game.
58:49
I like Byered a lot. He's a really good safety
58:51
for this seam is good stock to his brother's a
58:54
pretty good safety too. Second down to nine, Pickland to
58:59
pass a lot of time, good pocket. He's gonna step up,
59:01
run away from it, down to the outside. Bird's gonna
59:03
get to the forty five to the forty you and
59:05
step out of bounds at about the thirty nine nine
59:07
a light hit. They're gonna get a crack back block.
59:09
I think here on Utah, the flag comes down at
59:12
about the thirty nine, I think they're gonna get a
59:14
blind side block of the utes. Yeah, those you see it.
59:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, and those are plays that you you you, you know,
59:21
you'd love to see in the good old days. But
59:24
they just don't allow him anymore. That uh, defenseless player.
59:27
And you know, funny because the Orange SAP is kind
59:29
of one of the people.
59:31
Speaker 5: Illegal buyside block offense number ninety nine, fifteen yard penalty
59:37
from the spot of foul second down.
59:39
Speaker 1: Well, that's what happens when you put a defensive tackle
59:42
turned tight ended the ball game. He's just used to
59:44
hitting people. Yeah, and he's going out for a route,
59:47
which is crazy. How long? How long?
59:50
Speaker 3: Yeah?
59:50
Speaker 1: Oh boy? Oh that really wasn't a blind side him
59:54
in the front. He just wasn't looking.
59:56
Speaker 2: Well, it's kind of a it's a mismatch, and it
59:59
looks a lot worse than it actually is. He's holding
1:00:01
his hands up in the ear, so look, I didn't
1:00:02
do anything that bad.
1:00:03
Speaker 1: Second down in twenty one for Utah. Now back in
1:00:05
their own forty six yard line after the penalty, Fick
1:00:07
one's gonna pass. Now he's gonna keep it. He's gonna
1:00:09
run at fifty to the forty five to the forty four,
1:00:12
and down goes Bird. Fickland. He almost picked up the
1:00:15
yardage day lost. He on parks. The quarterback will make
1:00:18
the tackle to be third down in about ten and
1:00:21
a half, almost eleven here for Utah.
1:00:23
Speaker 2: And that's just a straight quarterback draw from the get go,
1:00:25
and you know, just trying to not necessarily get all
1:00:27
the yards, but just get a manageable distance. It feels
1:00:30
like Bird is getting more comfortable, more confident as this
1:00:35
game goes along. Its kind of some of that nervous
1:00:37
energy you have kind of gone out of your body.
1:00:40
Speaker 1: And eleven carries for one hundred and twelve yards. Now
1:00:42
Utah faces a third down and eleven at the Colorado
1:00:45
forty five. He'll back up into the shotgun by himself.
1:00:49
Will Fickland, Now bring a man in motion. Bird's gonna
1:00:52
drop back to pass. Good pocket for him. Looking down
1:00:54
the field, he'll scramble. Now, Bird Fickland to the forty,
1:00:57
Bird Fickland to the thirty five, to the thirty and
1:01:00
slides down after first down yard each after thirty one
1:01:03
yard line. A fourteen yard game in a Utah first
1:01:07
down for Bert Ficklin.
1:01:09
Speaker 2: You know these are things when Utah quarterbacks are playing well,
1:01:12
they just convert those third downs. And he's looking and
1:01:15
just very maturely, but he chews up a lot of
1:01:19
ground in a hurry.
1:01:19
Speaker 3: He's this kid's pretty fast.
1:01:21
Speaker 1: Now. Burt Ficklin is a longer quarterback. He's about six
1:01:26
to one. That's about three and a half four inches
1:01:28
taller than Devin dan Pierre. If you'll stand in the
1:01:31
shotgun right now by himself, bring a man in motion.
1:01:36
Now roll to the right hand side. He's gonna be
1:01:38
a student body right for Fickland. Twenty five twenty and
1:01:41
out of bounds of the nineteen yard line, and now
1:01:43
a flag flies in Lates. I think we're gonna have
1:01:46
another block on Utah illegally blocking down field.
1:01:51
Speaker 2: Has a twelve yard game and just such a beautiful play,
1:01:54
you know. I mean, Birt Fickland goes on a nice
1:01:57
stroll for a twelve yard game untouched.
1:02:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see what this flag is. Deon Sanders out
1:02:05
on the field having a conversation. But I think this
1:02:07
one's gonna come back. Yeah.
1:02:09
Speaker 2: I really like that call though. It's just a nice play.
1:02:12
It was nicely executed right up until the very end.
1:02:15
Don't know why it's necessary for someone to make the
1:02:18
block there. We're actually getting the replay here right now,
1:02:21
and here's the call.
1:02:22
Speaker 5: After the play is over a sportsman like conduct offense
1:02:27
number seventy one. I'll be a fifteen yard pillarty. They'll
1:02:31
be first and ten for Utah. God is the sport first,
1:02:35
esportsman like condo cloud for number.
1:02:40
Speaker 1: It's Caleb Lowmon seventy one. Yeah, I don't know. That's
1:02:46
the second and sportsman like tonight called on Utah first
1:02:52
and ten back of the thirty four yard line. Daniel
1:02:54
bring in the backfield after the play, so they get
1:02:57
the first down and then they back them up fifteen yards.
1:03:01
Clock running seven and a half to play. Here the
1:03:02
first half, twenty six to nothing. Utah on the move again.
1:03:06
Bray stands next to Fickland. Three pass catchers in the pattern. Now,
1:03:09
Bray moves to the right hand side. Play clock down
1:03:11
to five. Ficklin hands to Bray, and Bray's gonna be dumbs.
1:03:16
That's going to be a loss of six yards all
1:03:19
the way back to the forty yard line. Colorado knew
1:03:22
that one was coming and they made a great play.
1:03:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looked like Bird wanted to hold onto that
1:03:26
ball and take it and whatever. Bray just clamped down
1:03:31
on it and said, now I got this. It's like
1:03:33
quarterback says, hey, let me read these not you. You know,
1:03:35
if I give you the ball, take it, but don't
1:03:37
take it from them.
1:03:38
Speaker 1: Larry Johnson the third made the tackle on the play.
1:03:43
Rogers in Now second down and sixteen Bird Fickland to pass.
1:03:47
He's going to keep it himself again this time breaks
1:03:49
the tackle and breaks another tackle and then ends up
1:03:52
picking up about five down to the thirty six yard
1:03:54
light Byered with another tackle. We'll have to look at
1:03:56
Byard's numbers. He's gonna end up with double digit tackles
1:03:59
here the first half for Colorado.
1:04:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's kind of reading Daniel Bray right there. It
1:04:03
comes out of you know, the backfield. If he doesn't,
1:04:06
you know, it's a big play there. Quarterback draw all
1:04:09
the way. Can't can't fault the call.
1:04:11
Speaker 1: Fickland now with one hundred and forty one yards rushing
1:04:13
for Utah. Wow, third down to twelve from the Colorado
1:04:20
thirty six yard line, empty backfield for Fickland. Four down
1:04:23
linemen for Colorado looking down the field, throwing down the
1:04:27
Field's got a man open down the field caught. Did
1:04:29
he get his feet in?
1:04:30
Speaker 3: Yes, he did.
1:04:32
Speaker 1: That was Larry Simmons inside the twenty down to the
1:04:36
Colorado seventeen yard line, and that was a rope on
1:04:39
that sideline.
1:04:40
Speaker 3: It was a frozen rope and it's on time.
1:04:43
Speaker 1: You know, the ball.
1:04:43
Speaker 2: He's reading the coverage and they have vertical routes right there,
1:04:47
and I mean that's a tight as tight though right there.
1:04:50
Speaker 3: That's a money throw.
1:04:51
Speaker 1: Just the sixth catch of the year for Larry Simmons.
1:04:53
He's becoming more a part of his offense as the
1:04:55
week's go on. Inside the Canyon View Credit Union Red
1:04:58
Zone for the first time tonight, pickland in the shotgun motion.
1:05:02
Man across the formation is Daniel Bray down the middle.
1:05:05
They throw the football to the end zone, nearly intercepted.
1:05:08
Oh that was one he'd like to have back. He
1:05:10
had Dallan Bentley opened for a second, but a safety
1:05:12
in a corner were there and that was nearly picked
1:05:15
off and I.
1:05:15
Speaker 3: Couldn't quite see it.
1:05:16
Speaker 2: It almost looked like it got tipped, because yeah, he did,
1:05:20
You're right.
1:05:20
Speaker 1: I was like, is that because he throws the ball
1:05:23
to more velocity than that one. Yeah. Defensive lineman got
1:05:27
that just got a touch too, to the line of scrimmage.
1:05:29
Second down in ten. That's too bad. I'd like to
1:05:31
see where that one went. It might be the touchdown.
1:05:34
Bray comes in motion. Picklan's gonna keep it himself on
1:05:36
the right side to the fifteen, shaking in bacon inside
1:05:39
the ten and down to the nine yard line. Boy,
1:05:42
he broke somebody's ankles at about the eleven. DJ McKenny
1:05:45
made the tackle. Third down and short coming up.
1:05:48
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what was impressive about that play, and
1:05:50
that was Spencer Fano. He blocked his guy and blocked
1:05:54
this guy and blocked his guy and blocked him almost
1:05:57
out of bounce.
1:05:57
Speaker 1: He comes on a.
1:05:58
Speaker 2: Paul right here and he's just blocking. He just keeps
1:06:00
going and going and go. I mean that guy just
1:06:02
flies right out of this screen. That very impressive.
1:06:06
Speaker 1: Here we go, short yard each formation, Jumbo said. Fickland
1:06:09
goes under center Rogers the tailback. Now Fickland's gonna change
1:06:13
the play. At the line of scrimmage, Utah three out
1:06:15
of eight. On third down, Berd turns, gives it to Rogers,
1:06:18
breaks one tackle to the five and down to the
1:06:21
four yard line. He goes that's a gain of five
1:06:24
and a first and goal down for Utah.
1:06:26
Speaker 2: And it's that that power eye formation, and it's almost
1:06:31
like you're trying to draw him off sides, and then
1:06:33
when they don't, they just tell the one back to
1:06:35
go where the defender is and he shifts over.
1:06:37
Speaker 1: You got more people. It's great, great design, great execution.
1:06:40
Clock running at four and a half to play before halftime.
1:06:42
Verst in goal, Utah already leading twenty six to nothing.
1:06:46
Fickland again under center, moving on the left hand side.
1:06:50
Pickland's going to change the play. They've got the big back.
1:06:55
How long? A blocking hand off, Rogers toward the goal,
1:06:58
lining down and about one yard line after a three
1:07:01
yard game. See and this is the where't this like?
1:07:05
We missed this for a couple of weeks? I really
1:07:07
like this. It's like they go, we're gonna run the football,
1:07:10
We're gonna put more guys in there than you can block,
1:07:12
and we're just gonna come at you. Second down in goal.
1:07:16
How long again, Rogers behind him, Fickland under center, Colorado
1:07:21
crowds the line, Rogers right side, bouncing end zone touchdown.
1:07:26
Lacari Rodgers fives the end zone for the seventh time
1:07:30
this season. And this bird ficklick led offense by Utah
1:07:36
is absolutely rolling over the Buffaloes tonight.
1:07:40
Speaker 2: And that was where you go power eye to the
1:07:42
left the line everyone up over there and they go, well,
1:07:44
we'll go back to the week's side, and there's always
1:07:46
a hole there. And you got got nice blockers, great playing.
1:07:50
I love this power eye run formation. It's it's hard
1:07:54
to stop.
1:07:55
Speaker 1: Pat coming up after that Pepsi touchdown dealing Curtis on
1:07:59
to attempt another Pat here for Utah. He's only missed
1:08:02
one this year, and he doesn't miss that one. Drills
1:08:04
it through sixteen plays, sixty yards, seven to twenty one
1:08:09
off the game clock, and with three forty two to
1:08:12
play here in the first half, it's Utah thirty three
1:08:15
in Colorado. Nothing time out on the field. We're back
1:08:17
to rice ecles after this. It's Utah Football for ESPN
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seven hundred and the Youth Sports Radio Network. First half
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and Tonight's game being brought to you by Pepsi, the
1:08:27
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to fans try to win free haircuts by great clips
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down on the field. I gotta tell you this offense
1:08:43
with Bird Fickland running, it looks very impressive tonight, Scott.
1:08:48
Here's the total offensive numbers. Utah already with three hundred
1:08:51
and sixty five total yards in the half. Colorado's got ten.
1:08:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we still have three minutes of forty four sevens.
1:08:57
You might get to forty here before halftime. But Bert Fickland,
1:09:01
you know, electric early and then when he really settled
1:09:04
into things, he just got comfortable seeing the field and seeing.
1:09:08
Speaker 1: What you know, and then reacting to it.
1:09:09
Speaker 3: Just throwing some really nice.
1:09:12
Speaker 2: Passes on time, and some tight windows too. I mean,
1:09:15
these aren't just cupcake throws. He's had to make.
1:09:17
Speaker 1: Ficklan's thrown for ninety three yards at a touchdown. He's
1:09:20
run for one hundred and fifty Scott, He's averaging ten
1:09:23
yards a rush. Here's the kick by Dylan Curtis will
1:09:27
not be returned by Colorado. Very fair right now. Colorado
1:09:32
does not look like they want to be in Salt
1:09:33
Lake City, do that?
1:09:34
Speaker 2: No, they really don't. I mean it's almost a little disappointing,
1:09:38
you know, just coach Prime just seems, you know, he's
1:09:42
a guy that has a lot of pride and he's
1:09:43
really trying to build something at Colorado and just hadn't
1:09:46
been a lot of fight in them anywhere.
