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#6 Utah @ Cincinnati 10-31-26 · Utah Football Gameday Archive

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  Speaker 1: Utah fans, good afternoon and welcome to Cincinnati, Ohio, and
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  Speaker 1: the campus of the University of Cincinnati in Nippert Stadium,
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  Speaker 1: where today, for just the second time all time, the
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  Speaker 1: University of Utah takes on the Cincinnati Bearcats. I'm Bill Riley,
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  Speaker 1: joined by my broadcast partners and Utah legends, Steven Sinselvester,
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  Speaker 1: who's in the booth with me. And the third member
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  Speaker 1: of our broadcast team, Zach Moss, who's downstairs. Today's a
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  Speaker 1: big one for both these teams. Utah made a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a statement last week in knocking off nationally ranked
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  Speaker 1: Houston at home, so they've established themselves to rank six
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  Speaker 1: in the country. But now in the Big 12, everything's
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  Speaker 1: a big game as you get toward November, and you're
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  Speaker 1: playing a Cincinnati team today that knocked off number eight
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tech right here in Cincinnati a week ago. So, Sly,
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  Speaker 1: it's great that you beat Houston a week ago, but
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  Speaker 1: now you've got to back it up today against the
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  Speaker 1: Bearcats here.
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  Speaker 2: On the road. Yeah, guess how much Cincinnati cares that
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  Speaker 2: you beat Houston?
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  Speaker 1: They don't.
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  Speaker 2: And so this game is going to be very up-tempo,
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  Speaker 2: lots of energy. The student section has been there for
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  Speaker 2: at least the last hour and a half. They are excited.
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  Speaker 2: Cincinnati's excited. Cincinnati believes they have a chance, man. And
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  Speaker 2: so it's got to be up to Utah to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that you kill their mindset of having any chance
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  Speaker 2: in this football game really early, really fast. That start
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  Speaker 2: fast narrative that we've been going on this whole season,
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  Speaker 2: which has to be this team. Starting fast offensively gets
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  Speaker 2: this team in a groove. We do that today, we'll
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  Speaker 2: be right where we want to be.
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  Speaker 1: We won't see Utah's offense first. They won the toss,
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  Speaker 1: they will defer. So they'll be on defense first. Down
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  Speaker 1: to the third member of our broadcast team is Zach Moss,
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  Speaker 1: who's on the sideline today with Utah. Zach, you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to see Utah get the ball first. They won't do it,
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  Speaker 1: but they can still make a statement defensively shutting down
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati on the opening drive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they can definitely do a lot of different things, right?
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  Speaker 3: You can get the ball first by taking the ball
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  Speaker 3: away first as well. That'll work too for us.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 4: It's electric down here. These guys are ready to go.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be a really good game.
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  Speaker 2: Zach, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Overcast skies, temperature about 66 degrees here at kickoff today.
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  Speaker 6: The student section is full, but the rest of the
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  Speaker 6: stadium a little slow to fill in here. Just over 39,000
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  Speaker 6: the capacity here at Nippert Stadium, but it gets loud.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bowl that sunk in the ground, surrounded by buildings,
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  Speaker 1: so the town stays in. The key for Utah here
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  Speaker 1: early is not to let that sound get too loud, right?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's definitely an advantage. You know, pulling into the stadium,
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  Speaker 2: it's my first time here. Seeing it build down, I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: no wonder why it looks so loud when you watch
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  Speaker 2: this game on TV. When you watch it on film,
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  Speaker 2: it looks like this crowd is electric. That is a
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  Speaker 2: huge advantage for the home team. And so take the
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  Speaker 2: crowd out of it. That has to be the goal
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  Speaker 2: for Utah early and often in this game.
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati will be without their starting center today. Tyron Tayo
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  Speaker 1: will be out. It'll be up to back up center.
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  Speaker 1: Grant Edgington to hold things down, but still a very
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  Speaker 1: veteran offensive line for Cincinnati today. Zylan Perry running back.
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  Speaker 1: Veteran goes back to receive this kick. It'll be Dylan
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  Speaker 1: Curtis kicking from right to left as you listen to it,
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  Speaker 1: and as we call it here today, a contrast in uniforms.
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  Speaker 1: Utah in the white with crimson trim today. Cincinnati with
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  Speaker 1: the all-black uniform today. Their color's black and red. Utah
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  Speaker 1: wearing the white and the crimson today here on the
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  Speaker 1: road for the first time ever here at Nippert Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: And the student section up and ready to go. And
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  Speaker 1: so are we. So glad to have you with us
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  Speaker 1: wherever you may be tuning in today. Around the city
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  Speaker 1: of Salt Lake City, around the state of Utah, around
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  Speaker 1: the country, around the world today. Thank you for making
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  Speaker 1: us part of your game day. And we're ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Curtis has it teed up in his own 35. And
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  Speaker 1: we're ready to get going here in Cincinnati, Ohio. As
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  Speaker 1: he puts his right foot into it, drives it high
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  Speaker 1: and end over ends. Island Perry says nope. And let
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  Speaker 1: this one go for a touchback. And Cincinnati will begin
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  Speaker 1: first and 10. At their own 25-yard line. Last year
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  Speaker 1: was Brendan Sorsby. Utah got after him pretty good at
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  Speaker 1: Rice-Eckel Stadium. Today, it'll be a young man by the
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  Speaker 1: name of J.C. French, a transfer senior from Georgia Southern.
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  Speaker 1: He was Georgia Southern's all-time leading passer before he made
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  Speaker 1: that transition to Cincinnati. And he'll lead an offense with
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  Speaker 1: a veteran offensive line in front of him. And two
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  Speaker 1: very good tailbacks in Coltab and Jabran Payne. And French
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  Speaker 1: lines up in the shotgun on first down and 10.
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  Speaker 1: Tied in. Four wide receivers on first down. Utah's going
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  Speaker 1: to have four down linemen. Now they shift around. They
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  Speaker 1: bring Tab into the backfield. They hand it off to Coltab,
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  Speaker 1: who's got the edge. Coltab, 30, 32, and 33-yard line
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  Speaker 1: is where he goes. They're actually going to give him
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  Speaker 1: nine to the 34-yard line. That's not a good start.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not, and that was an alignment issue. We
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  Speaker 2: weren't lined up right. We had Rapid Evans, Jonah Hall
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  Speaker 2: on the same side. They were squished to the strong
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  Speaker 2: side of the formation. Honestly, they just threw the flat.
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  Speaker 2: It was wide open instead of motioning them back.
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  Speaker 1: So second down and one at the 34 yard line.
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  Speaker 1: His French again operates out of the shotgun. Wants to
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  Speaker 1: bring a wide receiver and fly motion. Hands to him
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  Speaker 1: on this near sideline and he's going to have trouble
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  Speaker 1: getting to the edge and he won't get there. Knocked
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  Speaker 1: down by Jonu Hall and knocked down for a loss.
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  Speaker 1: That was the wide receiver Malachi Henry. who gets back
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  Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage, and that's it. Third down
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  Speaker 1: and one coming up here for the Bearcats.
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  Speaker 2: Outstanding job of flowing by the linebackers right there. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: did their job of stocking up the running back, making
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  Speaker 2: sure he could not go north-south. He kept widening, kept widening,
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  Speaker 2: and then the flower, the free hitter, comes free, and
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  Speaker 2: that's Jonah Hall, does a great job of finishing off
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  Speaker 2: that run.
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  Speaker 1: Third down and one, Bearcats at their own 34, just
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  Speaker 1: underway here in Cincinnati. 14 minutes to play in the
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  Speaker 1: first quarter as French goes under center. Movement on the
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  Speaker 1: left side of the line, making the right side of
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  Speaker 1: the line the tight end. Where are they going to
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  Speaker 1: get Kevin Grover moving early? Instead of third down and one,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be third down and six now for the Bearcats.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great job. False start.
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  Speaker 8: Offense, number 87, five-yard penalty.
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  Speaker 5: Third down.
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  Speaker 1: That's our referee, Cravon Barrett, on the microphone right there.
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  Speaker 1: So it becomes a little less manageable now for the
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  Speaker 1: Bearcats as they back it up to the 29-yard line.
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  Speaker 1: And third down and six coming up. Though they may
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  Speaker 1: still run the football. They're that good at it this year.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what they do. J.B. Gibson, the big play
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver, splits out wide to the left-hand side. Malachi
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  Speaker 1: Henry in the right slot. Four receivers and a tailback.
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  Speaker 1: Now the tight end comes in motion on third down
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  Speaker 1: and six. They're going to hand that ball to Coltab.
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  Speaker 1: Up the middle he goes, and he'll be stopped after
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  Speaker 1: a one-yard gain to the 30-yard line. I told you
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  Speaker 1: they might run it. They did, and Utah was ready.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that was a great gap defense right there by Utah.
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  Speaker 2: understanding the tight end coming back in motion. That means
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  Speaker 2: Rabbit Evans, Trey Reynolds, and Jonah Hall are now synced together.
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  Speaker 2: They do a good job of staying on a string.
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  Speaker 2: Rabbit Evans comes in and crashes down that now open
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  Speaker 2: V-gap and stops that for either no gain or one yard.
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  Speaker 1: Fourth and five now as the Australian putter Max Fletcher
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  Speaker 1: comes out to kick it. He's a dandy, and so
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  Speaker 1: is Monte Carvalho, a Utah return man who stands at
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  Speaker 1: his own 29-yard line. It'll be a rugby-style punt. Utah
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  Speaker 1: coming after it. The kick is away. Mana's going to
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  Speaker 1: wave for a fair catch and take it at about
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  Speaker 1: the 23-yard line, and that's where Utah will begin. First
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  Speaker 1: down and 10, as we'll see Devin Dampier and the
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  Speaker 1: Utah offense for the very first time here today. That
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  Speaker 1: was a punt nicely done by Max Fletcher and a
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  Speaker 1: fair catch, so Utah takes over with No market at
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  Speaker 1: the 22, so a 78-yard field here for Devin Dampier.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see if Utah's offense can get off to a
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  Speaker 1: quick start.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, it's exactly what Zach said. Getting the offense,
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  Speaker 2: the ball back really quickly. Starting out empty. Let's see
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  Speaker 2: if we can get down and get some points.
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  Speaker 1: Devin Dampier by himself in the shotgun. We'll see if
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  Speaker 1: they motion a backpack into the backfield here on first
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  Speaker 1: down and 10. Referee late to get back out on
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  Speaker 1: the field. Now he's ready to go. And here we go.
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  Speaker 1: First and 10 Utah. Four man down front for the Bearcats.
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  Speaker 1: Now they'll bring not one but two backs back to
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  Speaker 1: the backfield. Wayshawn Parker and Daniel Bray. Cincinnati shifting it around.
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  Speaker 1: And it's Devin Dampier keeping out on the edge. He'll
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  Speaker 1: pitch it to Bray. He's got the 25, 30, 35,
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  Speaker 1: 40 and out of bounds. He was one step away
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  Speaker 1: from going up the sideline. But a 15, make it
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  Speaker 1: 18-yard gain on first down on the option play to
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Bray.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I love it. You know, watch Dan Pierre here.
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  Speaker 2: He stretches this out as far as he can. He's
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  Speaker 2: literally in the graphs of the defender before he pitches it.
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Bray literally one step and he is gone.
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  Speaker 1: From the 40-yard line, Devin by himself this time. Looking
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  Speaker 1: to throw, completes it out. Boy, he's got to skip
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  Speaker 1: that one. It's complete to Ricky Johnson, making Larry Simmons.
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  Speaker 1: But a short four-yard gain to the 44-yard line. If
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  Speaker 1: that ball's a little bit higher, it's probably a bigger gain.
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  Speaker 1: Now Utah's going to go with some tempo here to
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  Speaker 1: try and keep Cincinnati off balance. Bird Ficklin in the
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  Speaker 1: ballgame for the first time for Utah. They line him
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  Speaker 1: up in the left slot. Devin motions back and Bird
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  Speaker 1: comes with him here on second down and six. Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: with a four-man down front. Devin's going to keep it
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  Speaker 1: himself out on the edge. Throw it down the field.
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  Speaker 1: Caught down the field. Again, short but caught. This time
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  Speaker 1: it's caught by Creed Whittemore at the Cincinnati 44-yard line.
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  Speaker 1: And that's an Ivory Holmes first down.
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  Speaker 2: I love this up-tempo. I love getting the ball out
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  Speaker 2: of Devin's hands really quickly. A big play is going
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  Speaker 2: to open up real soon.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. Five wide receivers set on first and ten.
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  Speaker 1: This time for Devin Dampier. Devin surveys the defense. Still
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  Speaker 1: surveys the defense. And now he takes the snap. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to look and keep it himself straight up the middle.
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  Speaker 1: He is tackled after a short game. About three yards
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  Speaker 1: down to the 41-yard line. Tackled on the play by
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Thompson, the wheel linebacker. Short game. They're going to stay.
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  Speaker 1: Now they'll sub in. Stop the tempo for now.
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely love the play calling right now. The structure
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  Speaker 2: of the play calling. Fling with the defense. Fast, slow,
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  Speaker 2: QB draw. All of these things right here keeps the
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  Speaker 2: defense on it.
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  Speaker 1: The semi truck is in now. Semi Taolonga in the
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  Speaker 1: left slot. Pistol formation with Parker behind Dampier. Semi comes
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  Speaker 1: in motion. Hand off. Devin's going to keep it himself.
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  Speaker 1: Cuts to the inside. Inside the 35. And down to
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  Speaker 1: about the 33-yard line. That's going to be a nine-yard gain.
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  Speaker 1: And another Ivory Holmes first down for the Utes.
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  Speaker 2: I love a great counter play right here, and Devin
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  Speaker 2: keeping the ball was even surprising. I was looking at Wayshon,
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  Speaker 2: but he kept the ball right there and he picks
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  Speaker 2: up a nice first down.
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  Speaker 1: So they have it to the Cincinnati 33-yard line, first
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  Speaker 1: and 10. Dampier and Parker stay in the backfield. Wayshon
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have a touch yet, but we'll see if they
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  Speaker 1: get him one right here. Three receivers in the pattern.
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  Speaker 1: They'll bring Creed Whittemore in motion. Play action pass. Dampier
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  Speaker 1: throws to the outside. Caught on the outside. Short game.
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  Speaker 1: To about the 30-yard line goes Larry Simmons. He'll pick
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  Speaker 1: up three. Almost four yards on first down. Tackle on
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  Speaker 1: the play on the outside by Cincinnati. And the clock
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  Speaker 1: continues to run with 10-20 to play here in the
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  Speaker 1: first quarter. Utah on the move.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. That's essentially a really good running play, right?
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  Speaker 2: Four yards on first down. That's good. You get the
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  Speaker 2: chains moving. But again, you're flexing the defense out, making
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  Speaker 2: them hard to chase you.
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  Speaker 1: Full house backfield inverted with Braid, Dampier, and Sione. Now
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  Speaker 1: Parker motions out, they throw that ball to Weishon. Weishon's
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  Speaker 1: got it up the field, he'll run over one man,
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  Speaker 1: two men, and out of bounds near the Cincinnati 22.
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  Speaker 1: Very close to first down yardage. We'll see if they
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  Speaker 1: decide to give it to him here. He's again very,
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  Speaker 1: very close. Let's see what the referee says. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to say no, it's going to be third down and
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  Speaker 1: short here. Or did they move? Nope, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: move the chains. They do give him the game. That's
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  Speaker 1: a gain of seven and a first down for Utah, again,
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  Speaker 1: now right on the edge of the red zone.
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  Speaker 2: Great decision making by Devin Dampier, throwing that back to
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  Speaker 2: Wayshon and allowing him the space to pick up that
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  Speaker 2: first down.
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  Speaker 1: Devin four for four on the drive for 27 yards,
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  Speaker 1: first and ten as Hunter Andrews comes in motion this time.
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  Speaker 1: Pitch to the outside, Daniel Bray's got it, to the 20,
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  Speaker 1: to the 15, shaken and baconed down to about the
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  Speaker 1: 14 yard line goes Bray. That'll be a gain of
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  Speaker 1: eight yards on first down and into the Canyon View
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  Speaker 1: Credit Union red zone. Go to Utes.
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  Speaker 2: Man, he runs so hard, doesn't he? As soon as
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  Speaker 2: he gets the ball, man, it looks like lightning in
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  Speaker 2: a bottle. And he gets down there. That was eight
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  Speaker 2: yards so fast. And that's a good job by going
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  Speaker 2: up-tempo by this offense, putting the pressure on the defense.
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  Speaker 1: Defensive player of the week in the Big 12, M.J.
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  Speaker 1: Cannon made the tackle. Second down and two for the Utes.
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  Speaker 1: Two backs again in the backfield, Bray and Dampier, along
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  Speaker 1: with Wayshawn Parker. Three receivers in the pattern here for Utah.
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  Speaker 1: Two on the right-hand side on second down and two.
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  Speaker 1: Here comes Andrews in motion, inside handoff. Way Sean Parker
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  Speaker 1: thrown down behind the line of scrimmage. Josh Huff got him.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent play by the defensive line that time. That'll bring
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  Speaker 1: up third down, and we'll call it about five.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that the defense had everything covered on
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  Speaker 2: that one right there. If they handed it off, kept it,
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, it was going to be a negative play
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  Speaker 2: for Utah. Good job by Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 4: On that play.
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  Speaker 1: Utah's first third down on this drive. It's a third
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  Speaker 1: down at about four, almost five yards. Got to get
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  Speaker 1: to the Cincinnati 12 for a first down. Out of
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  Speaker 1: the shotgun, Devin Dampier. Cincinnati showing pressure. No motion. Ficklin
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  Speaker 1: out of the backfield. Devin drops the throw over the middle.
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  Speaker 1: He's got his man. That's the tight end. Inside the 10.
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  Speaker 1: Inside the 5 goes Hunter Andrews. And down to the
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati 3-yard line. It's first and goal Utah.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely stellar decision right there by Devin. Hunter's been open
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  Speaker 2: for a while right there. But good yak yards right
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  Speaker 2: there by Hunter as well. Two hands on the football.