1:09:48
Speaker 1: Offense, order field. Credit Utah for a lot of that.
1:09:51
Colorado's got it first to ten three forty two to
1:09:53
play before halftime. If you talk to get a stop here,
1:09:55
they're gonna get the ball back again. They've been all
1:09:57
three time outs. Colorado's got two salter in the backfield
1:10:01
with Dallan Hayden, the Ohio State transfer, height ended motion
1:10:06
across the formation. They're gonna throw the ball to the outside.
1:10:09
It's caught there, but he's not gonna go anywhere. He's
1:10:11
gonna be Oh, yes he will. He's going to escape
1:10:14
and get out of it. The wide receiver makes one man,
1:10:16
two man miss. He ran fifty seven and fifty eight
1:10:19
yards to pick up none. Oh my goodness, that was
1:10:24
Gibson who was chased all over the field and finally
1:10:27
got back to the original line of scrimmage. Yeah, this
1:10:30
looks like she's gonna be an easy tackle for loss,
1:10:34
and it's almost like guys get to a guy and
1:10:36
they just they stop, almost like they don't think it's
1:10:40
a live rep. Salter in the shotgun, Hayden next to him,
1:10:45
back pedals to pass. He's gonna be flushed out of
1:10:47
the pocket again. Salter looking down the field, being chased
1:10:50
toward the sideline, finally throws incomplete via Mahi Logan Fano
1:10:56
were there. They were trying to get that ball to Farakhan,
1:10:59
who was well covered on the sideline. Third down, coming
1:11:02
up clock stop with two fifty six to play.
1:11:04
Speaker 2: And you know that when the quarterback can't get outside
1:11:08
of your leverage, these defensive linemen are doing a good
1:11:11
job of making him when he scrambles outside to scramble
1:11:14
the backwards and it's it's really hard to have any
1:11:17
kind of decent angle to throw a ball when you
1:11:19
go that way.
1:11:20
Speaker 1: Third down in ten, Colorado for their own twenty five
1:11:23
Salter and the gun, he'll pass pass rush coming, Salter
1:11:28
flushed again, throwing chasing down, he goes at the five
1:11:33
yard line, he'll be sacked. John hu Hall got him.
1:11:37
Speaker 2: No, Yeah, and as is that relentless pursuit.
1:11:42
Speaker 1: That's a loss of twenty yards on the sack and
1:11:47
the clock will continue to run. Called timeout, and Utah
1:11:51
will do just that. Kyle Whittingham calls time now with
1:11:53
two forty one to play, they'll market at the seven,
1:11:56
so it'll be an eighteen yard loss on the play.
1:12:00
Colorado now goes down to minus eight yards of total offense.
1:12:04
I'm not sure if I can ever remember a half
1:12:06
scot where a team did have any positive yards zone
1:12:11
they're first of the half. This is why I love
1:12:13
having dag Spata four here. We're gonna keep him busy
1:12:15
tonight checking on these.
1:12:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dave, Dave's had to lick his pencil two or
1:12:20
three times just to make sure it still works.
1:12:24
Speaker 1: Time out on the field two forty eight Utah, we'll
1:12:26
have two timeouts remaining. I'm just telling you, Capen Saltra
1:12:30
and now the coverage is good downfield. But he seeing
1:12:33
ghosts at this point in time, isn't he? Well?
1:12:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, as a quarterback, you sometimes you get
1:12:39
into a comfort zone, and your comfort zone is like
1:12:42
where do I fail? You know, and they're just not
1:12:44
letting him get outside at all? And it's just like
1:12:47
and he's just and and you know, you're trying to
1:12:49
make plays. You're trying to do stuff, and you know,
1:12:53
and then you get desperate and then you do dumb
1:12:54
things like what just happened.
1:12:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, they blew that whistle pretty quick, but they did
1:13:01
blow it. So Graves will punt from his own end zone.
1:13:04
Car Volo will stand in his own forty nine. This
1:13:06
is very retardable lord end zone. Loud kick is away.
1:13:13
Oh it's a shank off the side of his foot,
1:13:16
out of bounds. Utah may have this inside the twenty
1:13:19
yard line. Look, let's see where they mark it. They're
1:13:24
walking up the sideline. Still walking up the sideline twenty
1:13:28
one yard line. Oh that's generous.
1:13:30
Speaker 4: Yeh.
1:13:30
Speaker 1: I don't think that ball ever reached the twenty yard line.
1:13:33
But Utah will have it on the edge of the
1:13:35
red zone after an awful punt, an absolutely disastrous punt
1:13:40
by Graves. I think those officials bank that up. I
1:13:43
don't think they really see exactly where it goes out
1:13:46
of bounds.
1:13:47
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, that looks like a good spot.
1:13:51
Speaker 1: So first and ten, Utah on the edge of the canyon.
1:13:53
If you credit UNI your red zone. Can they punch
1:13:56
another one in here before halftime? Bird Ficklin with way
1:13:58
Sean Parker, two receivers right, one to the left hand side.
1:14:04
Fickland keeps it himself, makes a man miss and then
1:14:08
falls forward for about a yard maybe half a yard
1:14:11
on the play. Colorado just selling out on Bird Fickland
1:14:14
right down, and.
1:14:15
Speaker 2: They just played for that run right There really wasn't
1:14:18
much going at all. You know, if Utah kind of
1:14:21
takes care of business, they might score twice before the half.
1:14:25
Speaker 1: If they score quickly, clock running it two twenty to play,
1:14:28
second down and nine at the twenty yard line. Pickland
1:14:31
again brings down Bentley in motion this time and he's
1:14:34
going to drop the pass. He's firing down toward the
1:14:36
end zone. Up touchdown. Larry Simmons beat the defensive back
1:14:45
to the back pylon. Another outstanding pro by Ficklan and
1:14:51
Simmons with his third touchdown of the year, his second
1:14:54
in as many weeks. And Utah is just battering the
1:14:57
buffs right now here on homecoming.
1:15:00
Speaker 2: Well, this throw is not the laser, but it's the
1:15:03
It's so accurate, and it's one of my pet peeves
1:15:07
in football is the quarterback doesn't.
1:15:10
Speaker 3: Give this guy a chance to catch it.
1:15:12
Speaker 2: You got to throw it high into the outside when
1:15:14
you're on the boundary. I mean, it's a perfect throw.
1:15:17
I thought he's gonna throw the ball to Bentley on
1:15:19
the little I did too. I almost thought he overthrew it.
1:15:22
He just I mean, it's that's such a beautiful throw.
1:15:24
Speaker 3: It's perfect.
1:15:25
Speaker 1: Pat really not kicked whistles blow first and let it
1:15:30
up front, kicking team number seventeen five yard pilody. I
1:15:35
played the trunk. Wow. It's not often that the police
1:15:37
kicker gets called for delay of game, but Dylan Courgis
1:15:39
does that scoring drive by the way of the PEPSI
1:15:41
touchdown two plays, twenty one yards and thirty four seconds.
1:15:45
Bird Fickland with his second touchdown pass the nights, and
1:15:49
he's now got one hundred and thirteen yards passing it,
1:15:51
one hundred and fifty one yards rushing. And it seemed
1:15:55
like not long ago. It's nineteen to nothing. We just
1:15:57
blew by nineteen. Sorry about that. That's got pat up
1:16:01
and good by Dylan Curtis. It's you call forty in Colorado.
1:16:07
Nothing in the half. I'm just telling you Colorado wouldn't
1:16:15
want to come out of the locker room for the
1:16:16
second half tonight. Yeah.
1:16:19
Speaker 2: Really done? That last throw. I mean, everyone was open.
1:16:22
That might have been the hardest throw that he picked
1:16:24
the throat, but.
1:16:24
Speaker 1: He's threw up perfect and it's a it's a it's
1:16:28
a throw from a guy who's really confident like that
1:16:31
that is that might be the best throw that he's
1:16:34
made all night. Oh man, that's that's a good sign. People.
1:16:42
I can't tell. I can't get over it. The more
1:16:44
I think about this throw.
1:16:45
Speaker 2: Man, I'm just so excited about it because so many
1:16:47
college quarterbacks cannot make that throw. That's an NFL throw
1:16:51
right there.
1:16:52
Speaker 1: And I was just on the money too, a weight
1:16:56
to play before halftime. It's you call forty Colorado nothing.
1:17:02
I mean, this is unbelievable, Scott. Utah has three hundred
1:17:05
and eighty six yards of total offense against Colorado. This
1:17:09
is a D one team. It's a team that beat
1:17:12
Iowa stayed a couple of weeks ago. They look helpless
1:17:15
to do anything offensively or defensively right now against Utah.
1:17:18
Well you think BYU went there and struggled, you know,
1:17:21
and boulder just to win. Yeah.
1:17:25
Speaker 2: I just scratched my head about this team because boy,
1:17:27
they sure looked so good tonight, you know, and it's
1:17:30
and against.
1:17:31
Speaker 1: I don't know it, just I'm baffled by what happened
1:17:34
last week. If you watch this team tonight, Michael Welch
1:17:44
in first and ten for Colorado with their own twenty
1:17:47
five yard line hand off, Welch nothing doing. He is
1:17:55
absolutely smothered by elite giv im Ahi right at the
1:17:58
line of scrimmage. And that will take us to the
1:18:00
two minute time out here at Riceycl Stadium. If anybody
1:18:04
worried about a hangover after the BYU lost last.
1:18:07
Speaker 3: Week, that is the two minute time out.
1:18:10
Speaker 1: Those worries have been alleviated and then some here in
1:18:13
the first twenty eight minutes of the half, Utah forty
1:18:16
and Colorado nothing time out on the field. We're back
1:18:19
to Ricecral Stadium. Next, it's Utah football. By He is
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from ESPN seven hundred, the Youth Sports Radio Network.
1:18:25
Speaker 6: This is where the Utes live on game day and
1:18:28
every day. You're tuned to Kall North Salt Lake, ESPN
1:18:34
seven hundred and ESPN seven hundred and the Ute Sports Network.
1:18:39
Speaker 1: Two minutes to play here in the first half at
1:18:40
Riceycl Stadium, Utah forty and Colorado nothing. First half being
1:18:47
brought to you by bud Light. Easy to drink, It,
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easy to enjoy. Shout out tonight to my good friend,
1:18:53
who I have not seen in a long time, but
1:18:56
I hope he's doing okay, and I'm glad he's tuned
1:18:58
into our broadcast. Tonight's Rale Wharton. We're all a huge
1:19:02
University of Utah football fan and haven't seen him in
1:19:06
a while, but I think he's tuned in and listening tonight,
1:19:09
and I hope we can make your Saturday night just
1:19:11
a little bit better. Roll us along with the youth.
1:19:14
So thank you for tuning in and be well, my friend,
1:19:18
be well. Forty to nothing, Utah. Second down in tam
1:19:22
Utah has got two timeouts if they want to use
1:19:24
him here. I thought they might have right before the
1:19:26
two minutes, but we'll see what they do here on
1:19:29
second down. Michael Welch the tailback, Keyden Salter the quarterback.
1:19:34
Utah with five Now they're bringing pressure. They move back
1:19:37
again in flags fly did they make contact into the
1:19:42
neutral zone? They win? But did they make contact?
1:19:45
Speaker 3: I think the left tackle stuck his hand out.
1:19:47
Speaker 5: Smart all side defense number ninety crawls in the offense
1:19:51
and fall start five yard building second down.
1:19:55
Speaker 3: See, I'm okay with that because this defense.
1:19:57
Speaker 1: Is there'll be a second down in five. Here they
1:20:01
were bringing pressure. John Henry Daily was the guy that
1:20:03
got called for that. Yeah, Utah showing pressure again. Salter
1:20:09
sees that pressure changes the play play clock at fifteen.
1:20:14
Morgan Scalley's just said, go get a voice. Salter backs
1:20:18
up into the shotgun. Four receivers in the pattern here
1:20:20
for Colorado hill pass. Here comes that pressure off the
1:20:23
edge again, throws to the outside cat and then dropped.
1:20:26
Oh my goodness. Quinton Gibson was the intended wide receiver
1:20:30
and Tayo Noe Miggett smith Stein just blew him up
1:20:33
in about the thirty two yard line, third down and
1:20:35
five coming up. Well, Gibson made the cardinal sin and
1:20:39
that is jumping up in the air and catch the
1:20:41
ball in your stomach and I keep your feet on
1:20:43
the ground. He thought he was gonna get hit right there,
1:20:45
and he kind of jumped in the air to kind
1:20:47
of defend himself and just lost his focus. Buffs are
1:20:50
two for eight on third down, minute fifty five to
1:20:53
play from their own thirty third down and five, Salter
1:20:57
to pass again, pressure again, sacked, it dropped again. The
1:21:02
Utah defense swarms him under and Johnny Hall another sack
1:21:06
for Utah, a four yard loss in Utah takes a
1:21:09
time out.
1:21:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, okay, Colorado got a little bit there
1:21:15
and now they've just lost like eight yards.
1:21:17
Speaker 5: I mean time out Utah their second of the half.
1:21:22
Speaker 1: Okay, you please, we set the game clock. So that's
1:21:26
the fourth sack for Utah tonight, the second for John o'hall.
1:21:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's all just about pass rush lanes and
1:21:33
just playing with some sense of urgency.
1:21:36
Speaker 3: I like the officially set please he said, please.