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  Speaker 2: Up the middle, getting all the way down to the
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  Speaker 2: two-yard line.
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  Speaker 1: Dampier now five for five for 41 yards here on
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  Speaker 1: the opening drive. 7.45 to play, clock running. First and goal,
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  Speaker 1: Utah from the Cincinnati three-yard line. Flags fly, and what
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  Speaker 1: do we have? It's going to be motion and procedure
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  Speaker 1: on the University of Utah. And now they're trash-talking up
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  Speaker 1: front on Devin Dampier. It looked like that might have been.
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  Speaker 8: False start. Offense, number 10, five-yard penalty.
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  Speaker 5: First down.
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  Speaker 1: It was Hunter Andrews that started just a little bit early.
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  Speaker 1: So first and goal back at about the eight yard
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  Speaker 1: line now for Utah. Still playbook wide open here for
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  Speaker 1: the Utes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like first and down from the eight. It's
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  Speaker 2: not like it really hurts you at all. So Utah's
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  Speaker 2: got to take advantage of this. Coach McGiven's got to
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  Speaker 2: really put it in. We don't want to give Cincinnati's
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  Speaker 2: defense an opportunistic defense any confidence.
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  Speaker 1: Backfield empty for Dampier as he motions Parker out on
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  Speaker 1: first and goal from the Cincinnati 8-yard line. Bearcats showing
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  Speaker 1: pressure off the edge. Devin drops the pass. Now he's
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  Speaker 1: going to keep it himself straight ahead. He'll get inside
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  Speaker 1: the 5 and almost back to the original line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 1: The 3 gets down at the 4 for a 4-yard gain.
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  Speaker 1: Second down and goal coming up for Devin Dampier in
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: the Utes.
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, very good. Again, I would continue running the ball.
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: I'd put these rhinos back there, keep the pressure on
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: that defense if you want to run play action out
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: of that. What I saw on film is that these
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: guys crash hard, right? Aggressive, opportunistic defense. They play really hard,
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: which means you're able to get them off of their keys.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: So a little misdirection right there with some play action
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: would be nice.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Second and goal with Parker in the backfield for the
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: four-yard line. Dampier barking out signals. Now he takes the snap.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: Throws to the end zone. Wide open. Hunter Andrews and
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: into the end zone. That's a touchdown. He could not
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: have been more wide open. And Dampier found him for six.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: And this is exactly what we were talking about with
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: them being aggressive and crashing down. Honestly, the guy that
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: was lined up over Hunter Andrews turned out to the
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: X receiver while there was another defender out there. I
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: was like, why did you do that? But, yeah, he
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: was wide open. Great job by Devin Dampier. Seeing that
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: right off the line of scrimmage. Touchdown, youths. This is
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: a great way to start fast.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Second touchdown of the year for Hunter Andrews. A Pepsi touchdown.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Dylan Curtis on to attempt the extra point. The kick
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: is up, and the kick is good. And with 6.37
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: to play here in the first quarter, it's Utah 7-0.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: And the Cincinnati Bearcats, nothing. That drive could not have
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: gone any better for Utah and the crowd quiet here
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: at Nippert Stadium. We'll come back to the Big O
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Tires broadcast booth next. This is Utah football from ESPN
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: 700 and the Ute Sports Radio Network.
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: You're listening to Utah football brought to you by Big
• 15:46
  Speaker 7: O Tires on ESPN 700 and the Ute Sports Network.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: That scoring drive for Utah, the seventh time in eight
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: games now. They've scored a touchdown on their opening drive.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: 12th play, 78 yards, 619. Devin Dampier, 6 of 6,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: 45 yards and a touchdown. And Zach Moss, you said
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Utah needed a fast start today. What'd you like about
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: that drive? Zach, what'd you like about that drive?
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Dylan Curtis.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: We'll get back down to Zach coming up here in
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: just a minute. I'll tell you what I liked about
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: that drive. Everything.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Right. I, too. I liked everything. I loved the run,
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: mix and pass, getting the ball out of Devin's hands,
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: stretching the defense out like crazy. The defense's head was
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: spinning all over the place. They didn't know what to cover.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: They hit so many different receivers. So many people touched
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: the ball. That was an excellent offensive drive to start
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: this game.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Dylan Curtis has it teed up, ready to go. Zylan
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Perry back deep to receive this kick. It's returnable if
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: he wants to, but he chooses not to. Three yards
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: deep in the end zone lets it go through. And Cincinnati,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: after going three and out on their opening drive, comes
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: back out, but now they're trailing 7-0.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're going to try to scramble, but this
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: is exactly playing into the hands that we want. They're
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: going to continue to run the ball here on this drive,
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: so defense has to buckle down and make sure they're
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: reading their keys. A unique style offense, too. Again, we
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: want to get the ball into J.C. French's hands to
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: try to win this game.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Cole Tabb lines up in a pistol formation. They split
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: three receivers out wide to the left-hand side on first
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: down and 10. Utah shifting five men around at the
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Going to run the option to the outside.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Tabb's got it.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: 25-30.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Back to the inside.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: 40.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Back to the outside. And tripped up and finally taken
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: down by Elijah Ellis at the Cincinnati 48-yard line. That's
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: a gain on the play of 23 yards on a
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: reverse pivot option by Cincinnati that Utah wasn't ready for.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: I hate that I saw that the entire time.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Utah's having trouble with Cole Tabb right now. Five receivers
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: on first and ten for the 48. His French lines
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: up by himself. Now they'll shift personnel around, bring Tabb
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: back in the backfield.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: I love him.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Three receivers, tight end in the left slot. They'll bring
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: a receiver across the formation. Now Tab trying to bust it,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: and he'll pick up about three to the Utah 49,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and that's it on first down. Second down and seven
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: coming up. Cash Dillon made the tackle for Utah as
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: the Bearcats cross into Utah territory for the first time today.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, good job by Cash Dillon and Jairo Moe. They
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: had a little stunt up front, and that helped still
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: make the offensive line, make Colt Tab. go north to
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: south only picking up a couple yards.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Tab stays in the ball game as the tailback. He
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: was the big play hitter a week ago. Now they'll
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: line him up here in the near slots. Empty backfield.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Keep an eye on the quarterback keeper here. On second
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: down and seven, French will use his legs. He's going
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: to backpedal to throw. Blitz coming to the outside. He
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: goes incomplete. They were trying to get that ball to Tab.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Hall had the coverage. Third down coming. They brought the
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: blitz off the edge right in the face, too, of J.C. French.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: That would have been a pick six right there. Jonah
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Hall did a great job of reading that. That was
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: quick out by the running back. I think J.C. French
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: saw it and threw it a little high right there.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: But if that was on target, that was going to
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: be a pick six in the house by Jonah Hall.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Third down and seven down for the Bearcats. 0 for
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: 1 today on third down. 5.23 to play here in
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the first quarter. 7-0 Utah. They line three receivers up
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: wide to the left-hand side. Tab stays in the backfield.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: He'll catch him out of the backfield. He's got 14
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: catches this year. Utah showing pressure at the line on
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: third down and seven. As French looks at the defense.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Now he'll take the snap and backpedal. Here comes Utah
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: off the edge. French stepping up, throwing over the middle.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: He's got a man caught on the run and down
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: to the Utah 34-yard line. That's Malachi Henry who made
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the catch on the play.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a great job by J.C. French at stepping up
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: into the puck. We just got to make this play.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: He's right there. You got to pull him down right there.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Hands in the passing lane. We had all of that.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: It's just Jason French made one extra step and got
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: the ball right in there.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Utah late to sub here. First and 10, Bearcats. They'll
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: mark him at the 35-yard line. That's a completion on
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the play to Johnson, not Malachi Henry. of 14 yards.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Pistol formation, handoff, cold tab, bouncing, making men miss, stripping
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: out of one tackle, and picking up six yards down
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: to the 29-yard line. He's slippery now at only 5'8,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: but you've got to wrap him up. Tackle made by
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Elijah Davis.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: And that's what we can't have. We can't have those
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: missed tackles when you have the opportunity to bring him
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: down at the line of scrimmage or backfield. He gets
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: a lot of energy from those yak yards.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Second down and four now at the Utah 29. Bearcats
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: on the move after going three and out on their
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: opening drive. Zylan Perry the back of the backfield this time.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: French to pass. Looking outside, throwing outside, and overshooting his man. Again,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: he had a hand in his face that time with
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Lance Holtzclaw trying to get that ball to JV Gibson.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was wondering why he threw that route. That
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: route is normally you throw that switch route. They want
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: to have a slot fade on that. Jackson Bennett covered
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: that extremely well. But even with the coverage, you normally
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: throw that outside. But he took that outside throw right
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: there to our luck. Now it's third down.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: One for two on third down to the Bearcats. Very
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: manageable here from the Utah 29. Third down and four.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Payne the tailback. Three receivers for French who surveys the
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Utah defense. Now he backpedals to throw, throwing that fade ball,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: tipped and caught. At the Utah 20, do they say
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: caught or incomplete? They're going to say incomplete now. The
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: ball hit the ground before he got it. The ball
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: was tipped. I think Nate Ritchie may have gotten his
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: hand on it.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Nate Ritchie does a great job of stepping in
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: the passing lane right here and getting a hand on
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: that play. But Elijah Badger's got to be there for
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: that tip to make sure that doesn't get complete. That
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: very easily could have been a completed pass. But great
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: job right there at forcing Cincinnati to kick a field
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: goal here and force a fourth down.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: This will be about a 47-yard attempt for Steven Rusnack.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: His long this year is 54 yards. He's four of six.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: He's a lefty. So this will go in down just
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: inside the left hash. Let's see if Utah comes after
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: him here. You can't jump early if you're Utah. Place
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: is good. The kick is away.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: It's high.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: It's end over end. And it's good. He drilled it through.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Would have been good from 57 yards that time for Rusnak.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: And the Bearcats are on the board with a timeout
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: on the field and 4-0-1 to play here in the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: first quarter. Rusnak drills it from 47 to make it
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: 7-3 Utah. Our first half being brought to you by Minky.
• 22:00
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• 22:03
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• 22:10
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• 22:13
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• 22:15
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• 22:19
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• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Back in Cincinnati, the Bearcats go nine plays, 46 yards,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: kick a 47-yard field goal, take 236 off the clock,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: and they're back in it here, 7-3 our score. Let's
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: go back down to the sideline as Utah's going to
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: get it back here. Our sideline reporter and a Ken
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Garf sideline update. Zach, what did you like most about
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: that first drive that Utah marched down the field and
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: scored on?
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: I love the RPO offense that they came out with.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: You know, the corners are playing at least seven, eight
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: yards off the ball. So you can tell this was
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: a design plan attack to come out in the RPO game. And,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: you know, Devin Damper absolutely executed it perfectly. So going
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: to see it. Be interested to see if Cincinnati entrusts
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: us to that.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Zach, thank you. Sideline Update brought to you by Ken Garf.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: We hear you. PA system really loud here at Nippert Stadium.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Good crowd, not a sellout crowd here today as they
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: had a week ago against Texas Tech. That last field
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: goal made by Cincinnati. Steven Rusnak brought to you by G2G.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: When you eat one, you'll know. Daniel Bray back to
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: receive this kick. Rusnak has it teed up at his
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: own 35. Puts his left foot into it. Drives it
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: high and drives it deep. Daniel's going to let it go.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: And Utah will take over first and 10 on their
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: own 25-yard line. Devin Dampier was terrific on the opening drive.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Let's see if he can keep it up here. Six
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: for six, 45 yards in the touchdown. They did a
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: really good job, Kevin McGiven did, of mixing and matching
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: those plays.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love the tempo. The tempo is what kept
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: the defense on their toes because when you go tempo,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: the defense can't put their unique play calls in. They've
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: got to go ultra vanilla, cover three, cover two, cover one.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: That's all they can do. They can't really do all
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: the unique sets. So the up tempo kept the defense
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: on their toes, allowed us to execute the RPO, the
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: running game. and all of those things that we saw on.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: That first drive.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: First and 10, Utah at their own 25. 4.01 to
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: play here on the first bird. Ficklin comes in motion
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: as a wide receiver. Devin rolls to his right, looks
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: down the field, throws down the field. He's got Pagan
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: wide open, caught and out of bounds at the Utah
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: 44-yard line. That'll be a gain of 19 in an
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Ivory Holmes first down.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Wow, that execution was awesome. He paused in the pocket,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: then rolled all the way out, setting up this deep
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: out route by Brady Pagan. He came wide open on that.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Great job, great route, great throw.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Devin now seven for seven. Out of the game go
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the running backs. Rhino backs of the ball. Game three
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: receivers for Devin who lines up by himself at the backfield.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati's going to rush forward. Devin's going to run and
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: throw and throw it outside to Pagan. He's got it
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: beyond the 50 to the Cincinnati 49-yard line. That'll be
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: a gain of seven on first down for Braden Pagan.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, got him up to the 48. They're going to
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: get him to the 48 yard line.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: That's going to be an 8-yard game then on first down.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely terrific job. Great route, RPO, really quick action
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: right there. Again, getting the ball out of Devin Dampier's hands,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: quick into your athlete's hands.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Now they bring Parker back in the backfield, lined up
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: in a pistol formation. They're going to hand that ball
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: to Wayshawn. He's following his blockers, trying to bounce to
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: the outside. Wayshawn's going to be dropped for a loss.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: He's going to lose 4 yards. Back to the 49-yard line,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: almost three yards on that loss.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Wow, great job by Jacob Finley on that play right there.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Because Wayshon understood, look, I got one-on-one with the corner.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: 98% of the time he's going to win that. But
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Finley does a great job of squaring him up right there.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: And as Wayshawn loses a couple yards, he continues to
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: drive him right there. Wayshawn wasn't able to get his
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: stiff arm in there to get him away.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Third down and five. Utah one for one on third down.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Wayshawn stays in the ballgame. Four wide receivers set here
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: for Devin. Cincinnati showing pressure. Devin backpedals to pass. Looking, looking, looking, looking, looking.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Still nothing there. He's scrambling. Now he's going to run
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: it himself. Devin Dampier, 45. Devin Dampier, 40. Devin Dampier
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: out of bounds at the Cincinnati 39-yard line for a
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: gain of 12 in an Ivory Holmes first down. Decision-making.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: You got to love it. They dropped eight. They look
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: like they're coming with pressure. They only rushed three. Great
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: job by the offensive line at providing ample time for
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: him to do that. Gets the first down with his legs.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, he had Creed Whittemore streaking down the middle of
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: the field, too.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But he picked up the first down. It's hard
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: to see in drop eight coverage.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Yes, it is.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: First and ten for the Cincinnati 39-yard line. Parker in
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the ballgame. Cincinnati showing a run blitz. Play action throw
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: over the middle and behind the wide receiver, Brayden Pagan,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: who may have been held up just a little bit
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: that time. But no flag comes. Second down and 10
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: coming here for Utah.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Well, that's a read right there. And I don't think
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: that Pagan got that. They saw the blitz coming. That
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: means Devin's going to pull it quick. That's non-communication signals
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: that needed to happen right there. Pagan had to see
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: the safety come down. And it looked quick. He just
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: didn't look quick enough.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: First miss today for Devin. He's eight out of nine.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Second down and 10. Just inside the Cincinnati 40 as
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Pagan comes in motion. play action pass pumping throwing over
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the middle caught that's Hunter Andrews again on a dive
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: the tight end has it inside the 25 and down
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: to the Cincinnati 22 yard line and Utah's got to
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: go with tempo now first down and 10. Devin lines
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: up with a shotgun, throws to the outside again. That's
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: caught out there. That's going to be first down yardage.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Pagan to the 15, to the 14, and out of bounds.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Just shy of first down yardage as he picks up
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: eight on first down.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Great job right there, getting the ball out of the hand.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: I love this up-tempo. As I said, you're keeping your
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: defense on edge right there. We can do so much
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: with the versatility of formations and personnel that we have.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: The defense just can't get a grasp on it.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Utah subbing, Cincinnati subbing. First down, make it second down
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: and two. At the Cincinnati 14 yard line, second trip
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: inside the Canyon View Credit Union Red Zone today. Daniel Bray,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: the back of the ball game this time for Utah.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Evan Dampier takes the snap, delayed handoff. Daniel Bray, and
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: he's going to fall forward very close to first down yardage.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Going to be about a half yard shy. He got
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: about one on the play. Good wrap up by Jacob Finley,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the corner crashing down again. So third down and short.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they got the big boys in now. Third down
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: and a half yard right here. Now way shine. We
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: can get the one on one. Don't try to do extra.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Just go straight north and south. Pick up this first
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: down so we don't have to first fourth decision on
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: fourth down.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Parker's got two carries for minus six yards today. Cincinnati's
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: done a good job on him. They break the huddle quickly.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Devin goes under center. Rhinos slotted to the right-hand side,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: turning to give Weishan Parker to the 10, to the 5,
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  Speaker 1: into the end zone, touchdown!
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  Speaker 2: Untouched!
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  Speaker 9: Weishan Parker from 12 yards out, and it's a back-to-back
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  Speaker 9: Utah scoring drive, and another Utah touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Their defense cannot handle this. This is what we expected, right?
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  Speaker 2: I know in the beginning of the season, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: this is a 14-point... Per quarter offense. We're showing it today.
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  Speaker 4: Eight.
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  Speaker 5: Look.
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  Speaker 2: Outstanding.
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  Speaker 4: Blocking.
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  Speaker 2: Running. Decision making by Devin Dampier. Is absolutely terrific today.
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  Speaker 1: Point after touchdown coming here for Dylan Curtis. High snap.
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  Speaker 1: Kick is up. Kick is good. That touchdown. A Pepsi touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: And Wayshawn Parker has nine rushing touchdowns this year. 13
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: all told on the season. And Utah goes nine plays.
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  Speaker 1: 75 yards and 347 touchdowns. And Wayshon Parker's 13-yard touchdown
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: run makes it Utah 14 and Cincinnati 3. For the
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  Speaker 1: Big O Tires broadcast booth, a timeout on the field.
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  Speaker 1: football from ESPN 700 and the Ute Sports Radio Network.
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  Speaker 7: You're listening to Utah football brought to you by Bamboo
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  Speaker 7: HR on ESPN 700 and the Ute Sports Network.
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  Speaker 1: Back at Nippers Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. Our broadcast today
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• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Utah's got two drives and they've got 158 yards already.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Zach Moss down on the sideline. Zach, that's back-to-back outstanding
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  Speaker 1: drives by Utah's offense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're just going down here attacking this defense, man.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of stuff out here that they can do, right?
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  Speaker 3: We talked about this defense not actually being really good
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: and being able to hold up. They capitalized off a turnover,
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  Speaker 3: so As long as we keep the ball out of
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  Speaker 3: their hands and up the turn, we'll be okay.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Zach. Sideline update brought to you by Ken Garf.
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  Speaker 1: We hear you. Utah's already got nine first downs in
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the ballgame. They've got 102 more yards than Cincinnati. Bearcats
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  Speaker 1: will get it here, trailing 14-3 with 14 seconds to
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  Speaker 1: play here in the first quarter. Shout out to my
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Uncle Pat, Pat Riley, not the former... Lakers and Knicks
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: and Miami Heat coach. He doesn't slick his hair back
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: that way, but he's driving back to Detroit today. Came
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: in to see me last night. Heading back up I-75
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  Speaker 1: to Motown. Uncle Pat, love you. Be safe. And thanks
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: for the pickup last night. The boys missed us, though,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: at dinner last night. They had a good time at
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: dinner without us.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, man, we went to a place with lights in
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: the floor.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Wow. That's fancy.
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  Speaker 2: It's fancy.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: That's fancy. Zylan Perry back deep to receive this kick.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Dylan Curtis for the third time today has it teed
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: up and ready to go. Puts his right foot into it,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: drives it high and end over end. Zylan Perry wants
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: nothing of it. And Cincinnati will get it first and
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: ten at their own 25-yard line. So the Utes stop
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: them three and out on the opening drive. Bearcats move
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  Speaker 1: 46 yards, get a field goal on the last drive.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Should this defense start to be able to figure this
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati team out by now?
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: What I saw was we blitzed and we really liked it.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: So I think that Colton Swann is going to start
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: licking his chop now. Expect to see a lot more
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: blitzes in this coming drive, which is great because that's
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: what we did. We saw blood in the water last
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: week against Connor Wegman, and then this week we're going
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: to see that again here really early.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame transfer Payne in the backfield. Pistol formation first
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  Speaker 1: and ten. Cincinnati from their own 25 yard line. JC
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  Speaker 1: French wants the snap, takes the snap. Decides a little
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: play action to his tight end who's got running room.
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  Speaker 1: 35-40 and out of bounds at the Utah. 46 yard line.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: That's Smith the tight end. That was way too easy.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Utah bid on the run. Smith drifted out into the flat.
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  Speaker 1: And that'll be the last play of the first quarter.
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  Speaker 1: They pick up 21 yards on that. Utah's giving up
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: a 23-yard run and a 21-yard run. And we've got
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  Speaker 1: a timeout on the field. One quarter in the books
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  Speaker 1: here at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 5: This is the end of the first quarter.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: I said that already. It's Utah 14 and Cincinnati 3
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  Speaker 1: for the Big O Tires broadcast booth. This is Utah
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  Speaker 1: football from ESPN 700 and the Ute Sports Radio Network.
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  Speaker 7: You're listening to Utah Football, brought to you by Pepsi
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: on ESPN 700 and the Ute Sports Network.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Today's first half here at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio,
• 32:57
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• 33:00
  Speaker 1: easy to enjoy. After a quarter of football, Utah leads
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: at 14-3. We head to the second quarter. Numbers from
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: our friend Dave Spadafore, Utah 158 yards, 76 for Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 1: 98 through the air, 60 on the ground for Utah,
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  Speaker 1: 34 through the air, 42 on the ground for the Bearcats,
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  Speaker 1: nine first downs for Utah, three for Cincinnati, Utah three
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  Speaker 1: for three on third down, Cincinnati one for three, Utah's
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: run 21 plays, Cincinnati just 11, but the Bearcats got
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: a nice play on first down, and they move 21 yards,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: they've got it first and 10 at their own 46
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  Speaker 1: as we get into second quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, it was great. I like the offensive defense production.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: As we know, that Coltap is a very good running back,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: so he's gotten a couple big chunk plays in the
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: running game against us. But aside from that, it's been
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: a stellar job by this defense. As I said at
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: the end of the first quarter, I really feel like
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: we feel blood in the water right now. I saw
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: we got some success blitzing J.C. French on that last drive,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: so I see them trying to do that here again
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: on this drive. On that first play... That was a
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: very unique play. It's very hard to see on the
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: defensive side of the ball. So I get it, and
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: I understand the person whose fault it is. I get it.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: I understand. That was a great play design by Cincinnati.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Good job by Utah at making the play right there.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: So the Bearcats will change sides, but not by much.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: First and 10 at their own 46-yard line. Trailing 14-3.
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  Speaker 1: Not quite a sellout crowd this week that they had
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: last week for the Brendan Sorsby Bowl here in Cincinnati.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Student section in full effect, but not so much for
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: the rest of the stadium that holds about 39,000. So
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: they're marking it at 45, first and 10 here for
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the Bearcats. J.C. French lines up. And the tailback is Payne, 5'8, senior, 5'10,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: senior from right here in Cincinnati, Ohio. Got a tight
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: end of the right slot. First down handoff, Payne breaking
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  Speaker 1: to the outside, and he'll pick up four to about
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: the 49-yard line. Marking down at the 48, so a
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: three-yard gain. Cyrus Polu had a really nice game last week.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: The sophomore linebacker made the stop on that play, second
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  Speaker 1: down at seven.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good job by everybody at flowing to the ball
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  Speaker 2: right there. Stopping at just a four-yard gain.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Tight end in the backfield this time. Offset eye formation.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Payne stays in at tailback. Second down at seven as
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: French surveys the Utah defense. Utes with six in the box.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Now they'll shift that personnel around. Tight end comes into
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the left slot. Now Payne turns around and says, or
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: French says something to Payne. Turn and play action. Throw
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  Speaker 1: to the outside, and it's caught. That's going to be
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: first down yardage into Utah territory, and they wrestle the
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: wide receiver, J.B. Gibson, the Oklahoma transfer down at the
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Utah 42-yard line. It's a pitch and catch for a
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: first down. And a gain of about 10 yards.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: That's just good operation right there. That was good coverage
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: right there by Bobo Chanel. But that was just a
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: quick pass and catch. He wasn't like he was far
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: off of him. That was just good operation by Cincinnati.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Payne stays in it. Tail back to the Utah 42-yard line.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Turn and a give to Payne. This time he's wrapped
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  Speaker 1: up and taken down. The ball comes out.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Utah scoops it. That's Johnnie Hall. They get Rabbit Evans. 15-10-5. Touchdown. Touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: It's a scoop and a score for Rabbit and a
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: touchdown for the University of Utah.
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  Speaker 5: Will it on the field? It's a fumble. Return for
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: a touchdown.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Ethan Day was the man who jarred the ball loose
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: for Utah, and Rabbit Evans, living up to his name,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: scooped it and took it back for a Utah touchdown.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, man, that was just a great job of team
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: defense right there, collapsing on that. But looking at the replay,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: he kind of hit the ground. I would say the
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: ground caused the fumble, which is going to make that comeback.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: We'll see if they decide to review it here. The
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: call on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Which I'm glad they let it play out. It's exactly
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: what you're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 5: The previous play of a fumble is under further review.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, anyways, I liked being able to draw down onto
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: the running back right there, cutting off that north and
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: south track. What we saw with the great run defense
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: last week with Lance Holesquad and the defensive ends right
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: there of crashing down, cutting off the north and south
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: track of the running back. It's just a great job
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: right there of being very aggressive and physical on the
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: tackle and making that ball come out. As I said,
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: I I think the ground caused that fumble. So this
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: one should come back.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: So we're going to take a look at it right
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  Speaker 1: here on the replay. And let's see. I don't know.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: It's 50-50. His knees were on top of a couple
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: of Utah defenders here. The fact that they called it
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: a scoop and score touchdown is going to make it
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: tough for them to overturn this.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: But does his elbow make the ball come out?
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't had a good look at it.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I don't see anything conclusive here.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Well, I like the non-conclusion. That goes to us.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I think that ball's coming out. Before his elbow hit
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: the ground, I think the ball's coming out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll take it.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Now, again, we'll see. The officials taking a look at it.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: There's a Big 12 replay center as well. But I
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: think this is going to stand. I think this is
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: going to be a scoop and score of 51 yards
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  Speaker 1: for Rabbit Evans.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a pick six, but I'll take it, man.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: The defense getting into the end zone. I absolutely love it. Aggression.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: This is exactly the momentum swing we need in this
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: game to really put it on Cincinnati today.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I think that ball is out. But again, I don't
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: have all the looks. We're looking at the TV replays.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: The officials have more than we do.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: We've been surprised before.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Yes, we have.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, here, I like it. I'll take it. But
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: for me, I saw the elbow hit and that ball
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: come out on that. But we don't have the greatest
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: TV angle here.
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  Speaker 7: In the booth.
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  Speaker 8: After review, the ruling on the field of a fumble
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: has been upheld.
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  Speaker 5: Touchdown.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: That's the first defensive touchdown of the year for the
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: University of Utah here in game number eight. It's not
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: the pick six. It's a scoop and a score for
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Rabbit Evans. But a huge play by the Utah defense.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: And a PAT will make it 21-3 here early in
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  Speaker 1: the second quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. I love it. Defensive score. What did
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: good coach P say? Four and a score. All right.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: I'll take it. That's a good on the way to
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: track on that.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: We've got one in a score right now. Somewhere John
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Pease would be smiling. That kick is up and that
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: kick is good. And with 13 points. to play here
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: in the first half at Nippert Stadium, Utah scored twice
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: on offense and once on defense. That defensive touchdown brought
• 39:38
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• 39:43
  Speaker 1: on the field. We're back to Nippert Stadium with a
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Utah kickoff. And the Utes leading at 21-3 from ESPN
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: 700 and the Utes Sports Radio Network.
• 39:52
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• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Today's first half being brought to you by Bud Light.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Easy to drink and easy to enjoy. 21-3 Utah right
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: now with 13-43. They scored on their first two offensive drives,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: and on Cincinnati's third offensive drive, the ball knocked out
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: by Ethan Day, scooped up by Rabbit Evans, and returned
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: 51 yards for a touchdown, and Utah in control right now.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's exactly what you wanted to have happen. Utah
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: being opportunistic, not even just falling at it. But for me,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: I got to credit the refs for letting that play out.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: So many times, refs will blow the whistle before they
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: actually know what happened right there. But letting that play
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: out allowed defense to get a touchdown on that right there.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: That's easy offense for this Utah football team right there
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: as a defensive touchdown.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Not much wind here today at Nippert Stadium. And Dylan
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Curtis for the fourth time today. He's getting a workout
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: with that right leg already. He'll tee it up at
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: his own 35-yard line. And kick it from the north
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: to the south here in Cincinnati, Ohio. 21-3 Utah. Zylan
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Perry back deep to receive. He's returned a few this year.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: 21 average. Back in 2023, when he was at Louisiana,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: he led the NCAA in kick return yardage that year.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: But here's another one he's just going to let go.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: That would hit the B and Bearcats in the end
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: zone and will come out to the 25-yard line. It's
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: weird to say it with 13.43 to play in the half,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: but this is a huge drive for Cincinnati. They're down
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: 21-3 already right here.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Well, this is the nail in the coffin type play
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: because I don't even think you can make halftime adjustments
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: to coach this, right? This is kind of the situation
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: that we had in the Kansas game. We had the
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: opportunity to go up 21-0 on them, but we let
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: them back in the game. And next thing you know,
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: it's only a one-score game at halftime. So here, if
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Utah's defense can put them away here, this might be
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: the nail in the coffin to start this game.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Payne who fumbled out of the ballgame. Cold tab back in.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: First and ten Bearcats from their own 25-yard line. They're
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: going to turn and give it a cold tab. He's
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: going to bounce to the outside at the 25. He's
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: got the 30 and hammered down at the 31-yard line.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Did the ball.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Come out again?
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Let's see what the officials say. They're going to say
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Utah football.
• 42:13
  Speaker 9: They're going to say Utah football. Recovered by Elijah Ellis.
• 42:17
  Speaker 9: Fumbled by Cole Tabb. It's going back to the Utes.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: It's a great job because the offensive guy lands on
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: top of... Oh, my gosh.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: The rule on the field is a fumble recovered by Utah.
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: First down.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Cold tap never goes down because he lands on top
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: of Rabbit Evans. See the replay right here. He lands
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: on top of Rabbit Evans. And then Elijah Ellis comes
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: and rips the ball out. Great job. Yes, that's a turnover. Oh,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: my gosh. I love it. Great job by Tui at
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: being opportunistic at the right time.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Back-to-back fumbles on back-to-back plays for Cincinnati and Utah set up.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Maybe with a dagger opportunity here. First and 10 at
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: the Bearcat 30.
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  Speaker 2: Go for it. Scene route.
• 42:57
  Speaker 8: After review, the runner was down at the 30-yard line.
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  Speaker 5: Second down, Cincinnati.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm not sure. His hand went down.
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: I didn't see his.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Elbow go down.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: I didn't see it.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Did his knee go down? Okay. Okay. We were just
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: told that his knee went down at about the 30-yard line.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Morgan's probably thinking about challenging this. He's staying by the ref.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: He might call timeout. He's waiting to make sure his
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: guys can review the play as much as possible. That
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: was a great job by Elijah Ellis before anything. Yeah,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: watch this. This is a great job. He's probably going
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: to call timeout so they can review this.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: No, he's not going to call timeout. It'll be second
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: down and five here for the Bearcats from their own
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: 30-yard line. So not a fumble by Tabb, he stays
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: in the ball game. Utah with a four-man down front
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: on second down and five. JC French signaling to his
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: wide receivers, looking to throw to the outside, throwing to
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: the outside, throws it away. He had three receivers in
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: the area, one defensive back, and he missed them all.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Third down and five, he was trying maybe to get
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: that ball to his tight end, Smith, but he wasn't
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: close to anybody.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: No, because he did a hot route, right? The original
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: route was that tight end going out there, but he
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: did a hot route because they had numbers over here.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: And so he had one guy going hot and then
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: the tight end going out there at the same time.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: So he had two guys in the way, made him
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: hold the ball for a second too long and had
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: to throw it away.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Bearcats one for three on third down. Utah showing pressure
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: here on third down and five. He's going to change
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: the play now. Three receivers split wide to the right-hand side.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: The total tailback is Cole Tabb. Now he's changing the
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: play again. Utah's going to rush four here on third
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: down and five and drop into coverage. French looking, French looking,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: French looking to the end. Oh, he's got a man
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: wide open at the 45, 40, 35, 30. Nate Ritchie
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: in a foot race shoves him out of bounds. Cade Wolford.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: All by himself. That was a terrible break in the defense.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: And Wolford goes all the way to the Utah 8-yard line.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: 62 yards.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know who's the bust on that. Jackson Binney.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: and thinks he's going to push him or pass him
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: off to the corner. He's supposed to be dropping in
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: the third is what Jackson Binney thought, but the corner
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: stayed in the flat. So he had two defenders in
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: the flat and one guy free in the backfield.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: First and goal at the Utah eight-yard line for Cincinnati.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: And the left tackle, Joe Cotton, moved early. They'll back
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: him up five yards.
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: False start. Offense, number 74, five-yard.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: Penalty, first down. Malachi Henry, who's averaging 30 yards a
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: catch this year, got 62 on that grab, but that
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: was just a busted coverage.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: That was just way too easy right there, and that's
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: just a miscommunication. I know Jackson Bidney thought the corner
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: was supposed to drop because he widened the receiver towards
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: the corner as he was going to the flat, but
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: the corner stayed with the guy in the flat right there,
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: and that guy was just wide open in thirds.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: First and goal back at the 13-yard line here for
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: the Bearcats. Tab stays in at tailback, French in the shotgun. J.C.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: French going to throw. Pumps once to his right, looks
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: to the end zone, has a man there.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Incomplete.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: Flags fly. Might be a hold on Cincinnati. And I
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: think they may get, they were trying to get that
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: ball to Isaiah Johnson. They may get Millen for a
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: hold on Lance Holdsclaw. Let's see the call.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: Holding. Offense.
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: Number 71. 10-yard penalty. First down.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're going to back him up now. It's going
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: to be first down and goal back at about the
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: 23-yard line now for Cincinnati.
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: That's good.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: You got an opportunity here on the defense to force
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: a field goal after a big defensive gaffe of letting
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: that big pass play through. Hopefully we can be opportunistic
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: again and get another turnover.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: So back them up to about the 22 and a
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: half yard line. Cole Tabbs stays in the ballgame. Three
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: receivers on the left hand side and only two defensive
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: backs out here for Utah right now. There's two defensive backs.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Now they'll ship Rabbit Evans into the slot on first
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: down and goal back at the 22 and a half
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: yard line. J.C.
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: French.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Gonna keep it himself right up the middle. He's tackled
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: immediately by Ethan Day. The ball comes out. Utah thinks
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: they have it. They're gonna say he's down on the play.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Both Jai Moe and Ethan Day were there. Short gain
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: of about a yard and a half for J.C. French.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: You just can't say enough about Jai Moe right here.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: It was a great job by him and Ethan Day
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: at sandwiching J.C. French right there. But Jai Moe, just
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: absolutely outstanding these past few weeks in that D-tackle position.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: So second down and goal at the 21-yard line now
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: for Cincinnati. French lined up with the shotgun again. Two
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: receivers left, one to the right-hand side. J.C. French backpedals
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: to pass, looking for a quick hitter.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: Down he goes!
• 47:36
  Speaker 9: Carson Kapusi came unblocked up the middle, and down goes French.