1:21:38
Speaker 1: Be nice kind of him to do that, car Von Barnett,
1:21:43
a very polite, packed big twelve official min in forty
1:21:45
eight to play. This offensive line had made so many
1:21:48
strides this year. Shador Sanders was sacked an enormous amount
1:21:52
of times the last two years. They've been a lot
1:21:55
better this year, but not tonight. Four sacks and a
1:21:57
ton of pressure from Utah.
1:21:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, and a lot of it's been that this relentless
1:22:01
effort and energy by that defensive line and the linebackers.
1:22:04
Speaker 1: Utah is just saying we can cover your receivers. We're
1:22:07
gonna go get the quarterback Graves to punt again. Carvolo
1:22:10
at his own forty make it thirty seven many forty
1:22:14
eight to play Utah out of timeouts. Now, Graves punt away.
1:22:20
This is a good punt high and endover in. Carvolo
1:22:22
is gonna fair catch it in about the twenty nine
1:22:25
yard line.
1:22:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm surprised he did. I mean, I think he
1:22:30
would have had space there. But you know, he's a
1:22:34
wild card, you don't know.
1:22:35
Speaker 1: Now, he's done well on those punt returns here tonight,
1:22:38
and Utah would amitted forty one to play no timeouts,
1:22:42
but boy, they haven't needed much time on these scoring
1:22:44
drives so far. Tonight they've got the one seven minute drive.
1:22:46
But we'll see what bird Ficklan could do. We've seen
1:22:49
him do just about everything else. Tonight, we'll see how
1:22:51
he operates to the two minute offense. It's good to see.
1:22:53
And he's got the wind at his back, you know,
1:22:55
so throwing the ball shouldn't be a problem. Rogers is
1:22:58
the tailbag. Three receivers at a tight end for Utah
1:23:03
on first and ten for their own twenty eight minute
1:23:05
forty eight to play Ficklin the pass looking throwing down
1:23:08
the field, He's got a man wide open and overshoots
1:23:11
him at the Colorado forty yard line. That was JJ Buchanan,
1:23:17
who had about three steps on the safety, but they
1:23:20
couldn't hit him.
1:23:22
Speaker 2: I think Utah had a guy way downfield. Offensive lineman think,
1:23:26
I go, here's a referee. Do they want the penalty
1:23:34
or will they take the down? I think they'll probably
1:23:36
take the down. With a minute thirty four to play,
1:23:38
we'll see.
1:23:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you know thing, here's.
1:23:44
Speaker 5: An eligible receiver downfield, offense number sixty eight five yard
1:23:49
building second down.
1:23:51
Speaker 2: I think Jared just wanted his still first still first down. Yeah,
1:23:54
I think Jared just wanted his name called. Like he's like,
1:23:57
how do I get involved in this game?
1:24:00
Speaker 1: So first down in fifteen. Now back at the twenty
1:24:02
three yard line for fick line of the utes man
1:24:05
at thirty four to play hand off. Nope, Fickland's gonna
1:24:09
keep it himself out on the edge thirty thirty two
1:24:12
thirty three and out of bounds, he's up ended. He
1:24:16
picks up almost ten yards. Yeah, I think this is
1:24:21
a counter all the way. I think there's a quarterback counter.
1:24:24
You know, it's just faking the run. But that's that's
1:24:27
a quarterback run all the way. We're going to give
1:24:29
him ten yards and now he's got one hundred and
1:24:31
sixty one yards rushing. We'll give you some interesting history
1:24:35
on that at halftime. Man at twenty eight to play
1:24:38
Fickland to pass a lot of time again, scrambling outside,
1:24:42
looking down the field, throwing down the field, just throws
1:24:44
it away. He was very relaxed, a little non chalanta
1:24:49
on that one. Try to get that ball to Downlandentley. Well,
1:24:51
what's nice is again he'd look so confident in the
1:24:54
pocket and he's not. You know, he's not fluttering or
1:24:57
flying too early. He's kind of he's moving around in
1:24:59
the he's looking and then he's just like, now there's
1:25:02
nothing there, so throw it away. And then he drilled
1:25:04
the marker third down at about five utah four out
1:25:10
of nine on third down here the first step. They
1:25:12
leaded forty to nothing. With a minute twenty one to
1:25:14
play fick one to pass again, thrown outside, Why that
1:25:17
one a little high and outside a little luku a
1:25:20
loose that time he had a wide open Ryan Davis
1:25:22
for the first down. And are we gonna see the
1:25:23
punt team, we are Kyle Whittingham's not gonna go for
1:25:27
it here in a minute seventeen to play.
1:25:29
Speaker 2: You know, those are hard sometimes when you haven't had
1:25:31
a lot of practice and it's basically an option route,
1:25:34
and you know in zone the guy's gonna sit down
1:25:38
and the man he kind of runs away, and he
1:25:40
wasn't sure is he gonna run away?
1:25:41
Speaker 3: Is he gonna sit down? He thought he was gonna
1:25:42
run away, and Ryan said, nah, I'm gonna just sit
1:25:44
right here.
1:25:45
Speaker 1: He got to read it. We've seen Utah fake one
1:25:47
punt tonight for a first down. Would they dare do
1:25:49
it again? Probably not. Farahkna his own twenty five yard line.
1:25:53
Ryan Phillips plenty of time, gets that kick away. That's
1:25:56
a boomer. Driving Farah Khan back, He's gonna let it
1:26:00
hit and it goes into the end zone. Wow, that's
1:26:05
gonna be the long punt of the year right now.
1:26:07
That is a sixty seven yard punt and no return
1:26:10
for a Ryan Phillips. His career long was seventy one.
1:26:14
That was a boomer though at sixty seven with a
1:26:16
minute seven to play, Colorado will get it first and
1:26:18
ten at their own twenty.
1:26:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got that wind that his pack gets that
1:26:22
up in the chests, dream and off it cos I'm
1:26:26
not sure I like these Colorado jerseys, by the way,
1:26:29
I just noticed how how awful they look. It's like
1:26:34
it's like when you use a racer or a marker,
1:26:39
you know, and the ink kind of stains, you know,
1:26:41
you get a really funny color.
1:26:43
Speaker 1: Here we go, Salter backs into the shotgun all by himself,
1:26:46
an empty backfield. You talk up after him again. They do.
1:26:49
Lit's up the middle. Salter runs away from it. He's
1:26:52
gonna pick him up and put him down and pick
1:26:54
up about five to the twenty five yard line. That
1:26:57
was more self preservation than edny thing else. Trey Reynolds
1:27:01
was right in his face. No, it was actually John
1:27:05
new Hall that was right in his face. Redolds ran
1:27:06
him out of bounds. So wow, second down in five
1:27:11
minute one to play empty backfield again. You're just gonna
1:27:15
blitz again. Here they come on Salter. He throws it
1:27:19
down the field incomplete. He's gonna throw one of these
1:27:22
and someone's gonna pick it off. He was trying to
1:27:24
get it to Ferricon. Farah Con was covered really well.
1:27:26
By Scooby Davis. Actually was now Blake Cotton here on
1:27:31
the near sideline, the Scooby's on the opposite side. Third
1:27:37
down in five fifty six seconds to play here. Unbelievable.
1:27:46
This is crazy. This first half is taken forever, by
1:27:49
the way, Michael in the backfield, poor receivers in the pattern.
1:27:54
Here they come again, pressure off the edge. Psalter goes
1:27:57
down again. John new Hall's got himself a hat trick.
1:28:02
That's three sacks in the first half of the Utah
1:28:05
linebacker and Utah is helpless. Now they can't stop the clock.
1:28:09
They don't have any timeouts remaining. Although the clock is stopped.
1:28:14
I thought they had one. I think they call time out.
1:28:18
I don't think so. Time out Utah their.
1:28:23
Speaker 3: Third and final and a half.
1:28:24
Speaker 1: Well, they just put that time out back up on
1:28:26
the board. Now they'll take it back off again.
1:28:28
Speaker 3: There we go.
1:28:29
Speaker 1: That is their final time out with about fifty seconds left.
1:28:32
I was a little going at the scoreboard had them
1:28:33
all gone. But uh, that's five first half sacks.
1:28:37
Speaker 3: Now, scoreboard can be deceiving sometimes not a true true thing.
1:28:42
Speaker 1: I mean, Morgan Scalley's just saying, go boys, just go
1:28:46
on and get them. How about the hat trick for
1:28:50
John o'hall. You know, it's just such a fun night
1:28:53
when you get you get things like that, and you
1:28:55
just you just your opponent is just helpless against anything
1:28:58
you can do. And this is a great game for
1:29:00
Utah tonight. You just washed that nasty taste of that
1:29:03
lost last week in Provo out of your mouth and
1:29:06
you feel better. Carvoglio is gonna get another chance to
1:29:10
return here. He'll stand at his own forty. We'll breeze
1:29:13
in the face. Who graves the punter who was just
1:29:15
out here like a minute ago. So you're talking to
1:29:19
come after it? They are, Town is blocked. It's blocked.
1:29:27
Jackson Benny got it off the edge, and Utah's got
1:29:31
it first and goal at the Colorado seven. Betty would
1:29:35
yet another big special teams play for Utah. That's his textbook.
1:29:41
Speaker 2: I mean, he just lays out right in front of him,
1:29:43
he knows he has it too, and the punter there's
1:29:46
just helpless.
1:29:47
Speaker 1: Just man. Like I said, I just I'm so glad
1:29:50
to see this. Special teams talked about it in the
1:29:52
pre game. Oh we did. We spent a whole say
1:29:54
you talking about it he's special today and they have
1:29:58
been goodness, great punt returns, kicks, punt blocks, fake punts.
1:30:03
They've done it all today, and Utah's got a chance
1:30:07
to put another one in here forty one seconds first
1:30:09
to Gold from the seven yard line, Ficklin keeps it himself,
1:30:14
straight ahead, burn to the five. Now have to hurry
1:30:17
it a little bit here, no timeouts. Clock at thirty three,
1:30:20
thirty two, thirty one. Boy, if you handed that ball
1:30:23
to Daniel Brave, that might have been a touchdown. Backs
1:30:26
up into the shotgun. On second and goal for the
1:30:28
five yard line, Bray in the backfield. Fickland hands it
1:30:31
to Bray. Bray goes straight ahead to about the three
1:30:35
nineteen eighteen seventeen seconds. Now Utah's gonna have to hurry again.
1:30:39
Fourteen thirteen. Are they gonna get a playoff? Here? Run
1:30:44
the ball right here? They can't. Seven seconds, six seconds,
1:30:47
five seconds. They down it with three seconds left before halftime.
1:30:53
They'll bring the field goal team out. You're in a surprise.
1:30:57
They ran that football a little bit.
1:30:59
Speaker 2: I mean it's kind of like, you know, if we
1:31:01
run it and score fine, I mean, yeah, you don't
1:31:03
want to run it up on the team. The crazy
1:31:06
thing was he was looking back there to see how
1:31:08
much time it's That seems very awkward for a quarterback
1:31:12
to do that.
1:31:12
Speaker 1: So this one will go down right in the middle
1:31:14
of the field at about the thirteen yard line, twenty
1:31:16
three yard attempt in essence a pat here for Dylan Curtis.
1:31:21
Good snap, good hold, the kick is away, and the
1:31:24
kick's good, and that'll take us to the end of
1:31:26
the first half. And absolutely dominating performance by Utah. They
1:31:31
lead it here after thirty minutes of football, forty three
1:31:34
to nothing.
1:31:36
Speaker 2: It's just been so impressive. And you know, sometimes you
1:31:39
get some guys hurt and the kuy comes in and
1:31:41
just gives you a spark, cars and juice. It's amazing
1:31:44
how the play of Bert Ficklon's just elevated everybody.
1:31:47
Speaker 3: It's just real impressive.
1:31:49
Speaker 1: TV's going to talk to Kyle first, then Sly will
1:31:51
get it with a Kangarf sideline update and we'll have
1:31:54
plenty of numbers for you courtesy of Dave Spatafford coming
1:31:57
up here at the half three nothing Utah. They have
1:32:01
dominated in every aspect of this game. Almost four hundred
1:32:06
yards of total offense for the Utes. And minus eighteen
1:32:10
for Colorado. Yeah, I mean, I don't know if you've
1:32:14
had a more perfect half.
1:32:15
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm trying to think of something going.
1:32:18
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just a perfectly executed first half
1:32:21
on all three phases. I don't know we've ever said
1:32:25
that before of this Utah football team. Let's go downstairs,
1:32:29
Slye with coach, go ahead, slide.
1:32:32
Speaker 4: Coach, awesome first half offensive explosion, true freshman quarterback.
1:32:36
Speaker 3: What if you like for Murphy playing in that first half?
1:32:38
Speaker 7: Well everything, He's done a great job, you know, true
1:32:42
freshman and had the composure and the command of the
1:32:45
offense of the ass It's pretty impressive.
1:32:48
Speaker 4: This defense is playing with a lot of juice. Three
1:32:50
sacks for Jonah Hall. They're not letting Cadence aalt to
1:32:53
do anything. What was the message of the defense in
1:32:55
this game, Well, just you.
1:32:57
Speaker 7: Know, coach Golly put a great plan together. The guy
1:33:00
had a great week of preparation, great week of practice,
1:33:02
and they're executing the exceptional line.
1:33:04
Speaker 1: Thanks coach, so I, coach, thank you. That sideline update
1:33:07
brought to you by Ken Garf. We hear you. Thirty
1:33:10
minutes of the most dominating football in a conference game
1:33:13
I can remember for Utah in a long long time.
1:33:15
They leaded forty three to nothing. The America First Credit
1:33:18
Union halftime show is next right here from ESPN seven
1:33:22
hundred of the Youth Sports Radio Network. Kick off from
1:33:25
Dylan Curtis high and end over end through the back
1:33:27
of the end zone. Again, let's go down to the sideline.