• 47:41
  Speaker 9: A big sack, the second of the year for Carson Kapusi.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: Man, and because we were calling Jai Mo's name on
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: that pass play, I was watching him. They do a
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: TT game, a nice twist game inside, but it's executed
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: to profession. Jai Mo comes in, and then Carson comes
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: right off of him, right into that opposite B gap
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: and right into the passing lane. Jason French had nowhere
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: to throw or run right there in the big arms
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: of Carson Kapusa.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Third and goal back at the 27-yard line. You just
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: can't let anybody behind you here if you're Utah. French
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: out of the shotgun, Utah to rush four. Plenty of time.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: French looking serving. Over the middle, he's got Cole Tabb.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: And Tabb's going to be tackled inside the 20 at
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: about the 17-yard line. That'll bring out the field goal
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: team here. And after giving up that 62-yard play and
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: a first and goal with the 8, that's a win
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: for the Utah defense.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. You get a false start and then another
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: holding penalty. That's minus 20 yards and then a big-time sack.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: So a loss of down on that one. That was
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: a great job of holding in the red zone by
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: this defense once again.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Rusnak will attempt a 35-yard field goal from just inside
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: the right hash. He's one for one today, made from
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: 47 earlier. Kick is up. It's away, and it is
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: no good. He missed it wide right. Rusnak misses for
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: the third time this year, and Cincinnati, after a big
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: play and a first and goal at the Utah 8,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: comes up with no points. Timeout on the field. 10.30
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: to play here in the first half. Utah 21. Cincinnati nothing,
• 49:14
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• 49:20
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• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Have 10 minutes and 30 seconds to play here in
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: the first half in cincinnati ohio utah 21 cincinnati three
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: bearcats missing 35 yard field goal utah gets it first
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: and 10 at their own 20 yard line devin dampier
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: so far today 10 of 11, 98 yards and a touchdown.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: He's also run four times for 26 yards. The intrepid
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: statsman Dave Spadafore tells me that 17 yards for Devin
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: Dampier and he becomes the all-time leading rusher at quarterback
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: for the University of Utah. He'll pass Travis Wilson. And
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: we'll get to those final numbers coming up here. But
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: 17 more yards for Devin Dampier.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Could come on this drive.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: That's crazy. It just shows you the work that he's
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: been able to put in in the last two years.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: But just his capabilities at the quarterback position is just
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: something that we haven't seen here at Utah. So Devin Dampier,
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: such a dynamic talent and what he's been able to
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: bring to this offense, to this football team.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Sean Parker has that touchdown run. He's got just three
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: carries for seven yards today. We'll see what they do
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: here on first and ten. He and Dempere lined up
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: at the shotgun. Two tights and two wides for Utah
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: from their own 20. Devon's going to run outside, play
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: action it, look down the field, nothing there. Now he's
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: going to cut back to the outside, back to the
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: inside and pick up about five yards. They'll mark him
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: down at four yards at the 24-yard line. He's just
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: a little bit quicker. He's up and out the sideline
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: the other way.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Well, that's a slow developing play, so he wants to
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: make sure that he gets all of what he's looking at.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: There's supposed to be a couple routes that come open late,
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: but that just doesn't happen. He makes a smart decision
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: of pulling down and getting positive yards there.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Bird Ficklin in, as is Dampier, as is Bray, as
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: is Parker. One of these crazy formations Kevin McGibbon likes
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: to line up in on second down and six. Going
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: to hand that ball, and now keeping Devin Dampier straight ahead, 30, 35,
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: and down at about the 36-yard line is where they
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: mark him. He is one yard shy of the all-time record.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: I was like, that looks close.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: He has tied Travis Wilson for the all-time rushing mark.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: One more yard, and Devin Dampier will stand alone, first
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: and 10 now at the 36 for Utah.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Wow, great run right there by Devin.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Took exactly what the defense gave him.
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Tight end, money comes in motion.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: Lovely.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: Daniel Bray, the tailback, they'll motion him out of the
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: backfield on first down and 10, now orbiting back in again.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: Pitching to the outside, Daniel Bray, he's got the 35,
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: he's got the 40, and down to about the 42-yard
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: line for a six-yard gain on first down goes Daniel Bray.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, great job, great play call right there, because once
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: the defense normally sees that initial motion, they make their checks,
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: he brings that orbit all the way back, the defense
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: has to recheck Again, but wow, Utah's already in motion.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: So that's just hard to calculate as a defense.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Six-yard gain, second down and four. Clock running at 8.50
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: to play here in the first half. 21-3 Utah. Semi
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: lined up on the left. Now they motion Devin Dampier out.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Wildcat play here for Wayshawn Parker who picks up. Give
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: him about two yards here to the 44-yard line. It's
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: been tough sledding so far except on that touchdown run
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: for Wayshawn Parker. Antoine Peek Jr. made the tackle. Third
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: down and two coming up.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta commend Cincinnati at coming downhill and stuffing
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: up that run right there. Now making a third down
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: and two for the use today.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Three for three on third down. Gotta get to the
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: 46 for a first down. Parker and dampier lined up
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: for the gun. Now way Sean motions out. Now Devin's
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: going to check with the sideline. Play Clock at 10.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Play Clock at 8. They may have to take a
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: time out here. Play Clock at four. Play Clock at three.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Dampier takes the snap and backpedals. Looking, firing to the outside.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Caught by Parker. Does he have first down yardage? He does.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: He needed two. He got two and a half. And
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: that's Ivory Holmes first down for Utah.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: Great job by Devin Dampier. Late in the play clock,
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: still taking what the defense gave him right there. You
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: would have thought, see me, if I was quarterback, I
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: was taking the slot.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Here they go with tempo. First and 10 for the 47.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: Devin backpedals to pass on first down. Nothing there initially.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: He's still looking. He's dancing in the pocket. Now he's
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: going to run. He's going to get to the outside,
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: directing traffic back to the inside. Now back to the
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: outside again. Ducks inside and picks up.
• 53:39
  Speaker 9: And dives forward to the Cincinnati 48-yard line. He picked
• 53:44
  Speaker 9: up five yards when there was.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: Absolutely nothing, and he is now the all-time leading quarterback
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: rusher in University of Utah football history.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: That's a long six yards right there. Great job by
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: Devin Dampierre. They need to uncover... The receiver's got to
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: uncover better on that play right there. But Devin Depp
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: here getting positive yards on that play.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Right there is terrific. 1,229 yards. Four yards better than
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Travis Wilson. Sets up a second down and four. Devin
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: in the pistol with Daniel Gray. Bird Ficklin comes in motion.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: It's a play-action roll. A lot of time looking down
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: the field. Dumps it down. Hunter Andrews, plenty of running room.
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: 40, 35 down.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: The Cincinnati 30-yard line. That'll be a pickup of 18
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: yards for Hunter Andrews, who's having a big day. Brian
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Sims III made the tackle. Another Utah first down.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: I love the implementation of Hunter Andrews the last few weeks, man.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: He's going to be a big part of this offense,
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: so absolutely love them getting him involved and early as
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: you head down to this hard part of our schedule.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Full house backfield for Utah and two receivers split wide
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: to the left. Parker motions out. Hand off Daniel Bray.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: Dives forward.
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: There he goes.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: 20, 15, 10, 5.
• 54:57
  Speaker 9: Daniel Bray untouched into the end zone.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: It's a Utah touchdown.
• 55:08
  Speaker 9: Daniel Bray shot right up the middle, 30 yards, and
• 55:12
  Speaker 9: into the end zone, and it's a Pepsi touchdown for Utah.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: Untouched. And that's what we interviewed him earlier this week.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: That's the type of play that he likes, right? Just
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: regular counter right up the middle. Oh, my gosh. What
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: a great play right there by Daniel Bray. One, he's
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: got elite speed, but when you don't touch him, good luck, defense.
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: Great job. Great blocking on that whole drive by that
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: offensive line.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: That scoring drive, eight plays, 80 yards, 428 off the
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: game clock, and the PAT up and good by Dylan Curtis.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: And with 6.02 to play here in the second quarter,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: it's Utah 28. and Cincinnati 3. We've got a timeout
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: on the field, our first half today, and that touchdown
• 55:56
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• 56:01
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• 56:05
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• 56:07
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• 56:12
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• 56:20
  Speaker 1: 6.02 to play in the first half. All Utah right now, 28-3.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: Daniel Bray just sprinted 30 yards untouched into the end zone.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: He looked like Zach Moss. That's what he looked like
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: on that play. What did you see from the young fella, Zach?
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: Explosive, explosive, explosive.
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: He found a small little crease.
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: He almost kind of felt like he kind of ducked down.
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: And then you just see him come out of nowhere
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: and show off the speed, man, to get into the
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: end zone. So, you know, we're finding ways to make
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: these plays still.
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: So happy to see.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: It, 28-3.
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: Doing some good things.
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: Zach, did he crease through one of those tight holes
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: we were talking about in the pregame? He definitely did.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: Yes, he did. 63 yards and a touchdown for Daniel
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: Bray as Dylan Curtis' kickoff goes through the end zone.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: And J.C. French and Cincinnati have had a couple of
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: bright moments, but really have made them be able to
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: pay off here.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: Down 28-3.
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know what happens if you come up empty
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: on this drive in your Cincinnati, because you're already down
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: in a hole, and this Utah defense is going to
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: start to tee off on you just a bit.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, and that's exactly what we want. We want
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: to be able to tee off. And right now, if
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: I was Colt Swan, I would be bringing the blitz.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Colt Tab, the tailback on first and ten. Three receivers
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: here for J.C. French. Ethan Day on the edge, showing
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: a little blitz look, and now they give it to
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: Colt Tab, who's into the open field, breaks a tackle, stays.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: On his feet.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: Boy, he is tough. He is great balance, this Colt Tab.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: The Stanford transfer, and he picks up nine after the
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: 34-yard line.
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he does.
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: He does have great contact balance right there. I was
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: hoping from the backside they could poke that ball out.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati going with some tempo here on first and ten.
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: French looking to throw down the field. He's got a
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: man open in a window, and the receiver holds on.
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: A big hit back there by Nate Ritchie. And Fenner
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: the wide receiver held on at the Utah 41 yard
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: line another huge chunk play by Cincinnati.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Nate Ritchie does a great job. This is
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: exactly what's supposed to happen. You're supposed to let that
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: guy go and let the free safety be able to
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: tee off on him. Nate Ritchie's got to hit him
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: a little bit more square to jar that ball out.
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: 25 yards on the pitch and catch all the way
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: to the Utah 25 after or 41 after two plays.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: Tab comes back in the backfield motion up front. They're
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: going to get Cincinnati again might be the right guard
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: this time. Maybe the right tackle, we'll see. Somebody on
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: the right side.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: Right guard, 66. False start.
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: Offense, number 66. Five-yard penalty. First down.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: Xavier Lazawicki called for that penalty. That'll be the fourth penalty.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: They've all been procedure penalties on Cincinnati so far. That'll
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: back them up five yards to the Utah 46, make
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: it first down and 15. Cincinnati's thrown for 142 yards already.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: Pistol formation on first and 15 with cold tab behind
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: JC French Utah shifting around up front with a four
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: down lineman look French is gonna turn and play action
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: pass look to the outside He's got a man open
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: out there again. That's the wide receiver Gibson That's a
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: missed tackle out there by Scooby Davis and he's in
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: and down to the Utah 21 yard line for a
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: gain of 20 and Ethan days down behind the play
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: here for Utah for an injured player Utah not uber
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: deep at that defensive end spot. Looks like Ethan Day's
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: holding maybe his right ankle, but that's another pitch and
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: catch of 25 yards. That's two 25-yard plays already on
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: this drive sly. Cincinnati's not known as a throwing team,
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: but J.C. French today 7 of 11 for 167 yards.
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's really just gas on the defense right there.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: Things you just can't have. That's a 10-yard stop right there.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: The defensive back, Scooby Davis, should be all over that
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: and knock that out and really contest that. And that
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: just didn't happen on that play right there. So we've
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: got to clean that up and be a little bit
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: more tight on the outside, especially in man coverage. If
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: you got that guy, lock him.
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  Speaker 4: Up right there.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. Yeah, Ethan Day, he's walking off right now
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: with a little bit of limp.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, left ankle it looks like, but walking off. Under
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: his own power, so that's good. Bearcats have it. First
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: and 10 at the Utah 21-yard line. The Utes lead
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: at 28-3, but the Bearcats have 214 yards of total
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: offense here in the first half.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and those are all just those big
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: chunk plays, right? It's not like they're just really catching them,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: but we're having gas on the defensive side of the
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: ball with combo coverage and communication. that we've had for
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: the past few weeks that we need to clean up.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: Coltab, the tailback, two receivers to the right, one to
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: the left-hand side, tight end of the left slot here
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: for Cincinnati on the edge of the red zone. Utah
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: having some communication issues right now on defense as J.C.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: French runs, and now he does a play action, throws
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: that ball away. He had Jackson Benny in his face.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: He just threw it away. He was trying to get
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: that wheel route out to Coltab. It goes incomplete, second down.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: It was a good misdirection by them, but I think
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: the pressure, this is why I say heat him up,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: Because the pressure doesn't let those plays develop.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: That type of play needs time to develop. And the
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: fact that we brought a blitz and he didn't think so.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: They didn't come on easy.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: They had to come real quick. Second down and 10
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: at the Utah 21 for the Bearcats. Pistol formation again.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: Henry comes in motion. Turn and a give and a
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: flanker screen to Malachi Henry. He's going to be dropped
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: behind the line of scrimmage. Excellent coverage on that play
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: by Elijah Ellis. Looked like Nate Ritchie might have been
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: there as well. Second down, now third down. That was
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: a loss of three on the play. Third down and 13.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Cash Dillon. Cash Dillon did a great job
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: of retracing the steps right there and helping out finish
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: that tackle.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: Three receivers right on third down and 13. You've got
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: to watch the back end of the backfield at all
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: times here for Cincinnati. J.C. French lines up his offense.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: Utah's going to rush four. Maybe they bring a late rusher. Nope,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: just a four-man rush for French. He dumps it over
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: to Coltab, and he is tripped up and taken down
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: after a short gain to about the 20-yard line. That's
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: going to be a gain of about four. That'll bring
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: up fourth down and nine. And the field goal team
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: comes out here for Cincinnati just trying to get some points.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they missed the field goal on the last one
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: right there. So, yeah, they are scrambling for answers here.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: In the first half, they have some success, catch Utah's
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: defense with some gaps, miscommunication, stuff that they still can't
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: capitalize on touchdown points.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: Rusnak missed his last field goal. This will be a
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: 39-yard attempt. The lefty from just inside the left hash.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: Four for seven on the season, one for two today.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: The kick is high, it's away, and it is good.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: He split the uprights that time, and Cincinnati gets three
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: out of it, but they're still down 28-6 here with 2.58
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: to play. in the first half. I think we're going
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: to keep it right here. No timeout, so we will
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: keep it right here. Utah's going to get the ball here, Sly,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: and they'll get the ball coming out of the locker
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: room as well. Cincinnati's run 27 plays. Eight of those
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: 27 plays have been chunk plays for 195 yards. The
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: other 19 plays.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Have gone for 20 yards. Stop the chunk plays, you'll
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: be fine. And Utah did right there and made them
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: settle for a field goal.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: That's a great stat because that's all I've seen. That's
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: a spat stat, by the way. That's a great spat stat.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: Isn't that a great spat stat?
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: That's a great spat stat. All I've seen is those
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: chunk plays. We eliminate those chunk plays, which is our
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: mental errors. They had that one big chunk play that
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: happened where Nate Richards got to hit him a little
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: bit more square to draw it out. But other than that,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: this defense has played great.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: Here's what I would say because Matt Robles would back
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: me up on this.
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  Speaker 2: 28-6.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: Alert onside. Alert onside. That's exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: All you had to say was Robles.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You knew it would be an onside kick or a
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: trick play of some kind, but if I'm Utah here,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: I'm very aware of the onside kick here. Rusnak's got
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: it teed up at his own 35. Daniel Bray back deep.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: He approaches. He's going to kick it high and deep.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: Bray's got a chance to return it, and he will
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: from the three. Oh, then he drops it. Daniel's going
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: to pick it up. Get to the outside, use his speed,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: and to the 10-yard line is it. Well, the first
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: real mistake we've seen today by the Utah Offensive Special Teams,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: Bray took his eye off it, bobbled it, dropped it,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: and only got out to the 10-yard line.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: Well, we can't go 90 yards if we don't start
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: on the 10.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: Well, it's true. You cannot have a 90-yard touchdown run.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: That's just basic math.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: Basic math.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: I was told there'd be no math.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: I thought Bray was kind of surprised that it was
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: inbounds right there, and he was eager to return that, right? Normally,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: his kicks are touchbacks, and so There, I think he
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: just got surprised, took his eyes off at the last second.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: This is Wayshawn Parker territory. He's already run one in
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: from 90 this year, and he had a 94-yarder called back.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: First and 10, Utah at their 10-yard line. 253 to
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: play here in the first half. Two tights, two wides,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: and Wayshawn Parker in the backfield with Devin Dampier. Hunter
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: Andrews comes in motion, sets himself back again. First down, handoff,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: Wayshawn Parker picking his way forward, straight.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 9: Ahead, look out, 35, 30, 45, 40, 50, 45, 40,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 9: down to the 30 and finally tackled at the Cincinnati
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 9: 27-yard line.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: Way Sean Parker. If you back Utah up, just give
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: it to number one. A huge play that flips the
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: field and first and ten for the Utes.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: What a job at making a guy miss in the
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: open field right there. If we had that cornerback blocked
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: out there, that would be another 90-yard touchdown. As we said,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: you can't go 90 yards if you don't start.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: On the tip. 64 yards on that play, and that
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: should take us, I believe, for the two-minute timeout. It will.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: Utah will be very content to let this one go
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: to the two-minute timeout. And Wayshawn Parker with another huge run,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: this time 64 yards. And Utah will have it first
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: and 10. This is the two-minute timeout. At the Cincinnati
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: 26-yard line when we get back. Two minutes to play
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: in the first half. Utah 28 and Cincinnati 6. And
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: this is Utah football from ESPN 700 and the Ute
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio Network.