1:33:29
See what the message at halftime was. Slides down there sly.
1:33:32
What was the locker room like at halftime?
1:33:34
Speaker 3: Oh, the locker room was great.
1:33:35
Speaker 4: I mean, it's kind of hard when you're in these
1:33:38
situations because it's like, what do you say?
1:33:40
Speaker 1: But the biggest thing.
1:33:41
Speaker 4: That everybody was talking about was finished right, finished with
1:33:44
great technique.
1:33:45
Speaker 1: Everybody. Everybody's gonna get their chance to get into the game.
1:33:48
When you get in the game, focus on what you
1:33:50
gotta do. Talk, communicate, but finish this football game. So
1:33:55
that sideline update, thank you, brought to you by our
1:33:57
friends and Ken Garth. We hear you run a first
1:34:00
intend at their own twenty five yard line salter back
1:34:03
out there after getting beaten up pretty good by the
1:34:05
Utah defense in the first half. He's got Michael Welch
1:34:07
in the backfield with it. First down hand off Welch
1:34:11
and he is gonna get a yard and that is it.
1:34:14
Joon ala aa. We had a good first half. Stopped
1:34:16
him after a one yard game second down in nine
1:34:19
coming up.
1:34:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course you have the Lander Barton in the
1:34:21
game now. He sat out and so it's good to
1:34:24
see him back on the field. I'm sure it's a
1:34:26
little surreal for him to kind of just start the
1:34:28
game in the second half.
1:34:29
Speaker 1: Salter going with some tempo here. Now he'll check with
1:34:32
the sideline second down and nine. Welch stays in the backfield.
1:34:37
Three receivers at a tight end here for the Buffs
1:34:39
from their own twenty six saltered back pedals. He's gonna
1:34:42
roll to his right, be chased out to the right,
1:34:43
make a man missed, look down the field, throw down
1:34:45
the field. He's got a pass caught down the field
1:34:48
and about the forty yard line. That's a Mariy and
1:34:50
Miller with the first catch of the night. He's their
1:34:52
leading receiver coming in. That's his first grab to night
1:34:55
and a first down tackle made by Smith Noton.
1:34:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, Lander was chain the quarterback. Of course.
1:35:01
Speaker 2: He stepped up to the inside, which he normally doesn't do.
1:35:04
And makes it play.
1:35:05
Speaker 1: But everything's hard, you know, they have to earn everything
1:35:07
they're getting right now. Even in the second half, first
1:35:10
and ten handoff straight ahead, Welch tried to push that
1:35:14
pile the sophomore stacked up after about a one yard game.
1:35:18
John henry Day among others in the tackles for Utah
1:35:23
second down and nine coming up.
1:35:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, this defensive line has just played so nice, and
1:35:28
they've just been so active and just getting after the
1:35:32
quarterback on passing, but also just a really really solid
1:35:35
job on the run.
1:35:36
Speaker 1: Tonight's game being brought to you by Pepsi, the official
1:35:39
soft drink of the University of Utah. Second down to
1:35:41
nine buffs, trailing forty three to nothing. First drive of
1:35:45
the second half, Salter a pass being flushed, being chased,
1:35:49
avoids the rush up the field. He goes forty forty five, fifty,
1:35:53
forty five, forty and out of bounds of the Utah
1:35:56
thirty five. That's just bad pass rush lanes that time
1:36:00
by Utah. They should have had him sacked. Davis cost
1:36:02
him at a bounds. Yeah, and it's a little bit
1:36:03
of a key breaker.
1:36:04
Speaker 2: I mean, he's just not been a guy that's been
1:36:06
willing to step up into the pocket right there, and
1:36:08
he just kind of just out of I guess sheer.
1:36:12
Speaker 3: You know, nothing else he can do.
1:36:14
Speaker 1: He just makes a big play, longest play of the
1:36:17
night right there for Colorado to the Utah thirty five.
1:36:20
Salter to pass on first down, looking to the outside,
1:36:23
throwing to the outside, caught on the outside and dropped
1:36:25
immediately Michael Welch Lake Cotton dropped him behind the line
1:36:30
of scrimmage. That's going to be a loss of seven
1:36:32
yards back to the forty two. Yeah, if Colorado's not careful,
1:36:36
they're going to lose all those yards they just gained.
1:36:37
But great open field tackle by Blake Cotton.
1:36:41
Speaker 2: You know, again, I hate to have to say this,
1:36:44
but because there's just been so many missed open field
1:36:47
tackles that it's just really nice to see when someone
1:36:50
does it right.
1:36:50
Speaker 1: Second down in seventeen, the Salter backs up into the
1:36:53
gun again. Two tights and three wides surveys brings them
1:37:00
in motion. Gibson across the formation. Play action passed for Salter.
1:37:04
He's gonna step up and run and he'll not get
1:37:07
very far. John who Hall grabs him. He'll pick up
1:37:10
positive yard age to about the thirty eight yard line,
1:37:13
but Haul was there. It looked like there'd be a
1:37:16
lot more there for Salter, but Paul got him around
1:37:18
the ankles. Third down and call at thirteen to go,
1:37:21
and I think I think Salter's kind of figured this out.
1:37:24
Speaker 3: Look, but he's like, hey, going outside the pocket is
1:37:27
not good.
1:37:27
Speaker 1: Stepping up is in a great effort, but John to
1:37:31
get the tackle for a minimal game there, Utah slows
1:37:34
supping here, Colorado's up. They'll allow Utah to s up.
1:37:38
Tennel to play clock. Third down and thirteen from the
1:37:43
Utah thirty eights. Salter claps his hands, play action. Look,
1:37:47
he'll step up to run again. Kate Salter to the
1:37:50
thirty to the twenty five and very close to first
1:37:54
down yardage. Haul made the tackle. He's gonna be about
1:37:57
a half yard shy of the first down. They'll go
1:37:59
for here on fourth down, down forty three nothing. I'm
1:38:02
sure they'll get in that little toush push. Here they go.
1:38:06
Salter under center pushes the pile. Does he get the
1:38:08
first down? Official on the far side says he does.
1:38:12
I think they'll move him. Let's see, we'll wait.
1:38:17
Speaker 3: I don't know that he did. He's kind of get
1:38:18
to the line.
1:38:19
Speaker 1: I believe Utah is saying no, and so are the officials.
1:38:24
They're gonna say Salter didn't get there. Rolling on the field,
1:38:27
the runner was sort of the line of game first
1:38:29
down Utah. He needed half a yard and didn't get it.
1:38:32
The Utah defense comes up with a big stand. Yeah,
1:38:34
and that play.
1:38:35
Speaker 2: You know so often you try to hurry and get
1:38:36
up to the line of scrimmage. I'm not sure Colorado
1:38:38
even had all their guys set. And Utah did such
1:38:41
a fantastic job of realizing the situation and getting guys,
1:38:46
you know, plugging that middle quickly.
1:38:48
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you try to see Utah
1:38:52
just did a nice job. I don't think he got there.
1:38:54
Deon Sanders wants a review. We've got a time out
1:38:57
of the field. We'll see what they do when we
1:38:58
get back. Utah forty three, Colorado nothing, early second half
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dot org slash Events. Cayden Salter was indeed stop short
1:39:39
of the first down, so Utah will take over first
1:39:40
and ten at their own twenty five yard line.
1:39:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, nice effort there by the defense and clearly quarterbacks
1:39:47
figured out how to kind of rush up the middle.
1:39:50
I think scale when he gets out there again, I
1:39:52
wouldn't be surprised if he just brings more pressure. He's
1:39:55
kind of called off the dogs a little bit. And
1:39:57
then Colorado's adjusted.
1:39:58
Speaker 1: To Colorado's up to thirty one yards of total offense
1:40:02
now after that drive, but they give it up Utah
1:40:04
first and ten. Ficklin and Rogers in the shotgun bird
1:40:08
hands into Nakari. The Cary will push beyond the twenty
1:40:11
five to the twenty seven twenty eight yard line, and
1:40:14
a flagflies on the play. We'll see what we have
1:40:18
that'll be interesting. It was kind of from that umpire
1:40:21
back there, and he he was very definitive about what
1:40:24
he saw.
1:40:25
Speaker 3: Maybe it might be a face.
1:40:26
Speaker 5: Mask personal file face mask defense number ninety two, fifteen
1:40:33
yard piony automatic first down.
1:40:36
Speaker 1: Give that man a prize. And Quinn Barnes was the
1:40:39
one who grabbed that the Alabama transfer and Scott Mitchell
1:40:42
saw it from all the way up here fifteen yards
1:40:45
tacked on at the end as a good guess is
1:40:46
what it was, and I surgery paid off for you
1:40:48
tell me what it does first and den Utah the
1:40:51
forty three Ficklin in the shotgun. Well, Sean Parker back
1:40:56
there where the bird's gonna roll to his right, throw
1:40:58
out in the flat, complete thing and out of bounds.
1:41:01
He's got Ryan Davis beyond midfield into the Colorado forty
1:41:05
nine yard line. Man, the ball just jumps out of it.
1:41:08
I mean, this is just such a great throw. He's
1:41:10
just on it, flicks it out there and just perfectly
1:41:12
thrown ball to Ryan Davis there. And I like that
1:41:16
call too because it's it's such a positive, easy completion,
1:41:20
you know, on first down and it can be a
1:41:22
big play for you. So first and ten becomes second
1:41:25
down and eight at the Colorado forty nine yard line.
1:41:31
That's Nacari Rodgers. He'll have first downyard it's too about
1:41:33
the forty six and a half yard line. They'll move
1:41:35
to change another first down for Utah's we dip under
1:41:37
ten to play here in the third forty three to
1:41:40
nothing Utah.
1:41:41
Speaker 2: It almost feels like a spring game scrimmage, you know,
1:41:44
just a sprinkling of fans still in the stadium. You
1:41:47
can hear, the sound is different, and the team's just
1:41:50
kind of marching down the field here, just like it's
1:41:53
a Saturday afternoon.
1:41:54
Speaker 1: Utah will take some time off that play clock each
1:41:56
time they don't huddle up a trio of wide receivers
1:41:58
on the right hand side Parker of the backfield. Now
1:42:01
with Fickland on first and ten for the Buffs forty
1:42:03
six yard line, hand off Wyshan through the whole moving
1:42:08
tacklers and getting down to about the forty two that'll
1:42:11
be a four yard game for Parker. Way Shan had
1:42:13
a fifty eight yard touchdown run of the first half.
1:42:17
Speaker 2: You know, so often when you get past the fifty
1:42:19
yard line and you've kind of moved the ball, running
1:42:21
and sometimes coaches just think they have to change the
1:42:24
game plan in these situations. And right now, Utah's just
1:42:27
sticking with what they know and what's what's been right.
1:42:30
Speaker 1: That's been running second down six and a half now
1:42:32
from the Colorado forty two yard line. Fickland and the gun.
1:42:35
He's gonna move up to the line of scrimmage. Change
1:42:37
the play, Dan, you'll brave the back of the backfield.
1:42:39
Three receivers on the left hand side. Bird's gonna take it.
1:42:44
Try to throw down the field. Has a man right
1:42:46
in the middle of the field that's Dallan Bentley, beyond
1:42:48
the first down marker to the Colorado thirty three yard line.
1:42:51
The one thing you have to worry about now, Scott,
1:42:53
is things getting a little chippy. Colorado's kind of getting
1:42:56
their tails handed to them right now. They're not feeling
1:42:58
too good about it. Things could hit be here.
1:43:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, And this this is a play right here. It's
1:43:02
it's a quick throw rights to the tight end. And
1:43:05
it's a great, great call because there's so many guys
1:43:08
that are open. It's it's just like almost like a run,
1:43:10
easy money. But Fickland get you know, damn pire had
1:43:13
a hard time seeing this and this. That was the
1:43:15
difference right there between the two.
1:43:17
Speaker 1: So first intended to Colorado thirty three play clock at
1:43:21
ten is thick. One stands in the shotgun. He's gonna
1:43:25
roll to his right hand, left hand side, looked down
1:43:27
the field, nearly have that ball intercepted. He was trying
1:43:30
to squeeze it in the Ryan Davis, but with the
1:43:34
safety and the corner were there. That was Hodge who
1:43:37
leaped high for it. It went in.
1:43:38
Speaker 2: And can believe so I can hear, I can hear
1:43:40
Jason Beck next story. It's it's like the tight end
1:43:42
is white open. He's white open, and he was on
1:43:44
that play. Bird kind of predetermined in his head where
1:43:47
he was gonna go. You got to see the defender there.
1:43:49
He's you know, don't throw.
1:43:50
Speaker 1: It park of the back of the backfield. On second
1:43:53
down and ten, they hand it to way Sean straight
1:43:55
ahead and gets down to about the thirty one yard
1:43:58
line for a game of two second down at eight
1:44:00
coming up or third down at eight coming up. And
1:44:02
tell you what, if Bird kept that ball, he'd be
1:44:04
walking into the end zone right now.
1:44:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he you know, Wasayshan's just had a really
1:44:10
nice night. Nick carry and Nacari Roger. Both of them
1:44:12
have just run really hard.
1:44:14
Speaker 1: Parker's got eighty four yards now on about what seven carries?
1:44:17
Seven carries eighty four yards for Wasyshan third down and
1:44:20
eight here for Utah from the Colorado thirty one yard line.
1:44:24
Speaker 2: You know, in these situations, you know, look for a
1:44:26
bird maybe to either run or you know, maybe roll
1:44:31
out here, but they're not gonna take the ball out
1:44:32
of his handswer.