• 1:06:14
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• 1:06:18
  Speaker 7: on ESPN 700 and the Ute Sports Network.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: Two minutes to play here in the first half in Cincinnati, Ohio.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: On the banks of the Ohio River, which is about
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: five miles down the road from where we sit here
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: in Mount Adams. Utah 28 and Cincinnati 6. Wayshawn Parker
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: just galloped 64 yards. And flipped the field. Utah was
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: at their own 10. Now they sit at the Cincinnati
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: 26-yard line. And a chance to add more points on
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: the board here, Sly, before we go to halftime.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, and you've got to do that, right? I
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: love it. I don't like the 28-6. I don't think
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: that's a comfortable enough lead for me, you know? But
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: you know what? I think this is great. The offense
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: has been rolling, and you just said an interesting thing.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: We have not heard a single thing from Ryan Phillips today.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: That is a very, very good thing if you're Utah.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: He has been on the field holding for the extra points.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: And I'll take that all day.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: But outside of that, Utah hasn't punted yet today.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: And if they play this right, they shouldn't have to
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: punt before halftime. Devin Dampier, 12 of 13 for 118
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown pass. Devin's also run seven times
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: for 48 yards. Parker, five carries, 73 yards. Bray, five carries,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: 63 yards. Hunter Andrews has four catches, 53 yards and
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: a touchdown. And a touchdown here might break this Cincinnati
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: football team.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: I think they're already broken. Daniel Bray touchdown, seeing the
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: effort by the safety or the second line or the
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: last line of defense shows that they're broken.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: Raising the ball game. They line up three receivers on
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: the right-hand side. Now Bird Ficklin, one of those receivers,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: comes back into the back feet. On first down, they
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: throw to the outside to Brayden Pagan. Pagan up the field,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: 25 and out of bounds. Really marking down and out
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: of bounds. They'll mark him out of bounds at the
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati 20-yard line. That'll be a gain of six on
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: first down and second down and four coming up as
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: Utah hits the Canyonview Credit Union red zone again. Third
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: time today.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: Great job. I love the tempo. Everything that they've done
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: in this game is really throwing Cincinnati off balance. Exactly
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: what you have to do in this game. Now hopefully
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: go down here and score right before halftime.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: Only downside to that play. Pagan stepped out of bounds.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: Full house backfield. And a rhino back in the right slot.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: Daniel Bray in the ballgame. So is Wayshawn Parker. He
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: comes up to the left side of Devin Dampier. Devin
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: gives it to Wayshawn Parker. Straight ahead to the Cincinnati 15.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: And a Ivory Holmes first down for Utah. They'll move
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: the chains. And the clock will continue to run here
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: as we head toward halftime. First and 10 Utah at
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: the Bearcat 15.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, great job. Just keep moving forward. As you said,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: you want to take up as much time before the half.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: You only got 15 yards to go for a touchdown.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: You can actually get another first down here. with five
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: more or ten more yards here. Take up as much
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: time as you can.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: Parker in the back of the backfield. Devin lines up
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: in the shotgun. Now he motions Wayshon out. Devin throws
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: the flanker screen outside. Wayshon Parker. He's got the 15.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: He's got the 10. Run out of bounds at the
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati 8-yard line. Extracurricular there. Wayshon took exception to it.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: That's okay. He picks up seven yards, and the clock
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: continues to move here. Or does it? Nope, they forced
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: him out of bounds. They did not say his progress
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: had been stopped, so it goes out of bounds. With
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: a minute 28 to play and second down and three
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: coming up.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: Well, I personally like any play to get Wayshon going.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: I do too.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: You want to piss Wayshon off, by all means, go ahead.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: I want to see that guy get a whole bunch
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: of yards today.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: Three receptions, 17 yards now for Wayshon. He and Dampier
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: in the backfield. Big Sione in the right slot. Now
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: they motion Devin out. Weishan's going to follow his blocking
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: straight ahead to the 5, to the 4, to the
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: 3-yard line. Pyle still pushing. Oh, they're going to stop
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: his forward progress at the 3-yard line. I don't think
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: it was stopped. But Utah will get a first and goal.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: I thought that pile was still moving, Sly.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: It's hard because you want them to stop forward progress
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: and make sure nobody gets injured. But at the same
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: time here, we love rugby piles, right? This is a
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: rugby pile right here. Everybody's jumping. He goes all the
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: way into the end zone. But the ref did blow
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: the whistle, which means the play's dead.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: Clock running. First and goal, Utah at the Cincinnati 3.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: A minute 10 to play before halftime. Rhino back shift
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: to the right-hand side. Wayshawn Parker, Devin Dampier in the backfield.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: Here comes a man in motion, popped past Daniel Bray,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: going to try to get to.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: The edge, and he does.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: He'll walk in untouched at the pylon for a Utah touchdown.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: Second TD today for Daniel Bray, and the route is
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: on here in the Queen City. It's a touchdown for Utah.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: I feel a little better now. This is a little
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: bit more comfortable, a little more my speed right now
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: as far as the lead is concerned because we get
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: the ball at half. This has been absolutely terrific. Great execution,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: great blocking on the outside to allow Bray to get
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: around the edge right there, use his speed, and in
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: for his second rushing touchdown today.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: No, that's a passing touchdown. That was a pop pass.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, because it's quick?
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: So Devin Dampier gets a touchdown pass, and Daniel Bray
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: gets a touchdown receiving. PAT by Dylan Curtis is up,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: and it's good. That touchdown, a Pepsi touchdown, the first
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: receiving touchdown of the year for Daniel Bray, and his
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: second touchdown of the day. And that makes it 35-6
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: Utah with 58 seconds to play here in the first half.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: Man, and it's a good thing. See, I was asking
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: Daniel Bray earlier this week, what's a perfect game for you?
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: And I was trying to get him to say a
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: receiving touchdown, a rushing touchdown. And look, now he's got
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: it here just in the first half today. Daniel Bray's
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: playing awesome. Aside from muffing the kickoff return, which he
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: had time to recover it, they go 90 yards down
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: the field. This offense is rolling on all cylinders, and
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: I absolutely love it.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: Well, the fans, the student section has absolutely emptied here.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: It's time to go celebrate Halloween here for the students
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 5: Oh, my gosh.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: I didn't even notice how much.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: They're gone.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: They dipped.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're gone.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: They're not chilling on the concourse. They are leaving the stadium.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: But this is what we tell you. Take this crowd
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: out of it early.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure this crowd was ever in it. Utah
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: never gave him a chance scoring on their opening drive today.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: Dylan Curtis has it teed up at his own 35.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: He'll kick it. Here's Island Perry. He's back deep. High
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: and end over end goes the kick, and Perry's going
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: to let it drift through. And another touchback. Going to
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: hear from Zach Moss and Morgan Scali here in about
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: 58 seconds as we go to the locker room. There's
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: not going to be much Morgan Scali's not happy about.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: Maybe some of those chunk plays they've given up, but
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: the good news is Those chunk plays for Cincinnati have
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: only yielded six points.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: Six points. Six points. And the red zone defense, Morgan Scali,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: has to be proud of. That is a huge, huge
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: statistic as a team is how well you do when
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: your opponent is in the red zone.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati has all three timeouts. I would expect they're aggressive
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: here with 58 seconds and first and ten from their
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: own 25-yard line. J.C. French backpedals to pass. Utah showing pressure.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: Fires over the middle. It's caught and dropped. Incomplete defense.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: Sliding that to his tight end, Smith, who had a
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: nice grab earlier, couldn't hold on there. It goes incomplete.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: Second down and 10 coming up.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: Great job by Trey Reynolds right there at tackling the catch.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: You aggressively tackle the catch. You have the opportunity of
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: knocking the ball out, creating an incomplete pass, which is
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: what happened right there.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: Second down and 10, Bearcats from their own 25-yard line,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: 53 seconds to play. A four-wide receiver look this time
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: for the Bearcats. Utah showing pressure here. They come right
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: up the middle. French throwing to the outside.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 4: Caught.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: Nice grab by J.B. Gibson. At about the 35-yard line,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: that'll be first down yardage. He went up to get it,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: and Cyrus Polu was out there on the coverage, but
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: Utah will give that one with 45 seconds to play
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: in the half.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: Tackle them inbounds, keep that clock rolling right here. They're
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: resetting the chains, and they'll roll that clock.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: Clock rolls 44-43. First and ten Bearcats at their own 35.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: Utah rushing four this time. Out to the outside.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: That's a pick, and that's going to go to the house!
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 9: Cyrus Polu for a 23rd consecutive year.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: It's Elijah Davis with the pick six. Scooby Davis extends.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 9: The streak to 23 straight.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: Years, and it's a Utah touchdown. It's a house call
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: for the Utes.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: I'm like, come on, jump it. You know what they're doing.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: And that's exactly what we wanted to happen. Game plan achieved.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: 42 points here in the first half. Absolutely terrific. Great
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: read right there by Elijah Davis. Understanding that that's all
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: they're trying to do. Stop route, stop route. Zach's texting us.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: The stop routes are killing us. They finally wake up,
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: jump the stop route into the end zone. We go
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: pick six.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: The longest streak in Division I college football history continues.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: 23 straight years. The Utes have returned an interception for
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: a touchdown. And they now lead Cincinnati. 42-6 with 34
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: seconds to play here in the first half.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. I love it. As a defensive guy,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: two defensive touchdowns in the first half is absolutely, look
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: at me, you look like Richard Nixon. Absolutely terrific job
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: by this defense, staying on their keys, understanding exactly what
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: Cincinnati's trying to do, getting the crowd out of it
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: early and often in this game. Utah is for real.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: They are rolling on all cylinders. They look great today.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: What a play by Utah. And those stop routes were
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: killing Utah early. Utah jumped that one. And Scooby Davis
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: takes it back. 39 yards. And the streak remains alive
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: for yet another year. 23 consecutive years. The Utes have
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: returned an interception for a touchdown. And they are absolutely
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: blasting the Bearcats here. 42 first half points for Utah.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: It's awesome. Taking advantage of opportunities is exactly what they're doing,
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: and they look great doing it.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: Zylen Perry's going to return this one for the goal line.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: Perry straight ahead. Out he goes to the 15 and
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: dropped right there. They'll give him the 16-yard line. And
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: now there's some extracurricular stuff. going on downstairs between the
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: Bearcats and the Utes, and that's bound to happen when
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: you're getting beat 42-6. That was normally me.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: I'm normally in those scrums right there. But, yeah, that
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: definitely happens. There's a lot of frustration happening on Cincinnati's side,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: and it's not like Utah's trying to pour on points,
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: pour on points, but they are taking exactly what's given
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: to them, and right now Cincinnati is giving them everything
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: from points on their offensive side. They're giving our offense
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: all the points in the world. We just yet to
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: have points on special teams this far.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: First and ten Bearcats from their own 15 with 29
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: seconds until halftime. They're going to pass again. Here comes
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: the pressure again.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 4: J.C.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: French is going down. He is sacked by Elijah Reed.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: A corner blitz drops him all the way back at
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: the seven-yard line, and Utah's going to take a timeout
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: here with 19 seconds to play before halftime. Morgan Scali says,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: give me a little bit more. Give me a little
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: bit more.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: Timeout. Utah, their first of the half.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 5: It will be 30 seconds.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 8: Please set the game clock to 21 seconds.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: For those in the national media that were worried about
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: a hangover after the Houston game, message sent here in
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: the first half, 42-6. So much for the post-Houston hangover, Sly.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, this says a lot of things from
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: what Cincinnati did to Texas Tech just a week ago
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: in this building on this field right here. That's going
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: to send everything in for CFP poll coming out on Tuesday.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: This puts us right in position. I wouldn't be surprised
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: if we are top four, top five in that CFP
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: poll coming out. Utah does exactly what they need to do.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: They look unstoppable today. And again, it was more of
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: a hangover from Cincinnati than anything. But looking on film,
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: they exerted so much energy into the Texas Tech game
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: last week. Even talking to some of the people in
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: the building as we were coming up here, that meant
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: everything to them last week. So I'm just like, you
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: guys got enough for today? And it looks like they
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: do not. Great job by Utah at capitalizing on the
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: moment right now and take advantage. I wouldn't even say
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: I'm a wounded duck. I just think they're a little
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: distracted today.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: From last week. 21 seconds to go until halftime. Utah's
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: used its first of three timeouts. Cincinnati facing a second
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: eight and 18 at their own seven. I would bet
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: they run the football right here, but we'll see what
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: Scott Satterfield decides to do. cold tab the tailback in
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: the backfield they're gonna hand it off to cold tab
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: cold tab picks his way forward beyond the 10 to
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: about the 14 yard line Utah takes another timeout with
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: 16 seconds to play apparently 42 not enough for Morgan.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 8: Timeout Utah They're second of the half.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 5: It will be 30 seconds.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: And here's right now, it's not so much I want
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: to beat down Cincinnati. I am practicing right now going
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: into the third quarter. I want to be extremely efficient
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: at the end of the second quarter and at the
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: beginning of the third quarter. I want to make this
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: a normal progression for my team to understand. I take
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: advantage of the time at the end of the first
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: half and then we execute and be extremely aggressive at
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: the beginning of the third quarter. That's going to be
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: normal progression when we go against BYU, when we go
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: against Arizona, TCU, or West Virginia.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: But given this note from our guy Dave Spadafore, most
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: points and a half on the road since 2022, 42
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: at Colorado.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: That was the year before Dion at Colorado. So third
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: down and 11 from the 14-yard line here. 16 seconds
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: to play. And Utah with one timeout. French lines up
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: in the shotgun with four wide receivers. Going to hand
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: that ball to Tab. Cole Tab's got running room. He's
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: out across the 35. Cole Tab's got the 40. Cole
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: Tab's got the 44, 45-yard line. Actually, it was Payne,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: the tailback, not Tab. Jerron Payne, and that should probably
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: take us. No, Cincinnati's going to take a timeout. Scott
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: Satterfield said, okay, I'll take a timeout now.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 5: Timeout, Cincinnati, the first of the half.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 4: It will be 32nd.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: And that's what's unfortunate for them. They want to get points,
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: but they only have seven seconds to either get in
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: field goal range. They got two timeouts. Oh, they got
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: two more timeouts. But what is the field goal range
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: of their kicker, Rusnik? I don't know. What is his
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: longest field goal? He seems to have a really good leg.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: I just felt a little bit of wind come up
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: a little bit. He's already got one missed field goal
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: here in the first half. What's field goal range for him?
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: About 54. His career long is 54 yards.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: And he made from 54 earlier this year. So you're
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: going to have to pick up another 10 yards or so.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: 10, 12 yards to make this.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: And have to do it quickly because you've only got
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: seven seconds.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: They've got to make actually 17, 18 yards.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: First and 10 from their own 44-yard line for the Bearcats.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: Seven seconds to play with four wide receivers. See if
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: they try to get one more play at a timeout
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: or a Hail Mary right here with J.C. French. Play
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: action pass for French. Pressure coming. He's going to step
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: up away from it and look to throw it down
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: the field. And there'll be one second remaining before halftime
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: as he throws it away.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: That's a home clock play right there.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: Tried to get that ball to JV Gibson. So the
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: last time Utah scored this many points on the road
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: in the first half was against Colorado in 22. The
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: last time they scored this many points in a half
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: was 43 a year ago against Colorado at home. Remember,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: they got 43 in the first half and just 10
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: in the second half. They beat them 53-7. Final play
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: of the half here for J.C. French and the Bearcats.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: The old Hail Mary clock play here. They're just going
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: to dump it off over the middle, and that's going
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: to be running room. Straight ahead for Malachi Henry. Goodness gracious,
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: he's got plenty of running room all the way to
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: the Utah 22-yard line. And that will take us to
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: halftime here at Nippert Stadium. Well, Cincinnati's got a ton
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: of yards. But not many points to show for it here.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: 42-6 is the score here at the half. We're going
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: to go downstairs to Zach. Zach, as he's got Morgan Scali.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Zach. Oh, he's trying to find Morgan Scali.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 3: As these guys are having a nice little battle between
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 3: the fields there.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: There you go. Go ahead, Zach.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 4: Coach, absolute, complete showing in the first half. What's working
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 4: so well for the guys?
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: Well, the takeaways on the defensive side of the ball,
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: it really is the tail there. You know, a couple
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: of chunky yardage plays, but we're stout again in the
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: red zone. So a really good job there. On the
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: offensive side of the ball, just efficiency.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 4: Efficiency, efficiency.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: Running the ball, throwing the ball. Devin's doing a great
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: job of leading those guys.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 3: Commanding league coming into the second half. What's the message
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 3: to keep the intensity up?
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 4: Score 0-0.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Coach.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Morgan. Thank you, Zach. It's halftime here in Cincinnati,
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: and it is a Utah domination on the scoreboard. Stat
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: sheet's close. We'll tell you those stats when we come
• 1:23:32
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• 1:23:35
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• 1:23:39
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• 1:23:56
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• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: It's all Utah. 42-6, Utah scored on all four of
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: their offensive drives, and they had two defensive scores, a
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: scoop and a score by Rabbit Evans and a pick
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: six by Scooby Davis, his second career pick six, by
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: the way. And Utah is in front here big time. Actually,
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: it's Scooby's third career pick six. He had two last year,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: one against Kansas, one against Baylor, and now he has
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: one today against Cincinnati. So three career pick sixes for
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: Scooby Davis. And Utah firmly in control. They'll get the
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: ball to start the second half.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 2: I forgot about that Baylor one. Yeah, Scooby Davis is
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: absolutely terrific. I think he's getting it. He moves extremely
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: well from the cornerback position. All the corners that we
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: have that's under Shreve Shaw, his tutelage has been absolutely awesome, right?
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: And Scooby's just the next great Utah corner player. But
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: this has been an outstanding performance by both the offense
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: and the defense. Everybody's firing on all cylinders, exactly.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 4: What you expect.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: This is the game that you need to have and
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: the performance that you need to have heading into next week. Now, again,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: we talked about momentum. We found something in the second
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: half of that Houston game, right? This is momentum that's
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: going to propel us into next week. Next week, we
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: have to finish strong in this game. You can't just
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: take it easy. Oh, we have the lead. It's whatever.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: You've got to finish strong because even if you win
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: this game, how you finish this game is how you're
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: going to start the next one.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: And if you missed it, Devin Dampier passed the great
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: Travis Wilson for first on the all-time quarterback rushing list.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: Travis had 1,225 yards. Devin now 1,231 yards. And he
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: was one incomplete pass away from being perfect in the
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: first half. 15 of 16 for 135 yards.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Devin was cooking with gas in that first half.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: It was absolutely terrific to see him operate the offense.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: I just loved him. This is what I love. So
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: Morgan Scali is a great defensive coordinator. He is. I
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: love to see his impression or his imprint on the
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: offensive side of the ball. What gives you fits as
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: a defensive coordinator? You're seeing that right now. But see,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: me too. As a defender, what did I hate guarding
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: the most? I hated guarding up temple because it affects
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: our communication. Our defensive side of the ball, we're not
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: on the same page. This offense puts defenses in a
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: complex every single time they're on the football field.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: Very much nitpicking in a 42-6 game, but Utah's given
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: up a lot of yardage in this first half, and
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of coverages that were missed and things, a
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: lot of chunk plays. Would you like to see them
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: cut down on those? How do you cut down on
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: some of those miscommunications?
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's just it right there. Not so much
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: the yardage that's bothering me. It is the issues that's
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: causing the yardage that's the problem for me. It's miscommunication.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: We've seen it for the last four or five weeks
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: with this defense. What is going on to where we're
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: not getting lined up on time? We're not communicating what's
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: needed to play. On that one big chunk play that
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: was 62 yards, it looked like Jax Binney was playing
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: cover three, but the corner was playing cover one, right?
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: And they end up in the same location, and there's
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: a guy in the third. And so that is the
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: bigger issue for me, and that's something that can be
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: cleaned up. I just don't know why it hasn't been
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: cleaned up this far.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: Utah will have the ball to begin things here in
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: the second half. Steven Rusnak has it teed up at
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: his own 35-yard line. Daniel Bray, who's had a nice
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: first half, both receiving and running the football for Utah,
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: back deep to receive this kick from Rusnak. It's a
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: line drive kick away from Bray. It's actually taken by Simmons.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: Larry Simmons will take it up across the 15 to
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: about the 18, 20, 21, 22-yard line goes Simmons. Got
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: a little help from his friends on that play. A
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: little surprised that Larry decided to bring that thing out,
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: but he did. And Utah will begin with a 78-yard field,
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: first and 10 at their own 22-yard line.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: That's what's crazy about sometimes is that when you don't
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: get touches elsewhere, you try to get touches wherever you can, right?
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: And that's the problem with this offense. We have so
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: many weapons, right? You said touchdown Larry and how important
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: he was to the end of the season last year.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: He doesn't get that many touches or targets on the
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: offensive side of the ball, but he does get one here.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: on special teams, so he tries to take advantage.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: Bird Ficklin in the backfield now. along with Hunter Andrews.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: Devin Dampier in the shotgun, handoff, first straight ahead, Hunter
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: Andrews takes it to the 23-yard line, picks up about
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: a yard on first down. Of course, Hunter began his
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: career as a running back. He was an all-district running
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: back in Texas, came to Utah as a linebacker. They
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: moved him back to running back, and now he's kind
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: of an H-back, kind of a weapon, Swiss Army knife
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: for Utah.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: And I tell you, if you guys haven't seen his
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: high school highlight tape, go watch it. Absolutely terrific. I
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: was so excited. to get this guy on this Utah roster.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: Second down and nine. Bray in the backfield now for Utah.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: Two tights and two wides for the Utes from their
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: own 23-yard line. Money comes in motion. Utah looking down
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: the field. Devon scrambling. still looking, firing. Ball batted down
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 4: Incomplete.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: That's going to bring up third down and nine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Devin was just late on that. Ricky Johnson was
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: open for a while, and he just didn't see him.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: I think he went to Ricky Johnson at first, then
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: went back out to Money, then went back to Ricky Johnson,
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 2: but it was just too late. The defensive line was
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 2: able to put their hands in the passing lane right
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: there and knock that down.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: So third down and nine. Utah hasn't been in this
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: situation much today. They're three for three, making four for
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: four on third down. They'll let the out the backfield.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: On third down and nine, Cincinnati's going to rush four.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: Now they bring Andrews in motion. Devin backpedals. Lots of time.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: Down the field complete. He's got Ricky Johnson beyond the 35.
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  Speaker 1: And out to about the 38-yard line. That'll be a
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: first down for Utah.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: That's the exact same, not the exact same play, but
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: the same route combination on the left side where he
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: had Ricky the last play. He hits him this time.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: Picks up the first down.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: First down and 10 on the Ivory Homes first down
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: for Utah. Out at about the 38-yard line. Two tight
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: ends in the right slot. Daniel Bray the tailback here
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: for Utah. First down, straight ahead handoff. Daniel burrows his head,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: keeps those legs pumping beyond the 40. And out to
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: the 42-yard line. A four-yard gain for Daniel Bray. 0-2-2.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: The defensive tackle made the tackle for Cincinnati. Second down
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: and six coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, great job. I mean, Daniel Bray's got 67, 68
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: yards on the ground in this football game. He's doing
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: a great job about 40 yards in the passing game
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: as well. He's over 100 yards, 20 yards from scrimmage.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: Daniel Bray's being a huge factor in this offense today.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: Patrick Bauer has to come out of the ballgame for Cincinnati.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: Might have taken a shot to the head. Full house
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: backfield here on first down, make it second down in
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: about five. Devin, Daniel Bray, and Bray will take the
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: handoff off that right side. Daniel sprinting across the 45
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: and out to about the 47 for a four-yard gain.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: It'll bring up third down and one. Cincinnati strings it
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: out pretty well, but Daniel Bray running hard here today
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: for Utah, now over 70 yards. 71 yards, in fact,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: for Daniel Bray on eight carries.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, great job in execution now, bringing third down to manageable, right?
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: You could do a lot of different things here. Again,
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 2: this is a very aggressive defense. Watch them barrel down
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: onto these run fakes right here. Open up the RPO game.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: Even if you want to do a play action, you're
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: going to get one-on-one deep.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: Third down and one for Utah. Movement all over the place.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: They throw it outside to Braden Pegg, and he gets up,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: and that's first down yardage beyond the 50 into Cincinnati territory.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: It looked like there was a little movement on the
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: right side of the Utah offensive line, but no flags.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 2: Hey, man, I'll take it. First down, move the sticks.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: Another Ivory Holmes first down for Utah. They're into Cincinnati
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: territory at the Bearcat 49, and much like their four
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: offensive drives in the first half, this one's been smooth
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: so far.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, eat up that clock, man, and run the plays easy.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: As I said, what you do in this second half
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: is going to propel you into the next week.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: Steven Chavez Soto in the ballgame for the first time
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: here for Utah. Haven't seen Wayshawn Parker here in the
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: second half. In cut to Kyrie Scholes. Ball nearly intercepted
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: on the deflection.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: Incomplete.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: Off the fingertips of Scholes. Kyrie's only got one catch
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, and that one, I don't know if that.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: Was too out of his reach, but he touched his hands. Yeah,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: that one was kind of out of his reach right there.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: Devin's got to put that a little bit further into
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: his grasp right there so he can come away with it.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: Second down and 10, Utah from the Cincinnati 49-yard line.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: Utah lines up with Talonga and Chavez Soto in the backfield.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: Devin Dampier stays in it, quarterback. Bird Ficklin comes into
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: the backfield now, and again, hand that ball to Chavez Soto. Nope,
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: Devin keeps it himself. He's going to be dropped for
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: a loss back to the 45-yard line. It's going to
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: bring up third down and long here. A lot of
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: misdirection on that play. I followed Chavez Soto. Devin kept
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: it himself, and that'll bring up third down and long.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: That was a good job by the defense right there
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: at coming away with the stop right there because if
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: Devin gets by him, then that's just one-on-one or two-on-one
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: with Bird and Devin on one defender out there in
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: the free, and that could have been dangerous for Cincinnati.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: So third down and 15, the longest third down of
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: the day. Utah's trying to convert. They're six for six
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: on third down. Cincinnati with a four-man down front. Back
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: in the backfield, Chavez Soto. Devin drops to pass with
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: a four-man rush. Looking, throwing down the field, looking for Pagan.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: He was held out there, no flag. I mean, he
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: was held up and no flags come out. That'll bring
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: out the punt team for the first time today.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a miscommunication right there. I think Pagan
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: was reading the defense, saw a little over-the-top safety, so
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: he kind of stopped running. But Devin anticipated he was
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 2: looking off the safety and was going to come back
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: to Pagan no matter what.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 5: So for the.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: First time, Orion Phillips comes out to punt here. And
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: Henry back deep to receive this punt. Fourth down and
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: 15 for Utah for their own 45-yard line. Bearcats going
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: to come after it. Ryan Phillips going to get that
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: kick away. It's a high and end-over-end kick. Malachi Henry's
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: going to signal for a fair catch and take it
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: at his own 11-yard line. And that's where the Bearcats
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: will begin first and 10. When we get back, well,
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: it took a half and a drive, but the Utah
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: offense finally stopped today. 42-6 with 10.59 to play here
• 1:33:54
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  Speaker 1: booth here in Cincinnati. A lot of treats, very few
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: tricks today for Utah. They lead 42-6 here early in
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: the third quarter over the Cincinnati Bearcats. Cincinnati will begin
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: first and ten at their own 11-yard line. Utah's offense
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: stopped for the first time all day on that last drive.
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: We'll see what the defense can do right here. They
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: lead 42-6. Yeah, the defense.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: Has got to stay up, right? You don't want to
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: give up too many things. Even though you win this game,
• 1:34:50
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• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: next weekend. You have to finish strong. That means being
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  Speaker 2: lightning focused. Whether you're the first team or second team
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: in there, being lightning focused. Don't take any momentum from
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: this game. The only thing you want to take is
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 2: positive momentum, but you don't want to take any negative momentum,
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: so finish strong.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: Pistol formation on first and 10 for the Bearcats, trailing
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: 42-6 from their own 11-yard line. Cole tabbed the tailback.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: He'll pick his way forward. The slippery little running back
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: can transfer from Stanford. Picks up about 2.5, maybe 3
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: yards to the 14-yard line. Tackled on the play by
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: Trey Reynolds. Second down and seven coming up here for
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: the Bearcats.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 4: French.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: Play action pass this time. Plenty of time. Now he's
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: going to scramble to the outside. Looking down the field.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: Throwing down the field. Great catch by the tight end.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: Out at about the 19-yard line, Gavin Grover comes up
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: with that catch. And a good job by French to
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: elude the rushers. And pick up close to first down yardage.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: It'll be about third down and two here.
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's another TT game right there by Jai Mo
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 2: and Carson Cafuzzi. Carson Cafuzzi almost got another sack on
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: that play right there.
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: Got one already today. Third down and two for the Bearcats.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: They're three out of seven on third down today. Four
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: receivers in the pattern.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 4: J.C.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: French. Looking, throwing, caught, complete, fumble, incomplete. Rover had it.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: And then he fumbled it. They're going to send the
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: punt team out here for their own 19-yard line.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: They are.
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: They're not going to take any chances here. It's 42-6,
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: but you don't want to give Utah field position if
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: you can't convert. So Max Fletcher, the punter, will come
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: out here for the Bearcats.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: Well, great job by Elijah Davis right there, coming off
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 2: his guy to make that happen. Trey Reynolds and Jonah
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: Hall were checking the play at the last second with
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: that slot receiver coming open. Elijah Davis saw it and
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 2: made a great play in the incomplete pass.
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: Fletcher standing at his own three. Monte Carvalho at his
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: own 35-yard line. Rugby-style punt is almost faked, and now
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: a line drive kick. Carvalho's going to come up and
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: take it and then fall on it at about the
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: 42-43 yard line. That ball died on him at the
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: very end, and we've got a timeout on the field. Fletcher,
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: I thought for a minute, was going to run that.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: He decided to rugby line drive it. Utah will have
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: great starting field position when we get back here to Cincinnati. 9.49
• 1:37:10
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  Speaker 1: Well, this stadium wasn't full when the game began today,
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: but it was close. It's nowhere near it now. Everybody
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: left at half. I got a lot of Utah fans
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: here in red, though, smattered along the along the Utah
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: side of the field over there as the Utes lead
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: 42 to six here with 949 to play here in
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: the first in the third quarter.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 2: Halloween holiday. They do need a reason to get out
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: of here. They left out of here pretty quick. I
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: would say you're right at the end of the first quarter,
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 2: right through the second quarter.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 4: They were gone.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: Wayshawn Parker's day is done. Seven carries, 82 yards for Wayshawn.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: Three catches, 17. They're going to keep him nice and
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: fresh and on ice until next week's game against BYU.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: See a lot of Chavez Soto, Daniel Bray, and some
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: others here in the second half. First and ten, Utah.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: They operate from their own 43-yard line. First and ten,
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: Chavez Soto running straight ahead, keeping those legs pumping. Picks
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: up about two to the 44-yard line. Boy, if he
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: just bounces off that just a little bit, he's got
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: a little bit more yardage to the outside.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, see seeing that window right there. Hopefully we could
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 2: see the freshman Lamarcus Bells.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, he's great.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 2: That's some guy that we want to see get.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: Some plays at 87 yards early this year against Idaho.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: Devin staying in the ball game though here on second
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: down and eight for the 44 yard line brings Ricky
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: Johnson in motion. Cincinnati rushing for play action roll to
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: the right for Devin Dampier throwing outside and incomplete as
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: he tried to get that ball to Ricky Johnson. Fifth
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: incomplete pass today for Devin. And that'll bring up third
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: down and eight.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Ricky's got to work outside. For me, this is
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 2: a receiver working outside. He just stops, and it just
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: doesn't work outside. He works outside, which is Devin expecting
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 2: right there. That would be a good catch.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it would. That would have been first down in
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: the yardage for Utah instead. Third down and about eight now.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: Utah missed on its first third down of the afternoon
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: last time around. They're six of seven here. Emotion Chavez
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: Soto out of the backfield. Throw that running back screen
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: to him. Chavez Soto up the sideline. He'll have first
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: down yardage into Cincinnati territory.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they're going to mark him out of bounds.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: They said he stepped out of bounds at the 49-yard line.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: He reached the ball, though. So he's going to be very,
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: very close. Do they wave it? Nope. It's going to
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: be half a yard to go, and Utah's going to
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: keep the offense out there. Four and about half a yard.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: He reached the ball out and got that first down.
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 2: That's an unfortunate spot because the ref that's behind the
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 2: plate called the spot.
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: So fourth and a half a yard here for Utah.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: Fourth down opportunity of the day for the Utes. Chavez
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: Soto stays in the ballgame. Semi-Tau Longa. In the right slot,
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: Chavez Soto picks his way forward. He'll have, does he
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: have it? I don't think he does.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 2: What is he doing?
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: I don't think he does. He tried to bounce it outside.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: I think Cincinnati got the stop on fourth down here.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, I hope Atawai rips him a new one. Stay inside.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 4: What are you doing?
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: I think Cincinnati got the stop here. I think they're
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: going to measure for this, but I think Cincinnati may
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: have gotten the stop. He only needed inches to go
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: for the first down. Stay inside. Yep, they're going to
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: measure for this.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: Lessons learned for a young running back. Utah's indeed not
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: be that close.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 2: But yeah, again, that's just that's the differences in running backs.
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 2: You can run the same play. But is the vision
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 2: the same, right? Are they seeing the same holes or
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 2: understanding the situation?
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: Here we go. The chains are coming out to measure
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: right here. It's going to be close. He only needed
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: about six inches to get there. I'm going to stretch
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: these chains out. We'll see what we get. And he's
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: going to be short. He's going to be sure he
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: may have lost a little bit of yardage on that play.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: So Cincinnati's defense with back-to-back stops here in the second half.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: And that's just one of those ones where, you're right,
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: Mark Ottowai is probably going to have a nice conversation,
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: the running back's coach, with Steven Chavez-Soto after that play.
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 2: Nice is a nice way of putting it. But, yes,
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 2: I just know that running back coaches hate when running
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 2: backs do that.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: Pistol formation for the Bearcats. They started their own 49
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: yard line. Tailback, Jabron Payne. Hand off Payne. He picks
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: the left side and picks up about three for the
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: Utah 48 yard line on first down. Jabron Payne had
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: the fumble that was scooped up and run back by
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: Rabbit Evans early in the ballgame. Clock running at 8.05
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: to play here in the third quarter. 42-6 Utah. Now
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati's going to go with some tempo on second down
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: and seven. French. Gives it again to Payne, trying the outside.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: He won't get there this time. He is wrapped up
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: and taken down. I think Jai Mo may have been
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: one of the first guys there.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 2: Paul Fitzgerald.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: Paul Fitzgerald was there as well.
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: Fitzgerald does a great job holding the edge right there,
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: making him go right outside.
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: 2E was also there.
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 2: It's great flow by the defense. I love the way
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 2: they're flowing on those plays. You stick them up in
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 2: the middle, make them go east and west, and then
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 2: you float it and play. Great job right there by
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 2: the defense.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: Third down and seven here for the Bearcats. From the
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: Utah 48 yard line. They bring a wide receiver in motion.
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  Speaker 1: That's Henrik. Now French is going to pass. Looking over
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  Speaker 1: the middle. Pressure in his face. Dumps it off to
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  Speaker 1: his wide receiver who dropped it. Oh goodness. JV Gibson
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  Speaker 1: would have had first down yardage. But he dropped the pass.
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  Speaker 1: And that will bring up fourth down. And I think
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati is going to go for it right here from midfield.
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  Speaker 1: He was going to try and punch that thing out.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't know the receiver dropped it, but he was
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  Speaker 2: punching that ball like crazy, which is exactly what you
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  Speaker 2: want to do.