1:44:33
Speaker 1: Colorado stacking the line of scrimmage. They're gonna come after him.
1:44:35
Here he drops back the pass, here's the pressure, and
1:44:37
he's going to be sacked. Does he elude the rush. Nope,
1:44:40
He's gonna go down all the way back at the
1:44:42
Colorado forty five yard line. Jeremiah Brown got him, and
1:44:45
Colorado said we've had had enough of this. We're gonna
1:44:47
bring pressure ourselves. And that's the first sack tonight on Bird. Ficklin.
1:44:51
Speaker 2: See, in these last two plays have been like you
1:44:53
asked me the question, should he stay in the game,
1:44:55
And these are great opportunities to learn. You see, they're
1:44:58
they're lined up, there's no one you know, you know there,
1:45:02
so you got to get rid of the ball quick
1:45:04
and he'll learn from this. He'll also learn from that
1:45:06
throw on the rollout. You got to read your progression
1:45:09
and see what you you know before you throw the football.
1:45:11
So valuable lessons In that last drive for Bert, they.
1:45:14
Speaker 1: Actually marked his progress stopped at about the forty yard line,
1:45:17
fourth down in about sixteen Here, Ryan Phillips gonna rugby
1:45:21
this one after the right hand side. Kind of a
1:45:23
half kicked volley here, and it's going to roll inside
1:45:26
the five and then into the end zone. Utah had
1:45:28
three guys back and nobody could get to that football.
1:45:31
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1:45:34
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They even up the series with the Toronto Blue Jays.
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So all is well in the booth here tonight forty
1:46:25
three nothing Utah as they lead Colorado Puffs have it
1:46:29
first in ten here at their own twenty yard line.
1:46:31
Six thirty two to play here in the third Miller
1:46:35
in the backfield, Cayden Salter along with Cam Michael play
1:46:45
action pass Salter being chased out to the right, looking
1:46:48
after the right, still being chased, and finally throws it away.
1:46:52
Lander Barton missed a sack earlier. He wouldn't gonna miss
1:46:54
one that time if he had a chance. He chased
1:46:56
him all the way out of.
1:46:57
Speaker 2: Bounds, a better angle right there and just again it's
1:47:01
it's everything coordinated. Well, you know it's in the secondary.
1:47:05
We haven't really talked a lot about the secondary, but
1:47:08
they're a big part of why that this has been
1:47:10
a tough night.
1:47:11
Speaker 3: They have just plastered these wide receivers.
1:47:13
Speaker 1: Salter has thirty yards passages seven of nineteen.
1:47:15
Speaker 3: They have just killed killed it.
1:47:19
Speaker 1: Second down and ten for the twenty yard line, full
1:47:21
house backfield again, Salter hands it to Michael cam Michael
1:47:27
talented freshman, but he had nowhere to go. Trey Reynolds,
1:47:31
John Henry Daily Inel the tackle for Utah third down
1:47:34
and long coming up. Yeah, it's you know, it's just
1:47:37
so fun to watch football games.
1:47:39
Speaker 2: You watch the line of scrimmage just tells you so
1:47:42
much and you just see the activity from this Utah
1:47:46
defensive front linebackers, defensive linemen just just really just getting
1:47:52
after it tonight.
1:47:53
Speaker 1: Buffs five out of twelve on third down, face a
1:47:56
third down and ten from their own twenty. Salter has
1:48:00
well to the backfield, He'll drop the pass. Pressure coming
1:48:04
Salter hit as he throws incomplete excellent coverage here on
1:48:08
the near sideline by smith Snowden as they tried to
1:48:11
get it into Quenton Gibson, and Utah was a whisker
1:48:14
away from their six sac of the night. Right there.
1:48:17
Speaker 2: Well, I think that first series Morgan just kind of
1:48:19
called off the dogs and he just said not anymore.
1:48:23
Speaker 1: We are coming after you with everything we have. And
1:48:27
Utah just plays really good when they play that way.
1:48:30
Yet another punt coming here for the Buffs from their
1:48:33
own twenty. The punter stands inside the ten of his
1:48:36
own six. Car Volume, who's had a good night returning
1:48:39
kicks tonight for Utah on his own thirty nine kick
1:48:44
away not block this time. Car Voluo chased back inside
1:48:47
of his own thirty five to his thirty one up
1:48:50
the field. He goes to the forty, still on his
1:48:52
feet forty five. That's another good return, Monic Carvoluo when
1:48:56
he's held onto that football has been fantastic tonight for Utah.
1:48:59
That's four teen yard return at a time out on
1:49:02
the field. Five twenty nine to play here in the
1:49:04
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Sideline with Yo Slies. Hanna's a good look at Tate
1:49:31
the salter running for his life all night tonight.
1:49:33
Speaker 3: Sly what he got, man, This defense is looking awesome.
1:49:37
Speaker 4: As you guys have said, it seemed like God Scotty
1:49:40
wanted to play a little bit more conservative on that
1:49:42
first drive and on that second time he's like, we
1:49:44
can't have that. We were looking bad right now. Our
1:49:47
technique is bad. Wrestlings is bad. So on this last series,
1:49:50
heat them up right. Laddibarton took a better angle on
1:49:53
his glitz, made.
1:49:54
Speaker 1: The quarterback go.
1:49:55
Speaker 3: Sideways, get out of balance, quick, three and out.
1:49:59
Speaker 4: This defense it's special right and doing the things that
1:50:03
we love to do, which is blitz. It's making everybody
1:50:05
now the second unit is in. Everybody's living great in Utah.
1:50:09
Speaker 1: So I think sideline up. They brought to you by
1:50:11
Ken Garth. We hear you. Monta Carvolo had a tough
1:50:16
moment against BYU last week in the return game, but
1:50:18
tonight Scott five returns sixty yards. He's averaging twelve yards
1:50:22
of punt return. That'll play. Any time you're in double
1:50:25
digits on punt return yard each that's big.
1:50:28
Speaker 2: Well, and what it is, it's you know, you see
1:50:30
players grow and you have a tough night and you
1:50:33
answer back, and that's what you want to see. And
1:50:36
you know, if if he gets taken out of the game,
1:50:38
never sees the field again, you know, it's it's hard
1:50:40
to grow from that.
1:50:41
Speaker 1: First and tenant, they're only forty six way Sean Parker
1:50:44
into the ball game, makes his way out to the
1:50:46
fifty just the other side of the fifty yard line
1:50:49
for a four yard game. Mike, we have two two
1:50:52
D two one hundred yard rushers tonight. We already have
1:50:55
Bird fick Win at a buck sixty four, a buck
1:50:57
fifty four, I should say. Now, Wayshan's got himself to
1:51:01
about eighty eight yards. Yeah, I love how he's run tonight.
1:51:05
And those are tough yards right there. I mean, Colorado
1:51:08
is just like we know Utah is gonna run it. Now.
1:51:10
Speaker 2: Just try to shorten up the game here, so we're
1:51:12
gonna stack the box and the yards you get, they're
1:51:15
gonna be tough.
1:51:16
Speaker 1: Sebi tal Longa lined up as a full back right now,
1:51:19
next to the quarterback. Actually it's the running back, and
1:51:21
that's way Sean Parker into the secondary. He goes and
1:51:24
he's down after a gain of eight yards to the
1:51:27
forty two yard line, just running wildcat right there.
1:51:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I said earlier, it's a way to get that,
1:51:34
you know, the quarterback when he runs, it's an extra
1:51:37
guy and to actually have way Sean be the guy
1:51:40
back there, that's.
1:51:41
Speaker 3: Just it's a smart little playing Utah does.
1:51:44
Speaker 1: How Longa lines up now on the end is an
1:51:46
extra offensive lineman first and ten for the Colorado forty
1:51:51
two Fickland of the game. Now, now tal Longa is
1:51:53
shifting around with a tight end Parker of the backfield.
1:51:56
Here comes a man in motion. That's a roll to
1:52:01
the right hand side for fick What he dumps it
1:52:02
into the flat that's gonna be the forty and now
1:52:04
the thirty nine yard line. Finally knocked out of bounds.
1:52:08
Do we have Creed win a more Creed winn Amore
1:52:11
in the game for the first time this year, makes
1:52:13
his first catches at youth the Mississippi State transfer. Yeah,
1:52:16
I'll tell you that was a lot of motion, shifting
1:52:19
and finagling just to throw a little flat route three
1:52:23
yards of the flat and fans second down in seven.
1:52:26
How about this beef on the left hand side. A
1:52:29
couple of defensive tackles turned linemen are now playing on
1:52:33
the left hand side. Rogers is the tailback on second
1:52:35
down and seven Damn Pierre making fickling hands at the
1:52:38
Rogers second level for Nakari all the way down to
1:52:41
the thirty one yard line. That's going to be a
1:52:43
gain of eight in a first down for Utah. They're
1:52:45
just lining up and running counter and straight ahead.
1:52:48
Speaker 3: Die yeah, And a lot of times, you know, you
1:52:51
show formation like heavy.
1:52:53
Speaker 2: You know you got all the big guys over here
1:52:55
to the left, and then you go, well, let's go
1:52:56
counter the opposite way. Kind of a tendency breaker there,
1:53:00
and it works for a nice game.
1:53:02
Speaker 1: How longa lined up as a tight end in the
1:53:04
left slot. Now he comes in motion, hand off again,
1:53:07
Noe fick one's going to keep it out on the edge.
1:53:09
Bird is going to be dropped behind the line of scrimmage.
1:53:12
That'll be a loss of about three yards back to
1:53:14
the thirty four yard line. Nobody really blocked out on
1:53:16
the edge that time.
1:53:17
Speaker 2: Well, it's hard to block I mean, I mean Colorao's
1:53:19
got eleven guys up to the line of scrimmage here.
1:53:21
I mean there's no one back deep at all. They
1:53:23
know Utah is gonna run, and that play had no
1:53:26
shot under normal circumstances, and might might be a play.
1:53:30
Speaker 1: With a more back in the ball game here for Utah.
1:53:35
Second down and thirteen. They haven't seen Daniel Bray here
1:53:39
in the second half yet for Utah, no two receivers
1:53:42
split to the left hand side, Ficklin in the shotgun
1:53:45
Colorado with five of the line of scrimmage. Bird rolls
1:53:47
to the right hand side, looking down the field, throwing
1:53:49
down the field, nearly intercepted ball knocked away by Hodge,
1:53:53
the safety. Not sure where he was going with that,
1:53:56
but it fell incomplete. That'll bring up third down a lot.
1:54:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, Bird, if he can get outside, and he really
1:54:03
can here, he's just got to keep going, keep going,
1:54:05
and he just kind of stopped and he stops right there.
1:54:08
Speaker 3: But there's really nowhere if no one was opening no.
1:54:10
Speaker 1: In fact, if that ball's not tipped, it might have
1:54:12
been intercepted down the field. Third down and thirteen now
1:54:16
for Utah. Rogers in the backfield with Ficklan three receivers
1:54:20
at a tight end of the right slot here for
1:54:22
the ute, Colorado has eight at the line of scrimmage.
1:54:24
Fickler looking to throw does inside. It's caught there. That
1:54:27
Whittemore with another catch. It is creep Whittemore with his
1:54:30
second grab. That's going to be well short first down
1:54:32
yardage and Dylan Curtis is going to get to attempt
1:54:35
another field goal here.
1:54:36
Speaker 2: See, and that's a learning moment right there. The last
1:54:38
time Bird held on to the football, this time he
1:54:40
got rid of it. You know, Winnimore needs to keep running.
1:54:43
You know this man coverage, you just run away. There's
1:54:45
no one there. Just keep running.
1:54:46
Speaker 1: Well, he hasn't played very much this year. He probably
1:54:48
forgot he had to keep running.
1:54:50
Speaker 3: He's just happy to catch the ball.
1:54:51
Speaker 1: Dylan Curtis tonight two for two on field goal attempts.
1:54:54
This one's going to be a forty five yard attempt
1:54:56
for the left hash. Colorado's lined up to come after
1:54:59
this one high snapkick is away. It's high. It's end
1:55:03
over end, and it is good. Dylan Curtis, welcome back.
1:55:07
Three for three tonight, beat out for forty six nothing
1:55:10
Now with a minute forty two to play here the
1:55:13
third quarter.
1:55:14
Speaker 3: Say, it's a nice tempo with the kicks.
1:55:16
Speaker 1: You know, he's got a booming leg, but he just
1:55:19
makes a nice good sweep at the ball, doesn't try
1:55:22
to overkick it. That field goal sponsored by G two G.
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When you eat one, you'll know he plays twenty seven
1:55:30
yards three forty eight off the clock, forty five yard
1:55:32
field goal. Utah really not trying anything fancy right now, Scott.
1:55:36
They're pretty much running the ball, not trying to embarrass Colorado.
1:55:39
I think there's a good relationship between Kyle Whittingham and
1:55:42
Dion Sanders, and so they're just playing pretty much straight
1:55:46
ahead football right now.
1:55:47
Speaker 3: And I think Coach Prime can respect this.
1:55:49
Speaker 2: You know. It's like and he has a lot of
1:55:50
respect for coach Witt, and he's like, you know, this
1:55:53
Utah team showed up tonight and they put it on
1:55:56
on color and they put it on him.
1:55:58
Speaker 4: You know.
1:55:58
Speaker 2: So it's the only concern you have at this point.
1:56:01
Are you got all those big old defensive linemen in
1:56:04
there and you're shifting them and motioning.
1:56:06
Speaker 3: Those guys can get tired.