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  Speaker 1: First fourth down opportunity for the Bearcats today. They've got
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  Speaker 1: to get to the Utah 41, fourth down and seven.
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  Speaker 2: Watch the backside screen here.
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  Speaker 1: Utah's going to rush just four and bring Fitzgerald off
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  Speaker 1: the edge. French surveying the defense. Reynolds moving around. Wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver in motion. Here they come.
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  Speaker 5: He's down.
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  Speaker 1: It's a sack for the Utah defense. Elijah Ellis came
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  Speaker 1: blitzing off the edge, and down goes JC French. Third
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  Speaker 1: sack today for the Utah defense.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, those Ellis boys know how to rush the passer,
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  Speaker 2: don't they?
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  Speaker 1: They know how to get up field and get up
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  Speaker 1: field fast. Elijah Ellis off the edge with a fourth
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  Speaker 1: down sack in Utah's offense. We'll get it right back
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  Speaker 1: when we get back. Timeout on the field. A timeout
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter in a scoreless third quarter here in Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: It's Utah 42 and the Bearcats 6. And this is
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  Speaker 1: Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. Our second half today being
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  Speaker 1: today or shop online at store.utah.edu. 42-6 Utah here. Got
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: a tight one down in Provo right now. Arizona State
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  Speaker 1: trailing BYU 17-10 with 3.23 to 3.26 to play in
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: the third quarter. 17-10. Cougars will be in Salt Lake
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  Speaker 1: City next Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Got a morning rivalry game. 10 a.m. kickoff for Utah
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  Speaker 1: and BYU next Saturday morning. Utah's got it first and
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: 10 at the Cincinnati 46-yard line to begin this drive.
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  Speaker 1: Wayshawn Parker's day is done. I think Devin Dampier's day
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: is probably done too. Let's see. Nope, he's still out there.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: So is Bert Picklin. Daniel Bray's day also likely done
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: here for Utah. We'll see a lot of Steven Chavez Soto,
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: maybe a little bit of LaMarcus Bell and And maybe
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: Matiaki Halu. See if Utah can punch one in here.
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  Speaker 1: They put up 28 in the second quarter, 14 in
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  Speaker 1: the first quarter. Nothing so far here in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: First and 10 as Devin operates out of the shotgun.
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  Speaker 1: Fakes the pitch, down the field, takes a shot down
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  Speaker 1: the field. He's got a man open, it's caught. Inside
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  Speaker 1: the 20. And down to the Bearcats, 17-yard line. What
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  Speaker 1: a grab. It was just late, but he was so open.
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  Speaker 2: The fakes were just terrific. It was just a little late.
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  Speaker 2: If he caught it late in stride, he might have
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  Speaker 2: had ability to make the defender miss.
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  Speaker 1: Might have been a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but just a terrific play design right there. Got
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 2: the defense looking left, looking right, and you hit Creed
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  Speaker 2: right down the middle.
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  Speaker 1: 29 yards into the red zone once again. The Canyonview
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  Speaker 1: Credit Union red zone to the Cincinnati 17-yard line. Devin
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  Speaker 1: out of the shotgun, Bird Ficklin next to him. Throws
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  Speaker 1: the flanker screen to the outside, pick six!
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  Speaker 9: Here goes Cincinnati the other way!
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  Speaker 2: 50, 40, 30, 20, 10-5 touchdown!
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  Speaker 1: Jacob Finley read it, picked it, and took it the
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  Speaker 1: other way for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: That's just a long throw. It's a long throw for Devin.
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  Speaker 2: But I can't say that because we've been hitting that before.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just not blocked up extremely well. And the
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  Speaker 2: person that was supposed to block him should have been
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  Speaker 2: able to make the tackle after he intercepted.
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  Speaker 1: 80 yards on the pick six the other way. We've
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  Speaker 1: seen three defensive scores today. Two pick sixes today. And
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: for Cincinnati, that's a big one right there for Jacob Finley.
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  Speaker 1: His first interception of the year for the Bearcats, and
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  Speaker 1: Rusnak will attempt the PAT right here. First Cincinnati touchdown
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  Speaker 1: of the afternoon. The PAT is through. And so with 6.24
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  Speaker 1: to play here in the third quarter, the pick six
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  Speaker 1: makes it 42-13. I mean, Finley saw that the whole way.
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  Speaker 1: That was Braden Pagan. He was supposed to be blocking
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  Speaker 1: for Kyrie Scholes. I'm sorry for Ricky Johnson. He missed
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  Speaker 1: the block on Finley, and Finley took it the other way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I could really get a look at a deeper
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  Speaker 2: replay on that because, one, the receiver has to look
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  Speaker 2: inside for the snap, and if the defender is moving
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  Speaker 2: around as he's looking inside, he could be in a
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  Speaker 2: different position from blocking. But that setup, that formation, defense
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  Speaker 2: knows that they're going smoke with that. So I can
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  Speaker 2: jump whatever's short because I have an extra guy behind me.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 2: So I don't know if Devin saw that. That's just...
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 2: There's a lot there to unpack, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: that's just a great play by Finley at jumping in
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  Speaker 2: the lane right there and taking that to the house.
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  Speaker 1: the game as much as anyone. Visit sportsmed.uofu.edu. so cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: gets their first touchdown of the day midway through the
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: third on a defensive score by jacob finley 42-13 our
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  Speaker 1: score utah's going to get the football back here it's
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: not been a super inspiring second half offensively so far
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: for the utes larry simmons that's going to take it
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  Speaker 1: out from the goal line larry is going to get
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  Speaker 1: stopped at the nine-yard line. What's going on right now, Sly?
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: Utah looks like they've kind of come out of the
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: second half. And that's twice now we've seen Simmons take
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: it from the corner, and that's a tough return.
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  Speaker 2: My thing is, as a returner, and he's the off man, too.
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 2: If you're getting the ball as the off man, that
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  Speaker 2: should be nine out of ten times you're going to
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 2: let a touchdown. It's rare where you bring that out.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 2: But that means that you've got to go all the
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 2: way back to the other side of the field to
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  Speaker 2: make the return blocking happen. So you're going sideways. You're
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  Speaker 2: picking up no yards. That's what sucks on that play.
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  Speaker 2: But Utah's literally taking their foot off the gas. Exactly
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 2: what we said at halftime of what can happen feels
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  Speaker 2: like it's happening here to Utah.
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: LaMarcus Bell in the ball game with Steven Chavez Soto.
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  Speaker 1: Devin Dampier remains in it quarterback here for Utah. Full
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  Speaker 1: house backfield on first and 10 from the nine yard line.
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  Speaker 1: Devin's going to keep it himself out on the edge.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: Devin's got the 10 and 11. And that's it, a
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: two-yard gain. They'll give him the 12. He was wrapped
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  Speaker 1: up around the neck.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like that. I hated the way he came down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was just an odd way to fall for
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  Speaker 1: Devin Dampier.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like those plays for him in this game
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  Speaker 2: right now. So for me, I'm getting Burt Ficklin more
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  Speaker 2: plays here.
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  Speaker 1: Second down and seven now after the three-yard gain by
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  Speaker 1: Devin Dampier.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't like this.
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  Speaker 1: LaMarcus Bell, Chavez Soto in the backfield here. Now they'll
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  Speaker 1: motion a man out of the backfield. Devin's going to throw.
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  Speaker 1: Looking down the field, dumps it off into the flat.
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  Speaker 1: Chavez Soto catches it, but he's going to lose a yard.
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  Speaker 1: Back to the 10-yard line. You want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: out of sync right now? It's the Utah offense. They
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: look really out of sync.
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  Speaker 2: This is what we talked about. This is exactly what
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  Speaker 2: you didn't want to have happen. You want to take
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  Speaker 2: your momentum into the next game. And now you switch
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 2: out Devin Dampier.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Devin looks like he's coming off gingerly right there
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  Speaker 1: after that last tackle. He comes out of the ballgame.
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  Speaker 1: Bird Ficklin comes in here on third down and nine.
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  Speaker 1: I hope Devin's okay. He seems to be, but kind
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  Speaker 1: of ran off just a little gingerly.
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  Speaker 2: Ten seconds on the play clock.
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  Speaker 1: Play clock at five. Play clock at four for Bird
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  Speaker 1: Ficklin from his own ten-yard line. Bird throws the screen
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  Speaker 1: to the flat to LaMarcus Bell. He's going to get
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  Speaker 1: up the field. LaMarcus gets to the 16, and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: The Cincinnati defense is rallied here in the second half
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  Speaker 1: and Utah's going to put again from their own 16
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  Speaker 1: yard line this time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the out of sickness is completely correct, but they're
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  Speaker 2: taking their foot off the gas man and you're giving
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  Speaker 2: up defensive touchdowns. You're not looking great. There's just mistakes
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  Speaker 2: all across the board here. This team definitely has to
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  Speaker 2: play better and finish this football game. Doesn't matter how
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  Speaker 2: much you're up. The game's not 14 is now reporting
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  Speaker 2: at 38 on Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: Malachi Henry stands at his own 42. Orion Phillips with
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: a punt. Gets this one away.
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  Speaker 2: That's a dandy.
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  Speaker 1: That is a howitzer of a kick. Henry backpedaling to
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  Speaker 1: his own 25-yard line. He's going to try to get
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  Speaker 1: to the outside. He's not going to get there. He's
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  Speaker 1: tripped up and taken down. Back at the Cincinnati 22-yard line.
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  Speaker 1: What a punt by Orion Phillips. He flipped the field
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  Speaker 1: big time that time for the University of Utah. And
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati will begin first and 10 at their own 22-yard line.
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  Speaker 1: 59-yard punt that time for Orion Phillips.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful. Great hang time. Great everything. Made him go backwards.
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  Speaker 2: He had to spin out of that. And Elijah Reed
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  Speaker 2: made him bounce a little bit more. And I believe
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  Speaker 2: it was Chavez Soto that cleaned that up.
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  Speaker 1: So first and ten for J.C.
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  Speaker 4: French.
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  Speaker 1: The Bearcat offense still haven't scored a touchdown here today.
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: French out of the shotgun with Tab next to him
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  Speaker 1: on first and ten. Going to look to throw. Pressure
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  Speaker 1: coming over the middle. Nearly intercepted. Oh, my goodness. It
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  Speaker 1: hit Cyrus Polu right in the hands, and he dropped
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: it at about the 26-yard line.
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  Speaker 2: Could we have four defensive points touchdowns today? That would
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 2: have been a pick six by Polu right there.
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  Speaker 1: Cyrus hitting his helmet. Both he and Elijah Ellis were
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: right there. Neither one of them came away with it.
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  Speaker 1: Second down and ten. Going to spread the field this
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: time with five pass catchers. Utah shifting personnel around right now.
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: They're going to bring Tab back in the backfield of
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: the pistol formation. They're going to hand it to Cole Tab.
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: Cole Tab's going to break to the outside. Cole Tab
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  Speaker 1: has got running room out to about the 30-yard line
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: and pushes the pile to the 31, almost 32. They're
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  Speaker 1: going to give him first down yardage. That was a
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: 10-yard gain by Cole Tab.
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  Speaker 2: Just a basic counterplay right there, but we are in
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 2: a nickel sub package defense that does not get the pullers.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't get enough guys over there next, you know, 10-yard gain.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Benny made the tackle, but not before Tab picked
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: up 10 in the Cincinnati first down. Clock running at
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: 335 to play here in the third quarter. French to
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: pass again. Here comes the blitz in his face. Elijah
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: Ellis hits him. Ball goes incomplete. Almost another sack for
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: Elijah Ellis. French threw it incomplete. Almost an interception for
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: Bobo Chennault.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a good play. Good job on this blitz.
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 2: Cyrus Polo comes down. Elijah Ellis comes off of the
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 2: green dog blitz. This guy's blocking, so Elijah gets the
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 2: blitz right there, almost comes.
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: Away with another big sack. 42-13, Utah clock stopped with 3.31
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: to play here in the third. Cincinnati from their own
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  Speaker 1: 32-yard line. Utah with five of the line of scrimmage,
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: looking to pop pass it to the outside. They've got Fenner,
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: the wide receiver, and he's ripped down immediately. Excellent work
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: by Elijah Davis coming all the way across the formation
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: that time to make the tackle. Well done by Scooby.
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  Speaker 1: They'll bring up third down.
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 2: Great job by Scooby at tracking his guy all the
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 2: way across the field right there. That is not easy
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 2: to do, folks. It's essentially a 40-yard dash sprint right
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 2: there from the left corner all the way to the
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 2: right side of the field and making that tackle right there.
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: Bearcats three out of nine on third down. They face
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: a third down and seven right now. Utah brings in
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: the pass rushers.
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  Speaker 7: J.C.
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: French backs up into the shotgun. He splits three wide
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: receivers to the right-hand side. Tailback Cole Tabb. Utah's going
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: to rush just four this time. See if they can
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: get home. French looking. Stepping away for the rush. Dumps
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: it over the middle. It's caught by Tab. But he'll
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: be well shy of first down yardage. Out to about
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: the 37 yard line. Fourth down and almost six coming up.
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: And they'll leave the offense out there trailing 42-13. Oh shoot.
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  Speaker 2: The way Utah's offense is looking this second half. I'd
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 2: go for it too.
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: So third down. Make it fourth down and a long
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: five here for the Bearcats. Tab stays in. Two receivers left,
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: two receivers right. Let's see if Colton Swan decides to
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: heat him up. French out of the shotgun. Utah pressing
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage. They motioned Fenner out. Here
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: comes the pass rush. French looking down the field and incomplete.
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: Flags fly. It's going to be pass interference on Utah.
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: They're going to get Scooby Davis for grabbing on to
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: the wide receiver, J.B. Gibson.
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  Speaker 2: That's the move I use on punt return. It's called
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 2: a Yeah, hook and launch you into a slingshot, right?
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 2: You hook the right hip and come all around the
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 2: other side.
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  Speaker 8: Pass interference, defense, number nine, 15-yard penalty, automatic first down.
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: Just the second penalty of the day on Utah. Two
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: penalties for 20 yards now. That penalty brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by Ann Collar, Utah's number one shirt. So that moves
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: the ball to the Utah 48-yard line and keeps the
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: drive alive. Two minutes and a second to play here
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: in the third quarter. 42-13 Utes. First down, handoff. Straight ahead, Tab.
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: There he goes.
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 4: 35-30, 25-20, 15-10-5.
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  Speaker 1: Touchdown. Colt Tab.
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  Speaker 9: 48 yards right.
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  Speaker 1: Up the gut. And the Bearcats are about to cut
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: this Utah lead in half with time remaining here in
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: the third quarter.
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 2: Not looking great. Not looking great. As impressive and as,
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 2: you know, we were pretty much speechless in the first
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 2: half for what Utah offense, we had no, they were
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 2: just rolling. It was awesome. I think the exact 180
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 2: of that in the second half, offense, defense, everybody's looked
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 2: like smut here today.
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: It just kind of looked like they stayed in the
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: locker room at halftime.
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this game was not over.
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati going for two here to make it a 21-point game.
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: French backpedals to pass on the two-point conversion. Pumps once.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: Now he's going to try to run for it. Jump pass.
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: End zone incomplete. Trying to get that ball to Isaiah Johnson.
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: It goes incomplete. And the score, 42-19 with a minute
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: 54 seconds to play here in the third quarter. We'll
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: keep it right here. That touchdown, a 48-yard touchdown run
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: by Cole Tabb. He's now got 11 carries for 124 yards.
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: And right now the Bearcats, despite being down by 23 points,
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: have 355 yards of total offense.
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 2: But this is what sucks. At the end of this game,
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 2: all we're going to be talking about is what happened
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 2: in the second.
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 4: Half, right?
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 2: Another third quarter collapse. Something that we've been pointing out
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 2: here has happened multiple times. What is going on in
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 2: the third quarter? What is going on in the second half?
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 2: And instead of talking about how great we were in
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 2: the first half, all we're going to be talking about
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 2: is what the heck was this?
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: Well, Utah's got a minute 54 in the third and
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  Speaker 1: all the fourth quarter to try and jumpstart things again.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to go after the kickoff down to Zach
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  Speaker 1: Moss and check in with Zach and see what he's
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  Speaker 1: seeing because it just kind of feels like everything, the
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: energy level seems to have kind of gone down on
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: that Utah sideline just a little bit. Larry Simmons back
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  Speaker 1: deep to receive. Along with Kyrie Scholes. And unless this
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: kick is really short, I bet they're not going to
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  Speaker 1: bring this one out. They aren't. They'll let it go
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  Speaker 1: out for a touchback. Let's go down to the sideline
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: to Zach Moss. Zach, what have you seen over this
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: third quarter? Because it really feels like everything's kind of
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  Speaker 1: just dropped a notch or two here for Utah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, we talk about it every week, don't we? Right?
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 3: Never playing four full quarters of football. It continues to
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 3: show up each and every week, no matter what the
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 3: scoreboard may look like, right?
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  Speaker 4: This is part of our identity at this point. So
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  Speaker 4: hopefully these guys can put at.
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  Speaker 3: Least one more touchdown, 10 more points in this fourth
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  Speaker 3: quarter here and get us out of here clean.
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  Speaker 1: Devin Dampier is back in the ballgame here for Utah.
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  Speaker 1: First and 10 from their own 25 with Steven Chavez
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  Speaker 1: Soto in the backfield. They bring Daniel Bray, who's also
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: back in the ballgame in motion. Daniel catches the pop pass.
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: He's got the 30. He's got the 35, and he's
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: upended at the Utah 37-yard line. That'll be a 12-yard
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  Speaker 1: gain and an Ivory Holmes first down as Utah picks
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  Speaker 1: up 12 big yards right there. Devin gets to 200
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: on the afternoon. Daniel Bray's got another catch, and Utah
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  Speaker 1: moves the chains.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, those guys being back in the game just means
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 2: Scali's pissed off. Right, because the execution has gone way down.
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 2: The level of focus has gone way down in the
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 2: second half. Got to finish the game.
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  Speaker 1: From the Utah 38-yard line, they gave in an extra yard.