1:56:08
Speaker 1: By the way. Coach Prime has never coached against Utah
1:56:11
when Utah had its number one quarterback. Two years ago,
1:56:14
they were down to Luke but Tari in the final
1:56:17
game of the season, their fourth or fifth spring guy.
1:56:19
Last year he was Isaac Wilson, the backup quarterback, and
1:56:23
this year it's the backup quarterback, Bert Ficklin. Yeah, I
1:56:27
don't know that i'd call Bert the backup. I'd call
1:56:29
him the number one in waiting.
1:56:32
Speaker 2: You know, he's he's not looked like a backup quarterback
1:56:34
too well, I know, technically, but he's looked really good.
1:56:38
Speaker 1: He has, he's played well. Kick with through the end zone.
1:56:42
It's a touchback. Colorado begins at their own twenty five
1:56:44
down forty six to nothing. They have not been across midfield,
1:56:48
but one time that was their last drive and Utah
1:56:51
smothered that went and stopped him at about the twenty
1:56:53
five yard line. Well that was two drives ago. First down,
1:56:58
Salter on a little pop pass to the man in
1:57:00
motion getting to the outside, and that's gonna be a
1:57:03
horse collar tackle on Utah. And they're gonna get that
1:57:05
horse collar tackle on Saunders the defensive back. It was
1:57:11
gonna be about a seven maybe eight yard gain and
1:57:13
Sonders grabbed him by the collar and pulled him down.
1:57:15
That's going to be an extra fifteen.
1:57:17
Speaker 2: See, these are situations. These guys haven't been playing in
1:57:20
the game, and all of sudden they get.
1:57:21
Speaker 5: In the wow horse collar tackle defense number four, fifteen
1:57:26
yard piloting automatic first.
1:57:29
Speaker 2: Down and so your feet aren't quite up to speed
1:57:32
and so you know, it's a bad angle by Saunders
1:57:35
to begin with, and then he's out of position. Then
1:57:37
he's got to grab and that's usually a bad thing
1:57:41
that happens.
1:57:41
Speaker 1: With the exception of Scooby Davis and Tao Johnson, everybody
1:57:44
on the field for Utah and now part of the
1:57:46
second team, this will be a handoff to the tailback
1:57:48
of the Utah territory, goes Cam Michael and he picks
1:57:51
up about five yards to the Utah forty eight yard line.
1:57:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, and these are the things because you know, Coach
1:57:57
Scaley's so competitive, all those defensive code are and they
1:58:01
don't like.
1:58:01
Speaker 3: To see these positive runs happening.
1:58:04
Speaker 1: And I don't care if the second guy's third whoever,
1:58:07
it doesn't sit well with him, and they certainly want
1:58:09
to keep this shutout if possible. As we come up
1:58:11
on a minute to play here, in the third another
1:58:14
hand off to the tailback. This time he's going to
1:58:16
be dragged down from behind. That was Elijah Ellis. Excellent
1:58:21
tackle from behind for Luther's next in line, third down
1:58:24
coming up. Yeah, Elijah Season, it just goes You know,
1:58:27
he doesn't hesitate at all, and you know so often
1:58:30
players haven't been in much and they just kind of
1:58:32
hesitate the The Paulic goes right by it, but he
1:58:35
reads it, reacts and just makes it. Makes a big play.
1:58:38
Colorado five out of thirteen on third down. They faced
1:58:40
a third down and almost six yards to go from
1:58:44
the Utah forty seven yard line. Probably four down territory
1:58:48
here for Colorado unless there's a big sack. Salter lines
1:58:51
up with the shotgun, spreads four receivers across the pattern.
1:58:55
I'll see if Morgan Scalley heaps him up or rushes
1:58:57
just four right here with his backups. Now, Deon Sanders says,
1:59:01
give you a time out. He's gonna have that play.
1:59:03
Clock was about to run out. Fifteen seconds remain here
1:59:05
in the third Utah forty six, Colorado nothing. Only three
1:59:09
points here in the third quarter, after forty three in
1:59:12
the first half for Utah. Our program tonight being brought
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You know, you have to ask yourself, well, at what
1:59:25
point in the first quarter did Colorado decide to quit?
1:59:28
You know, because that's kind of about what happened in
1:59:31
the game. It was over very early. Salter as Michael
1:59:36
in the backfield win him two receivers left, two receivers
1:59:39
right on third down in five and a half, Salter
1:59:42
in the shotgun Utah showing a four man down fronts
1:59:46
here they come with pressure up the middle. He throws
1:59:48
it outside camp. Michael catches, but he's wrestled down immediately
1:59:52
in the open field. Excellent tackle. That was Elijah Ellis
1:59:55
again for Utah.
1:59:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you love it when these players come in
1:59:59
and they just go and it's about making plays, you know,
2:00:01
and you just have to play with a certain energy.
2:00:04
And I think that's one of the things we've seen
2:00:06
tonight on both sides of the ball that maybe we
2:00:08
haven't seen really that is the end of the third
2:00:12
consistently all year, you know, is this guys have been
2:00:15
making plays tonight.
2:00:16
Speaker 1: End of the third here in Salt Lake City on homecoming.
2:00:19
After three quarters of football, it's Utah forty six in
2:00:22
Colorado nothing. We head to the fourth next did Utah
2:00:24
football from ESPN seven hundred of the Youth Sports Radio Network.
2:00:28
We head to the fourth quarter on a homecoming. This
2:00:31
one all Utah and it has been all night long,
2:00:33
forty six nothing. They leave coach Prime and aboves. Although
2:00:37
I will say this a better third quarter for Colorado.
2:00:40
They were being outgained at halftime three hundred and ninety
2:00:43
eight to minus eighteen. They outgained Utah the third quarter
2:00:47
sixty one to forty six. Forty seven on the ground
2:00:50
fourteen through the year. Utah had twenty seven in the
2:00:53
year nineteen on the ground, both teams ran fifteen plays.
2:00:56
Neither team converted a third down in the third quarter,
2:01:00
but Utah managed the field goal, and we said at
2:01:02
forty six nothing. Now it's fourth down at about almost
2:01:06
eight yards to go here for Colorado, I think it's
2:01:09
go time because they're on the Utah side of big field.
2:01:11
But it's a long way to go here on fourth down.
2:01:14
Speaker 2: Well, especially when you know Utah is kind of shutting
2:01:16
it down in the second half, and it's it's a
2:01:19
harder it's a harder thing to do as an offense
2:01:22
when you you know, you you wait to get out
2:01:25
of the huddle and you're trying to eat as much
2:01:27
clock as you can, and it's just a different tempo
2:01:30
than you've been going all game. And that's it's just
2:01:32
a little harder to get into the same kind of
2:01:35
rhythm when you're playing that way. But it's the way
2:01:37
you need to play.
2:01:38
Speaker 3: And you know, the biggest thing is to win the
2:01:40
game and finish it out and.
2:01:43
Speaker 1: Do it in a in kind of the right manner.
2:01:45
I'm not sure this game day could get any sweeter,
2:01:47
but boy, if you add a chip cookie to this
2:01:49
game day, you might have the sweetest game day of
2:01:51
all O g of the warm cookiees born right here
2:01:54
in Utah. Game day is chip day. Boy. They're not
2:01:57
going to go for it here. Scott gonna bring out
2:02:01
the putter. Got a new punt return man back too.
2:02:04
That's for Shawn Glover, who's kind of the old punt
2:02:06
return man. Carvallo's knight appears to be done. I'm really
2:02:13
surprised Deon Sanders isn't going forward here on fourth down
2:02:16
on the Utah side, of midfield.
2:02:17
Speaker 2: Well, it's a sign that you know, they're just they've
2:02:20
kind of surrendered. And of course they did that a
2:02:22
long time ago. But but this is this is a
2:02:24
team that wants to get on the plane and go home.
2:02:26
Speaker 1: Graves on the punt here for Colorado. He's been out
2:02:28
there a bunch tonight. Stap is good, kick is away,
2:02:34
it's high, it's wobbly. Glover's gonna let it hit. It
2:02:38
checks up at about the three and we'll kill it
2:02:40
at about the seven yard line. I'll say the eight
2:02:44
yard line, and that's where Utah will take over. And
2:02:46
I think we may see Isaac Wilson here. Oh, that's
2:02:50
exactly who we'll see for the first time this season.
2:02:53
Isaac Wilson will get meaningful staffs for Utah. He'll play
2:02:57
with a backup offensive line. And lord, he's getting a
2:03:01
nice round of applause with the Ukah fans here. Good.
2:03:04
Speaker 3: That's great to see.
2:03:05
Speaker 2: That is great, great to see and love that Isaac
2:03:07
came back, you know, and he could have gone other places,
2:03:10
but he's he's fighting his way.
2:03:13
Speaker 1: Isaac Wilson lined up wide. Wyshawn Parker takes the direct
2:03:16
step and he's out the gate look out way, Shawn
2:03:18
Parker to the outside thirty thirty five forty forty five
2:03:21
fifty forty five nut of bounds at the Colorado forty
2:03:24
yard line. Boy, if he keeps going straight up the fields, gun,
2:03:27
I think he might have gone for a touchdown.
2:03:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, at first I thought it was I thought it
2:03:31
was Isaac Wilson running, but it was actually the wildcat
2:03:34
right there and just kind of finds his way around
2:03:35
the edge.
2:03:36
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, where I think he saw that DV.
2:03:40
Look at Isaac Wilson trying to run down the field
2:03:42
and block somewhere. That's good effort by the backup quarterback.
2:03:45
Right there, Wyshawn Parker is now over one hundred yards
2:03:48
of utes. Now have two rushers over one hundred one
2:03:51
forty five on that rush for was Shawn Parker forty
2:03:55
nine yards to the Colorado forty three hand off. Now
2:04:00
into the whole day, go and now to about the
2:04:02
forty forty one yard line. That was Nacari Rodgers. Isaac
2:04:07
Wilson comes in the first place. Hey, you're going to
2:04:09
be a decoy. We're going to put you out on
2:04:11
the on the I will fake it to you. The
2:04:13
last time Utah had two one hundred yard rushers in
2:04:15
the game was against the Stanford Cardinals Scott back in
2:04:18
twenty twenty one. Tavion Thomas a buck seventy seven, Mike
2:04:22
mckibernard at buck ten, and TJ Pledger a buck seven. Wow,
2:04:28
hand off dancing Now to the outside. Look at Isaac
2:04:31
Wilson go and he stopped right about the line of scrimmage,
2:04:34
at about the forty one yard line.
2:04:36
Speaker 2: He should have just kept going outside. Isaac, you know
2:04:39
the fastest place for him is a straight line. Don't
2:04:42
don't zig and zag, bro just just keep running straight.
2:04:46
Speaker 1: Did you just call him broke? I did? I just
2:04:48
had it. Just very unlike you to call somebody broke.
2:04:51
I know it came out. Sorry. Third down and eight
2:04:54
here for Utah. Isaac lines up in the shotgun. Oh,
2:04:57
I got everywhere to the line of scrimmage. Nain Johnson
2:05:02
motions out of the backfield. Now that would come back
2:05:04
in again over the middle. It goes nearly intercepted. All goodness,
2:05:09
Hodge had that red. They tried to squeeze it into Glover,
2:05:13
Holy Holy, that would have gone for sixty other way. Instead,
2:05:17
he dropped and he goes in complete. Are they gonna
2:05:20
try a long field goal? Here? They are? Wow, this
2:05:23
is gonna be a fifty nine yard field goal attempt. Scott.
2:05:26
The wind has died down a bit, and Dylan Curtis
2:05:29
attempting a fifty nine yard field goal. I believe this
2:05:32
would be a Utah school wrecord. We'll check on that.
2:05:36
From the right hash Dylan Curtis out of the hold
2:05:39
of Ryan Phillips. Snap is back, the hold is away,
2:05:43
the kick is away. It's high, it's end over end,
2:05:46
and it's short, probably five yards short. He kind of
2:05:49
got under that just a little bit. He's got the
2:05:52
leg to do it. I've seen him do it practice
2:05:53
and in scrimmages, but that one came up just a
2:05:55
bit short. And Colorado will take over on downs when
2:05:59
we get back. Twelve fifty five to play here the ballgame,
2:06:01
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bro forty six nothing. The field goal for Dylan Curtis
2:06:44
came up a little short. I don't think he drove that, Scott.
2:06:46
I think he kind of got a little bit under it.
2:06:49
It was a fifty nine yard attempt that went about
2:06:51
fifty four yards. Ryan stops in at quarterback. This guy's
2:06:56
been around forever. He predated Dion Sanders at Colorado, got
2:07:01
one start this year, he wasn't the answer, and so
2:07:04
now he's the backup and he'll play the final twelve
2:07:07
to fifty five. Caden Salter will take that ice bath,
2:07:10
and he'll need that because Utah beat him up pretty
2:07:13
good tonight. Salter finishes nine of twenty two for thirty
2:07:17
seven yards and a pick they handed off to Cam
2:07:19
Michael and he's up the sideline and into Utah territory
2:07:23
and down at about the Utah forty seven yard line,
2:07:27
forty six yard line, that'll be first down yardage, and
2:07:29
he gat to thirteen.
2:07:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's where nobody got off a block there.
2:07:34
Speaker 1: Just a nice job by Colorado and creating a seam
2:07:38
right there in the short side of the field. First down,
2:07:44
Stop's gonna throw it into the flat. That's complete. That's
2:07:47
a flankers screen to Sincere Brown and he's still running
2:07:50
all the way down to the Utah thirty three yard line.
2:07:53
It's another game, a big game. Who Cep Baloona got
2:07:56
downfield to make the tackle on the play. But this
2:07:59
is not what you want to see right now if
2:08:00
you're Morgan Scaley is.
2:08:01
Speaker 2: The safety's got to come up and stop that. I
2:08:03
mean that the outside defenders like, look, I turned it
2:08:07
back in. Someone someone come and get it. And that
2:08:09
should have been the safety.
2:08:10
Speaker 1: Michael detailed back four receivers in the pattern here for stop.
2:08:14
See if Utah brings some pressure on him this time,
2:08:17
he's going to backpedal the pass. Five man rush this time,
2:08:19
he's gonna look down the field. He's got a receiver
2:08:21
out there and overshot his man. That's Omary and Miller,
2:08:26
who came in as leading wide receiver. He's got all
2:08:29
of one catch here tonight for Colorado. Now we thought
2:08:32
we'd see this earlier. A nice pocket there to throw
2:08:34
the ball. It's actually pretty decently thrown football. Second intent
2:08:40
of the Utah thirty three yard line for Colorado. Pistol
2:08:43
formation Michael behind stop stop hands, Michael into the hole
2:08:50
he goes, and a pickup of three down to about
2:08:53
the thirty yard line.
2:08:54
Speaker 3: Sept.
2:08:54
Speaker 1: Belowa with another tackle for Utah. Poop Poo having himself
2:08:57
a nice night. Yeah, Poopoo has been very very well tonight.
2:09:02
You see that athleticism, You see that, You know he's
2:09:05
a guy that's really going to be something here for
2:09:07
this Utah team. Has a lot of great defensive tackles
2:09:11
here at Utah. Yeah, a lot of young good players.
2:09:14
Third down and seven down for the Bucks. Got to
2:09:16
get to the Utah twenty three bull shit. A man
2:09:19
out of the backfield, stop backpedals to pass pressure coming.
2:09:22
He's gonna try to run for it if you'll have it. Ooh,
2:09:25
an awkward slide and about the twenty three yard like
2:09:28
got exactly where he needed for a Colorado first down.
2:09:32
You know they used to call this so like right
2:09:35
when he attempts to slide. This was a pretty generous
2:09:39
spot right here. First intend at the Utah twenty three
2:09:42
as we dip under eleven to play Colorado, trying to
2:09:45
get on the board for the first time tonight, Utah
2:09:47
tried to continue to pitch that shutout and off cam
2:09:50
Michael bouncing to the outside. Oh, he's gonna be ripped down,
2:09:54
flying in from the secondary. An outstanding tackle the play
2:10:00
by Rock Caldwell. And we've got an injured ute down
2:10:06
on the play right in the middle of it. That's
2:10:07
Poop poo cept Bologna, whose name we've called a number
2:10:10
of times tonight. Boy, how about Rock Caldwell like a
2:10:13
rocket coming up to get Michael.
2:10:15
Speaker 2: And and you'd like to see this from these young
2:10:18
players and experienced players. It's you know, you saw it
2:10:21
from Elis, you saw it there from Rock and.
2:10:24
Speaker 1: It's it's just so much about for an injured player
2:10:28
seeing the play and then just reacting.
2:10:30
Speaker 2: You know you do there's no hesitation. So often when
2:10:32
you don't play, you just kind of second guess yourself.
2:10:34
Speaker 1: Time out on the field for the injured player. Poop
2:10:36
Poo set Poloona Utah forty six in Colorado, Nothing ten
2:10:40
thirty five to play here in Salt Lake City. It's
2:10:42
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show for the crowd here. In halftime, forty six Nothing
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Utah Poo Poo set Boloona helped off the field. He
2:10:57
should be okay. He's had a good night tonight. Tackle
2:10:59
for low as four tackles overall for the backup freshman
2:11:02
from O what y.
2:11:05
Speaker 5: You know.
2:11:05
Speaker 2: They have that injury tent and some of those big guys,
2:11:09
I'm not sure they fit in that tent.
2:11:11
Speaker 1: Popol might be one of those guys, and they may
2:11:13
need a bigger tent.
2:11:15
Speaker 3: His toes will be hanging out the end of the tent.
2:11:17
Speaker 1: I'm big enough for him. Quin needed a bigger boat.
2:11:20
The Utes might need a bigger tent. Second down at
2:11:24
eleven for Colorado trying to get on the board for
2:11:26
the first time tonight. They're at the Utah twenty four
2:11:30
to twenty five yard Locke stops come in to run that.
2:11:35
The final plays of this game for Colorado, after Salter
2:11:38
went three quarners ineffective, Miller and Michael in the backfield
2:11:45
with stob receiver right, two receivers left. Utah with seven
2:11:49
near the line of scrimmage. Now they flex everybody out
2:11:52
to an open backfield. Stop at the shotgun by himself,
2:11:56
back pedals, blitz coming, fires over the middle, caught at
2:11:59
the tent at the five toward the end zone. Is
2:12:01
he in? They're gonna mark him down at about the
2:12:03
one yard line. O'marion Miller beat the quarterback. I believe
2:12:08
it was J. C. Hart on that play, the freshman
2:12:11
from Auburn. Now Colorado goes quickly to the line of
2:12:13
scrimmage because they subbed the Utah now gets to sub stop,
2:12:20
goes under center. Will he call his own number? Now
2:12:23
he's gonna back up into the shotgun. Offensive lineman having
2:12:30
a discussion with him for the one yard line stop
2:12:34
takes the time out. Colorado was all sorts of discombobulated
2:12:37
on that play they ran up. They probably should have
2:12:39
just snapped it. Time out.
2:12:42
Speaker 3: Colorado their second of the half.
2:12:46
Speaker 1: Time out on the field. Will take it with it
2:12:47
with nine to forty seven to play, first and goal
2:12:50
for the Buffs and about the one yard line when
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we get back. It's Utah Football from ESPN seven hundred
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of the Youth Sports Radio Network ninety seven to play
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in the ball game, bill Ley, Scott, Fitchel Stevenson, Sylvester
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our entire crew. Here's gonna be elite win here, Ryce Echels.
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A lot of fans have stuck around. Some of the
2:13:07
bus has stuck around as well. It's forty six to
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nothing Utah. This game was over at the end of
2:13:12
the first quarter. Fans stuck around. Utah has put up
2:13:15
a grand total of three here in the second half,
2:13:17
but they really haven't tried. It's pretty straight forward stuff.
2:13:21
Colorado maybe getting their first points of the game here
2:13:24
on this next play. They've got first in goal with
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the Utah one yard line.
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Speaker 2: We's first and goal, and it's like, just run the play,
2:13:30
you know, I mean, come on, they're calling a time
2:13:33
out in the game. That's these points are meaningless. Makes
2:13:37
no sense to me.
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Speaker 1: Now they break the huddle, they get quickly to the
2:13:43
line of scrimmage, stops gonna go under center Miller in
2:13:49
the backfield with it. Now he back up into the shotgun,
2:13:51
Viller on his right. Now he goes back under center again.
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Stop calls his own number, and he's stacked up. He
2:14:03
didn't get there. You got maybe a half a yard.
2:14:07
That was not much of an effort. Who who set
2:14:09
Falona back of the ball game led that charge?
2:14:12
Speaker 2: I mean Stop got stood up. No one helped him
2:14:14
from behind. There is no push in that at all.
2:14:16
It's probably why Stop call. He's like, look, I don't
2:14:18
run this play very well, and you want me to run.
2:14:20
Speaker 1: This second down and goal at the one yard line.
2:14:28
Stop again there, subven, Utah subven. Everybody's subbing. Miller and
2:14:36
Michael are the tailbanks. See if they push him this time?
2:14:40
Stop under center again. This time he lunges and he's
2:14:43
in for a touchdown. Second effort from Ryan Stop gets
2:14:47
him in and there will be no shutout tonight on homecoming.
2:14:51
The Buffs prevent that with a touchdown right there against
2:14:54
Utah's backups and a pat coming up.
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Speaker 3: Well, they earned it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it took him a minute to get in there,
2:15:00
and they finally did. In kind of appreciate the effort
2:15:04
there that scoring drive nine plays fifty nine yards and
2:15:13
three point fifty two off the game clock, Colorado gets
2:15:18
their first points of the night. Almost we add fifty
2:15:25
one minutes into this one. Mata on to attempt the
2:15:31
extra point. He's been nearly perfect in his career. Kick
2:15:35
is up and Alejandro Mata knocks it through twenty three
2:15:40
for twenty three on the year, one fifty four for
2:15:43
one fifty five in his career. They don't do on
2:15:46
site kick now, I mean they're not gonna do that,
2:15:48
right they want to. I mean they punted from midfield
2:15:51
a little while ago. The only reason you would even
2:15:54
think about doing it is just to get practice.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the on site is such a tough thing, you know,
2:16:04
the way they set the rules up now, it's just
2:16:06
really hard.
2:16:07
Speaker 1: That looks like they might be doing it. Maybe Bunk
2:16:20
Buchan and their kickoff specialist is out there having either
2:16:28
side stacked one way or another. Probably gonna kick this
2:16:31
one long and we'll see nine oh three to play
2:16:34
Utah up forty six to seven. You can it, puts
2:16:43
his right foot into it, drives it absolutely through. Is
2:16:47
a touchback machine for the Buffs. Hey, you tab will
2:16:50
get it first intend at their own twenty five yard light.
2:16:52
We'll see we get Isaac Wilson back here out here
2:16:54
again for the Utes. I think we will, and Bryce
2:17:00
will be your tailback. Bryce, of course began his career
2:17:05
in Virginia Tech actually then moved to Old Dominion that
2:17:11
made his way to Utah. So he'll be your tailback.
2:17:14
Utah will have it first and ten and Nate Johnson
2:17:22
plays a wildcat quarterback, is going to keep it himself
2:17:24
off the left side. Nates picks up two out of
2:17:27
the twenty seven yard line. Yeah, Nates is a guy
2:17:32
you know, they really like as an athlete. And we
2:17:35
haven't seen eight in a football game since I think
2:17:37
the Wyoming game when he fumbled the football. This is
2:17:41
the first action tonight. Yeah, was it Texas Tech or
2:17:44
was Wyoming when he was going in for the touchdown?
2:17:49
Bryce Duke your tailback, Isaac Wilson your quarterback. Play clock
2:17:55
at thirteen. They'll break the huddle, get to the line
2:17:57
of scrimmage on second down and eight. Wilson in the gun,
2:18:08
rolls to his right, going to keep it out to
2:18:10
his right, gets to the thirty and gets thrown down.
2:18:13
Right there is that a design quarterback runner was he
2:18:17
gonna throw that sky.
2:18:18
Speaker 2: I think he was throwing it and I just don't
2:18:20
think anyone was open, and he just kind of made
2:18:22
it because no one's really getting down the field, and
2:18:25
of course the offensive lineman goes heye with. It's hard though,
2:18:31
I mean because the quarterback kind of sometimes he sets
2:18:35
the blocker up in a poor position.
2:18:38
Speaker 1: Utah five out of fourteen. Tonight, on third down, Nate
2:18:41
Johnson to the ballgame here for Utah, they'll utilize him
2:18:44
as a weapon. Got to get to the thirty five
2:18:47
to keep this drive alive. Isaac and the shotgun motions.
2:18:50
Nate Johnson outs. Now they'll motion him back in again,
2:18:53
run that speed option, and Isaac keeps it and gets
2:18:56
thrown down right at the line of scrimmage at the thirty.
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I bring up fourth down. Yeah, I don't know if
2:19:03
Isaac had the option to keep it or not, because
2:19:05
it Sutain looked like you mightn't want to give it.
2:19:08
You know.
2:19:08
Speaker 2: If I have my choice and third down, I think
2:19:10
I'm gonna pick Nate Johnson running it.
2:19:13
Speaker 1: But you know that's just me.
2:19:15
Speaker 3: Looked like it was there. I think he should have
2:19:17
handed it off.
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Speaker 1: So we come up on seven minutes to play in
2:19:21
fourth down. Here for Utah, fourth down and five, Ryan
2:19:23
Phillips back out the punts quant El Farah Kahn at
2:19:27
his own twenty yard line, Rugby kick high and end
2:19:39
over end Farrah CON's gonna fair catch it at the
2:19:42
nineteen yard lovel good punt by Phillips, good hang time
2:19:45
by Phillips, fifty one yard punt, no return, and Colorado
2:19:51
takes over at their own nineteen yard line with six
2:19:53
forty two to play, Ryan stop going to stay at
2:19:55
the ball game as your quarterback.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 1: Phillips had a nice, nice night punting the ball. He's
2:20:00
done a great job. He completed the one on the
2:20:02
big punt, you know.
2:20:03
Speaker 2: So often when you don't do that, very often you
2:20:06
get a pretty negative result. And he did a nice
2:20:08
job of Look, I'm gonna make sure the guy caught
2:20:11
the ball, you know, and gives him a good pass.
2:20:15
Speaker 1: So first and ten for the Buffs, down forty six
2:20:17
to seven with six forty two to play from their
2:20:19
own nineteen yard line. Stop of the gun, Michael next
2:20:22
to it. Stop's gonna throw it on the slant complete
2:20:26
to Gibson. Tackle made by Letrician Thompson. Out of the
2:20:33
twenty seven yard line, gain of seven. Yeah.
2:20:36
Speaker 2: Interesting. You know Colorado is still throwing the football here
2:20:38
in the game, and clearly this game is you know,
2:20:44
I don't know why you're doing it, but they.
2:20:45
Speaker 1: Are stop hands off Michael second level into the secondary,
2:20:50
into the open field beyond the thirty five to the
2:20:53
forty You have in trouble tackling him and finally bring
2:20:56
him down at about the forty four yard line. These
2:21:00
backups having a little trouble tackling at that second level.
2:21:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I think having a hard time
2:21:05
getting off the ball too. You know, early on in
2:21:08
the year, when they've been playing a lot, it's easier,
2:21:11
but when you've been sitting for a while, it's harder
2:21:13
to make those plays.
2:21:15
Speaker 1: Stop at the pistol formation again to Michael. This time
2:21:18
he's stood up and driven backwards. Excellent work inside that
2:21:24
time by Carson Kafusi along with Canai Lopes short gain
2:21:31
of two.
2:21:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, Carson, he's another one of those really good young players.
2:21:35
Defensive line in Utah really likes.
2:21:37
Speaker 1: Second down and eight in the forty six for Colorado.
2:21:41
Play action throw into the flat, complete on out on
2:21:43
the far side and into the open field goes Colorado,
2:21:46
finally forced out of bounds Omaron Miller inside Utah's thirty
2:21:51
five and down to their thirty two yard line. Colorado's
2:21:54
not taking their foot off the gas here.
2:21:56
Speaker 3: Now, those flankers screens. You know, there's nobody who's coming
2:22:00
to the rescue.
2:22:00
Speaker 1: You know, the guys are the safeties, they're the field
2:22:03
guys are just not They're not not getting there quick.
2:22:07
Hating the tail back of the ball game now, because
2:22:09
Colorado rotates them through first and ten for the Utah
2:22:11
thirty two. Stob hands to Hayden that on that right
2:22:15
side and he'll get two to the thirty and that's it.
2:22:19
Cash Dillon in on the tackle for Utah along with
2:22:24
Maroni and I one of the older players on this
2:22:27
Utah football team. Second down at eight, there's Kafusis and
2:22:31
the Knives and there's some some old traditional football names
2:22:36
right there. Stop operates out of the shotgun on second
2:22:42
down and eight again, he'll backpedal to pass Utah bringing pressure.
2:22:46
He's looking down the field, throwing down the field, nearly
2:22:48
had a man open, twisting and turning at the pylong.
2:22:51
Gibson couldn't come up with it even completed goes and
2:22:55
they're giving stob a lot of time to throw and
2:22:58
got these backups in He's he's an experienced guy. He
2:23:01
throws a balt in ice right here, third down at
2:23:04
eight and coming up here for Colorado for eighteen to play,
2:23:09
trailing forty six to seven down at Hayden. The running
2:23:15
back Stop backs up into the shotgun, spreads four receivers
2:23:20
across the field, Utah showing pressure, and here they come
2:23:23
on stop. He throws the fade up the sideline in complete,
2:23:27
trying to find his van Omarian Miller. Good coverage up
2:23:30
that sideline by Utah. That was J. C. Hart, the
2:23:33
freshman transfer from Auburn. And I'll bring up fourth down
2:23:36
and eight and Utah.
2:23:39
Speaker 2: You know they're just saying, hey, we dare you to
2:23:40
throw it, and stops going, okay, I mean I'm taking
2:23:44
my shots here.
2:23:45
Speaker 1: I'm swinging the bat when I'm in the game. I
2:23:48
might as well. Fourth down and eight for the Bucks
2:23:51
from the Utah thirty yard line. Four receivers in the
2:23:56
pattern here for Colorado. Stop takes the stad Utah brings
2:24:01
the pressure. He throws down the field. He's got a
2:24:03
man out there and he overshot him, didn't complete. That
2:24:06
was twice he had him open. That time he missed.
2:24:08
Sincere Brown didn't complete, and a Utah backup defense holds
2:24:13
and the offense will come out with four h five
2:24:15
to play.
2:24:17
Speaker 3: That's kind of tough as a quarterback.
2:24:18
Speaker 2: You have all these shots to hit some plays, you know,
2:24:22
and again, a lot of quarterbacks can't put the ball
2:24:24
in a place where a receiver can make a play
2:24:27
on it. That's a great example, and that's why that
2:24:30
throw from Bird Fickland Hearth here in the game was
2:24:33
so impressive that not everyone can do it.
2:24:39
Speaker 1: First intent Utah of their own thirty yard line, Bryce
2:24:42
Duke gets the carry, bounces outside thirty five forty and
2:24:46
down to the forty four yard line, goes, dude, that's
2:24:51
a nice play.
2:24:52
Speaker 2: A lot of times they'll bounce outside and the lineman
2:24:55
will get called for holding right there, and there's this
2:24:57
excellent job of blocking up front. Nice daylight there for
2:25:01
a big game.
2:25:03
Speaker 1: Bryce Duke now on the season with sixty eight yards,
2:25:09
it's well on his way to one hundred. Isaac Wilson
2:25:15
still your quarterback. Nate Johnson to the ballgame again for
2:25:18
Utah on first down, Johnson the Wildcat quarterback. Wilson comes
2:25:27
in motion, Nate Johnson into the open field. There he
2:25:29
goes thirty twenty ten to five touchdown. It's a house
2:25:35
call for Date Johnson. He was untouched the entire way
2:25:40
into the end. Zony goes and that will be the
2:25:43
capper tonight on homecoming.
2:25:47
Speaker 2: Well, you know, they blocked him up at the line
2:25:49
of scrim and they sold out on the blitz and
2:25:51
you get everyone blocked and you pop through that line
2:25:54
and there's nobody there. And of course you see the
2:25:57
speed of Nate Johnson. He's very fast and fast guys.
2:26:00
Of course kme here as a quarterback and it's kind
2:26:03
of an athlete.
2:26:04
Speaker 1: Now do you think maybe the Colorado defense bid on
2:26:06
the fake to Isaac Wilson on the flies. He had
2:26:10
them all fooled.
2:26:11
Speaker 3: It's going to Wilson.
2:26:12
Speaker 1: We know it is the Pepsi touchdown by Nate Johnson.
2:26:15
The pat is up and good and with three twelve
2:26:20
to play, Utah gets over the fifty point mark tonight.
2:26:24
Fifty three seven is the score here at Rice Ecle Stadium.
2:26:27
Nate Johnson did a nice job wiggling through the hole
2:26:31
and then nobody touched him.
2:26:33
Speaker 2: You know, he's a guy that can make plays. I
2:26:36
mean he's got he's fast, and you know, maybe he'll
2:26:40
he'll work his he'll work back into the flow of
2:26:44
things here because he's the guy that you know, early
2:26:46
on looked pretty good.
2:26:48
Speaker 1: Utah's got four hundred and five yards of total rushing tonight. Woow.
2:27:00
Speaker 2: It's so hard, you know, when you're in there trying
2:27:02
to get a rhythm and you're just sitting in the
2:27:05
huddle just waiting for the clock to wind down. It
2:27:07
it's just so hard. And you know, to these guys credit,
2:27:10
you know, they're playing hard out there and awkward situations.
2:27:15
Got a new is it the same kicker or we
2:27:17
got a new kicker? Or is there just one kickers?
2:27:21
Speaker 1: Cheek Joey Cheek is a kicker too sometimes and he's
2:27:25
the one gonna kick it off right now, Joey four
2:27:29
yards deep, Colorado's gonna bring it out. That's Gibson twenty
2:27:34
that's Gibson twenty five thirty and finally tackled at about
2:27:41
the thirty eight yard line, brought it out from three
2:27:44
yards deep, but got it out to about the thirty
2:27:47
yard line. Or I'm sorry, forty yard line. That's a
2:27:50
good kick too, because you kick it to a side,
2:27:52
you know, and you give yourself a chance and should
2:27:54
not have gotten as far as he did. By the way, Utah,
2:27:57
here's another deep spat of four spat staff four touchdown
2:27:59
drive to they have less than a minute. That's like
2:28:02
the complete opposite of what we saw earlier of the
2:28:04
year where everything was an eighteen and nineteen play drive.
2:28:06
And there you know, some of these players have really
2:28:09
sparked some big play potential. Bray Ficklin three zero three
2:28:15
to play first intend Colorado at their own thirty eight
2:28:18
yard line. Ryan stopped by himself and the shotgun drops
2:28:21
the pass and a roll to his right. Now he'll
2:28:22
try to run stop taking down from behind on a
2:28:25
good tackle from behind by Lance Holtzklaw.
2:28:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, Lance said, a nice job.
2:28:32
Speaker 1: All these defensive lineman, they just they got great motors
2:28:36
and you just just love to see the effort energy.
2:28:41
Call it second down in five now after about the
2:28:43
forty three yard line. Stop again in the shotgun you
2:28:45
talk routing the line. They're gonna come after him. Now
2:28:48
they drop out pressure coming and down he goes. That
2:28:53
was Elijah Ellis he was looking like his brother on
2:28:56
that play coming off the edge.
2:28:58
Speaker 3: Boy, he looks so much like it's it's just scary, like,
2:29:02
who are his parents?
2:29:03
Speaker 1: Is this clone? These kids that they're just football players.
2:29:08
Six sacked tonight for the Utah defense. Third down and
2:29:10
thirteen coming up, Cam Michael in the backfield. Stop stands
2:29:17
in the shotgun four yards behind the line of scrimmage.
2:29:20
Utah bringing pressure again. Here they come stop hit and
2:29:23
dropped again. It's that time Cash dil ohs Cash stillan
2:29:32
who got him that time? Right up the middle.
2:29:34
Speaker 5: Seventh sacked tonight for the Utah dens the two minute
2:29:38
time out.
2:29:39
Speaker 1: So the two minute time out brings up fourth down
2:29:42
in twenty two. As we go to break tonight, a
2:29:44
big shout out to Utah super fan Caleb who's on
2:29:48
his way home tonight to Fruit Heights. Caleb, thanks for
2:29:52
coming out to the ballgame tonight with your uncle and
2:29:54
your mom and your dad, and have a safe drive
2:29:57
home tonight. Utah in controlled. As we go to the
2:30:01
two minute timeout, fifty three seven Utah leading Colorado, and
2:30:05
this is Utah Football on ESPN seven hundred. Back inside
2:30:11
rise ecl Stadium. We're the two minute time out Utah
2:30:15
fifty three, Colorado seven fourth and twenty two. Coming up
2:30:19
here for the Buffs. By the way, Andy Phillips just
2:30:21
sent me a text. One of the great kickers in
2:30:24
Utah history. He just said, Hey, got you a free haircut. Andy.
2:30:31
If you wouldn't have gotten me a free haircut, all
2:30:34
of those awards you won would have been nullified if
2:30:37
you didn't hit that field goal. Hopefully your son got
2:30:40
that field goal. We'll get one of those field goals
2:30:42
one of these days too. We love Andy Phillips, the
2:30:46
greatest skier kicker combo in the history of college football
2:30:51
and one of the great guys you'll ever meet too. Thanks. Andy.
2:30:54
Putter out here for Colorado with a minute fifty nine
2:30:59
to play. He's been busy. Damon Graves, hass tonight, no
2:31:05
fake here, he gets it away. Ball's gonna come up short.
2:31:10
Glover will take it. Ray Sean to the outside, trying
2:31:13
to beat the guys in the corner. Won't get there.
2:31:15
Turns the corner gets shoved out of bounds at about
2:31:18
the thirty eight yard line. But he got shoved out
2:31:21
headlong into those Colorado heated benches down there. He's Okay,
2:31:25
he's popped up. Utah will have it first. Intend they'll
2:31:28
take a couple of these and be done here tonight.
2:31:31
And it's a good bounce back night tonight, scot for
2:31:33
Utah for the disappointment last Saturday. Wow, it's just been
2:31:36
like where this didn't come from it.
2:31:38
Speaker 2: It was just full of energy from the beginning to
2:31:42
the very end and just saw a great effort just
2:31:44
to cross the board. I mean, just great answer back
2:31:47
for this team after a tough loss last week.
2:31:51
Speaker 1: First inten Utah at their own thirty eight, Isaac Wilson
2:32:01
gonna hand it off to Bryce Duke. Bryce threw a
2:32:04
hole out beyond the fifty although mark him down knee
2:32:08
down at the fifty yard line. A gate of twelve fired.
2:32:10
Still in the ballgame, Boy, he was a tackling machine earlier.
2:32:14
I can't believe he's still out there for Colorado.
2:32:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting.
2:32:18
Speaker 1: Utah just set a club on that left hand too,
2:32:20
keeps running the ball here. I'm really quite ready to
2:32:24
take a knee been at twenty five and the clock
2:32:27
running to play first intended midfield here for Utah. The
2:32:30
numbers tonight offensively are staggering and they're staggering even when
2:32:35
Utah took their foot off the gas. Here in the
2:32:37
second half, play clock at four, Isaac takes the snap,
2:32:44
rolls to his right, handsed back to Bryce Duke through
2:32:47
a hole again, boy Bryce, beyond the forty five and
2:32:50
down to the forty four to six more yards for
2:32:52
Bryce Duke, who's having himself a nice night rushing. That's
2:32:56
now three carries and thirty two yards for Bryce Dwe Yeah.
2:33:01
Speaker 2: This second offensive line where they're just really getting after
2:33:03
it here. They're blocking hard and great surge.
2:33:07
Speaker 1: One more staff for Utah is all what's going to take.
2:33:09
They'll assume the victory position here at the Colorado forty four.
2:33:14
Isaac Wilson gets under center, takes the staff, takes the knee,
2:33:19
and that'll do it. As complete a victory in a
2:33:23
conference game as Utah has had in a number of years.
2:33:28
From start to finish, offense, defense, special teams, it all
2:33:31
worked tonight for Utah and it is a great night
2:33:34
to be a Uton homecoming here at Rice ecl Stadium
2:33:37
as they take down Colorado by a final score of
2:33:40
fifty three to seven.