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  Speaker 1: Full house backfield this time for the Utes. Going to
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: hand that ball to Daniel Bray again, and he'll get
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: out to the 41-yard line and pick up three on
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: first down as the clock runs down to a minute
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  Speaker 1: 10 and rolling here in the third quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Another simple run play. Got to continue to move the ball,
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 2: move the chains. I know they're going to do four-minute offense,
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 2: but they're essentially wasting the clock here. They need to
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 2: have a level of execution that's better than what they've
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  Speaker 2: had here in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they dominated the first 30 minutes of this game,
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 1: but Cincinnati's owned the third quarter so far. 42-19 Utah.
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  Speaker 1: Clock running at 45 seconds. Second down and seven for
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: the Utah 41. Devin in the shotgun. Bray next to him.
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  Speaker 1: Devon's going to keep it himself, now pop pass over
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: the middle, and it's nearly intercepted, he tried to get
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: that ball to Pegg, and he threw it too far
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: in front of him, and Cincinnati just about came up
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 1: with the interception, Zay Johnson.
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 2: There's a miscommunication on that, like if Devon is expecting
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 2: the receiver to continue running, and the receiver is sitting down,
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 2: that's happened multiple times, I don't know what that is,
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know who's wrong, or what, but it They're
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 2: not on the same page on that.
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  Speaker 1: Utah's missed their last three third downs. Flags fly. That's
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: going to be offside on Cincinnati. Down the field he goes.
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  Speaker 5: Caught.
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  Speaker 1: Hunter Andrews.
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  Speaker 5: Ten.
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  Speaker 2: Five.
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  Speaker 9: Touchdown. Touchdown. Hunter Andrews. Fifty-nine yards right down the middle.
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  Speaker 9: And into the end zone he goes for a Utah touchdown.
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  Speaker 5: Offside. Defense. Number 31 in the neutral zone at the snap.
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  Speaker 5: That peel is declined. Touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Free play. Hang 60 on him. Come on. Pour it on.
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  Speaker 2: Finish this game. Great. Look at that speed by Hunter
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 2: Andrews in open field.
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  Speaker 1: That is not tight end speed right there.
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  Speaker 2: He's our tight end speed. Great job right there by
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 2: Hunter Andrews. As I said, I loved his role picking
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 2: up here these last few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: How about that big play for Utah? A 59-yard touchdown
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: pass from Devin Dampier to Hunter Andrews. Hunter Andrews looking
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: a lot like Brant Keithy, another Katy, Texas native on
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: that play. Five catches, 112 yards, and two touchdowns today
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: for Hunter Andrews. Devin Dampier now up to 22 of
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: 29 for 260 and three touchdowns. And I think that's
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: the type of execution Morgan Scali was looking for out
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: of his offense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not going to stop because he's pissed
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 2: off right now. So expect Devin Dampier to stay in
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 2: the game. Expect these guys to stay in the game.
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 2: Expect us to stay aggressive, not just running the football
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 2: right there. That was a great job of executing the
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 2: free play. That's a free play right there. Everybody knows it.
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 2: So whatever the original play was, you're not really doing
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 2: the original play. It's a free play. Let's go to
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 2: the end zone. Everybody runs streaks. And that's what Hunter
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 2: Andrews does right there and gets right past the defender.
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 2: for a touchdown. Amazing job of execution by Devin and
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 2: his offense on that broken play.
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: That touchdown, a Pepsi touchdown, and good to see the
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: Utah offense show back up again here in the third quarter.
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: First points of the second half puts them back up
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: by 30 now, 49-19. And how about the afternoon for
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: young Hunter Andrews? I saw his mom last week at
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: the tailgate tent, and she said, let's get my boy
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: some more touches.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Andrews, your boy got a few more touches today, and
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: he's making the most of them. Five catches, 112 yards,
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: and two touchdowns for Hunter Andrews.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, and I really like him getting involved. When
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 2: he was involved last year, we were cooking with gasoline,
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 2: and he's getting back involved in this offense, and we're
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 2: looking great.
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  Speaker 1: Kickoff by Dylan Curtis over the head of Zylan Perry,
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: and out of the end zone it goes. Curtis has
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: been great today with his kickoffs. And first and ten
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati with 28 seconds to play here in the third quarter,
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: and Utah leading at 49-19. Got an interesting game going
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: in Provo right now. 17-17, early fourth quarter, Arizona State
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: and BYU. Cougars have it fourth and two at the
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: Sun Devil 26. Pistol formation, J.C. French. Got the tail back,
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: Jabron Payne behind him. Motions a receiver out to the outside,
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: play action pass for French, throw into the outside, caught there.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 1: Knocked out of bounds after about an 8-yard gain to J.B.
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 2: Gibson.
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 1: Give him 9 yards to the 34-yard line. That might
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: be the final play of the third quarter unless Cincinnati
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 1: hurries to the line here, which they might. And they will.
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 1: 10 seconds, 9 seconds. See if they get one off
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: here before we hit the end of the third quarter.
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: And French is just going to let this one go
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: to the end of the fourth quarter. To the end
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: of the third and to the fourth quarter we go.
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: There we go. Three quarters in the books here in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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  Speaker 5: This is the end. of the third quarter.
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 1: Shaky start to the third for Utah, but they righted
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: the offense and got a touchdown late in the third.
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: We head to the fourth quarter with Utah on top 49-19.
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  Speaker 1: As we head to the fourth quarter, Utah Football from
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  Speaker 1: for everyone. Third quarter numbers, courtesy of Dave Spadafore. Utah
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  Speaker 1: 143 yards, 12 on the ground, 131 through the air.
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati 76 yards, 58 on the ground, 48 came on
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: one run. 18 through the air. Utah ran 22 plays.
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  Speaker 1: Bearcats 14. Utah had a sack. Cincinnati didn't. Utah converted
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: three third downs. Cincinnati not a one. But the Bearcats
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: got a touchdown on a pick six. Thankfully for Devin,
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: he doesn't lose 80 yards on that pick six. He's
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: got 260 and three touchdowns here today. Hunter Andrews having
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 1: himself a big day though today. Five catches for 112 yards.
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  Speaker 1: As we head to the fourth quarter, Cincinnati with the
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: football trailing 49 to 19.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is, again, my biggest thing, and I would
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 2: be upset, and I hate that, you know, we have
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 2: such a great performance, and we're going to talk about
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 2: our third quarter woes. Our third quarter woes that are
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 2: starting us, and we get into these tough games here
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 2: later in the football season, and we're thinking like, oh, yeah,
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 2: we have a third quarter woe, so what? Like, no,
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 2: exactly what we've been saying the last few weeks, we
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 2: have to play 60 minutes of great football sometime soon.
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 2: This team has to put it together and stop these
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 2: third quarter woes.
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: Well, we were talking to Zach at the commercial, and
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: there might have been something about Wayshon Parker not playing
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 1: at all there in the third quarter. They're resting him
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: up and keeping him fresh for next week. But maybe
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: some of that disruption on the offense was not having
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: your best running back in there.
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  Speaker 2: No, for me, it's execution, right? I mean, we're talking
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 2: about the depth on this team. You can run basic
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 2: run plays where you can get third and one, third
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 2: and inches by whoever's back there. And, yeah, so I
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 2: don't agree with that.
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  Speaker 1: Second and one from the 34 of Cincinnati to hand
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: the ball to Payne. Tail back through the hole, making
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: big yards out to the 44-yard line. He picked up
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: 10 yards right up the gut of that Utah defense.
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: Jabron Payne with one of his best runs of the day.
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: And a first down for the Bearcats.
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what happened on that, but he
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 2: was dragging defenders. I don't know how he squeezed through there.
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: Utah's first-team defense back in there, though, on this drive.
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: First and ten, Bearcats at their own 44-yard line. J.C.
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: French backs up into the shotgun again, and he's going
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: to play action pass. Looks down the field, fires down
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: the field. He's got a man wide open. Wide open
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: in Utah territory.
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  Speaker 2: J.V.
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  Speaker 1: Gibson inside the 40 and down to the Utah 35-yard line.
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: How was he that wide open, Sly?
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, one, Jackson took a little while to
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 2: get outside. to the flats. One, you try to reroute
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 2: the receiver, but instead of rerouting him, he backs up.
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 2: Jackson Binney backs up and makes it late getting out
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 2: to the flat.
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 1: First and ten at the Utah 35. Cincinnati on the
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: move again. First down handoff. Jabron Payne into the open field.
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 2: Tripped up.
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, goodness gracious. John Uhal just got him around the ankle. Otherwise,
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: that might have been a house call for Payne as
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 1: he picks up eight yards on first down.
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  Speaker 2: We're just getting out of our gaps.
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati right now, Sly. Over 400 yards of total offense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's just us not playing great at all.
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  Speaker 2: But credit to them.
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: Second down and a long two here for the Bearcats
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: from the Utah 27-yard line. J.C. French backpedals to pass.
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: Looking down the field, dumps it off. He's got Payne
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: right ahead of the line of scrimmage. He moves inside
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: the 20 and down to the Utah 18-yard line for
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 1: nine more yards. Hall made the tackle, but the Bearcats
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: have found a rhythm here in the second half on offense.
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, get it to the running backs. That's just a
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 2: check down. That happens, but we are really out of
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 2: sync here on defense.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we are. Hand off Payne, straight ahead, bounces to
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: the outside, 10 to the 5, and out of bounds
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: at the Utah 2-yard line. I mean, Payne almost took
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: it to the house. That was a gain of 16,
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: first and goal, Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 2: I can't say it. I just don't know. We need
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 2: to play with a little bit more aggression, a little
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 2: bit more sound, focusedness. By giving up these points and yardage,
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 2: that's momentum I don't want to go into next week with.
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 1: First and goal at the Utah two-yard line. Payne stays
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: in the ballgame, lined up in a pistol formation. First down, handoff. Payne, nope,
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: French keeps it himself, and he'll dive into the end
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: zone for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 4: J.C.
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  Speaker 1: French calls his own number. And that's his seventh rushing
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: touchdown of the year. And the Bearcats put another six
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: up on the board. 49-25, and they're going to go
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 1: for two. Second offensive touchdown of the half for the Bearcats.
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 1: They also have a pick six that went 80 yards.
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: Leave the offense out to try to make it a
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 1: 22-point game if they can convert the two-point conversion here.
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: Paying the tailback.
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  Speaker 2: He's out on the slot over here.
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: Receiver in motion, French to throw. Looking, looking, scanning, end zone,
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: broken up. John O'Hall got his hand up to knock
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: that ball away, and the two-point conversion denied. And the
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: score stays at 49-25 with 12-16 to play here in
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: the ballgame. We've got a timeout on the field here
• 2:11:01
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  Speaker 1: Back at Nippert Stadium. Sun setting on a Halloween Saturday
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  Speaker 1: night here in the Queen City of Cincinnati. Utah 49
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  Speaker 1: and Cincinnati 25. Our second half being brought to you by...
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  Speaker 1: Network Control. Glad to be with you guys as you
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: get ready to go out and trick-or-treat tonight back in
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: Salt Lake City. Keep us in your ears. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: a little post-game show coming up. Talk to Morgan Scali
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 1: and some of the players as Utah. Is 12 minutes
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  Speaker 1: and 16 seconds away from going to 8 and 0
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  Speaker 1: on the season on a Carvalho back deep to receive
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: this kick. The University of Utah rust snacks high and
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 1: end over end kick. Mon is going to fair catch
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: it at the three yard line and Utah will take
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: it first intended their own 25 yard line. Have we
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 1: seen the last of Devin Dampier today? I think we
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: have heard. Ficklin's got the helmet on Lamarcus spells going
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: to be your tailback and. Devin Dampier's day will be done.
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  Speaker 1: We'll put him in bubble wrap before the BYU game.
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  Speaker 1: He finishes up today 22 of 29, 260 yards, three touchdowns,
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: an interception. And he ran today for 45 yards and
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 1: set the all-time quarterback rushing mark. So a pretty solid
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: day for Devin Dampier today.
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he did good. Except for the interception for six,
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 2: I love what Devin Dampier was able.
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  Speaker 4: To do today.
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  Speaker 1: Need a big effort out of him next week against
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: the BYU Cougars. Bird Ficklin's going to keep it himself.
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: Bird's going to go straight ahead, bounce it to the outside, spin,
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: and pick up about four yards to the 29. Not
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 1: sure Bird needed to spin there. He probably could have
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: kept going back upfield. Jay Johnson made the tackle for
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 1: the Bearcats. He hit the B button, went on that spin,
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: and thought he was going to go up the sideline,
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: but Jay Johnson got it.
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, as A. Johnson caught him in that spin move,
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 2: if he was able to get out of that in
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 2: a clean spin, he probably would have got a few
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 2: more yards.
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  Speaker 7: Out of that.
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: Bicklin stays in at quarterback. Dampier done for the day.
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: And the tailback of the ball game is LaMarcus Bell.
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  Speaker 1: Second down and six from the 29 for Utah. Burr
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  Speaker 1: letting that play clock tick down to seven and six.
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  Speaker 1: Now he wants the snap. And takes it. Hand off Bell.
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  Speaker 1: LaMarcus straight ahead into the open field. Runs over a
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  Speaker 1: man and keeps those legs moving out beyond the 40
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  Speaker 1: to about the 43-yard line. That's a gain of 14
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  Speaker 1: yards and a first down for Utah. Ivory Holmes first down.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about. I love that. Look at
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 2: that downhill track right there. Cuts right inside of that
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  Speaker 2: left guard right off edge. Picks up a nice gain
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  Speaker 2: on first down.
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  Speaker 1: Utah now with 489 total yards of offense, closing in
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  Speaker 1: on 500 on the afternoon. Cincinnati, by the way, at 430.
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  Speaker 1: Clock running inside of 11 minutes to play. Bird Ficklin
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  Speaker 1: taking his time as he lines up with a shotgun.
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  Speaker 1: Three receivers on the left-hand side this time for Bird.
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  Speaker 1: Now he motions LaMarcus Bell out of the backfield. Bird
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  Speaker 1: going to keep it himself. Going to try and break
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  Speaker 1: out of a tackle and does beyond the 45. And
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: out to the 48-yard line for a gain of five
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  Speaker 1: goes Bird Ficklin.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I like that. It's tough sledding, tough
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 2: yards right there, but it's plays where we haven't seen
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 2: Bird get in the past few weeks, and we need
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 2: him to get some repetitions ahead of the next weeks ahead.
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 1: Look, Makarowski made the tackle for Cincinnati, second down and
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 1: five for Utah, just shy of midfield. Again, Utes not huddling,
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  Speaker 1: just kind of breaking it, standing and letting that play
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 1: clock tick down. Play clock at 10 as Bird now
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 1: calls the play at the line of scrimmage. Backs up
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  Speaker 1: into the shotgun on second down and five. Four wide
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 1: receivers in the pattern this time for the Utes. Picklin
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 1: takes the snap. Hands it off. LaMarcus Bell out to
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 1: the 50. Keeps those legs churning and very close to
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 1: the first down yardage. Did the ball come out? It did.
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: He fumbled and Cincinnati gets it back.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, goodness.
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 5: The fumble recovered by Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like he was about to go down, and
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 1: the Bearcats ripped it out of his arms for a turnover,
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 1: and Utah gives it back to the Bearcats with 9.51
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 1: to play here in the ballgame.
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought he was down, so I took my
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 2: eyes off him. Next thing you know, they got the ball.
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 1: They just ripped it out. It was Patrick Bauer, the
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 1: defensive end, the dog backer who came up with it.
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 1: We've got a timeout on the field. It'll be Bearcat
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 1: football when we get back. Sloppy lead here in Cincinnati.
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 1: Utah 49, Cincinnati 25. And this is Utah football from
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 1: ESPN 700 and the Ute Sports Radio Network.
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• 2:16:32
  Speaker 7: O Tires on ESPN 700 and the Ute Sports Network.
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 1: As defense comes to the field again here in the
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 1: second half for Utah. It's brought to you by our
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  Speaker 1: friends at doTERRA. Bumble now. Utah's turned it over twice.
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 1: This is four games in a row Utah's had at
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 1: least two turnovers. They haven't lost the turnover battle today,
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 1: but it's 2-2 right now. And again, just a sloppy
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 1: second half right now for the University of Utah. Still
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 1: in control of this game, no doubt about it. It
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 1: would take something very miraculous for the final score to change,
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 1: but with 9.51 to play, some things to clean up.
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not looking right. And again, it's still not
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 2: time to look ahead. You have plenty of time this
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 2: next week to look ahead. You have to finish this game.
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, momentum from game to game is huge,
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 2: and we have to get something figured out and finish
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 2: this football game.
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 1: Coltab in the backfield on first and ten with J.C. French.
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  Speaker 1: French has had a nice day today. Outside of the
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: pick six, he's thrown for 263 yards. First down, handoff, tab,
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 1: trying the right-hand side, trying to bounce, not going to
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  Speaker 1: get there. He's going to be stacked up after about
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: a one-yard gain on the play. Just across midfield to
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 1: give him two to the Utah 49-yard line. Jonu Hall,
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 1: who's had a nice day today for Utah, made the tackle.
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  Speaker 2: Great job by Lance Holtzclaw right here. He's dropping back
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 2: into coverage. but then as he's dropping back and recognizes
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 2: his run, hits the edge blocker right there and stalemates
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 2: the edge right there and allows Jonu Hall to run
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 2: through that.
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  Speaker 1: Second down and eight. Tab stays in the ballgame. Utah
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 1: stacking the line of scrimmage. Tab trying to pick his
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 1: way forward. He's going to get thrown backwards. Ethan Day,
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 1: Jonu Hall there again for Utah. Nate Ritchie also in
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 1: on that play. Going to bring up third down and long.
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 1: Third down and nine as he lost a yard. Back
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  Speaker 1: to the 50-yard line.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good job by the defense at crashing down right here.
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 2: Watch those quick slants and those hit routes on the outside.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully we can get another pick six.
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  Speaker 1: Bearcats three out of ten on third down. They face
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: a third down and nine. Utah showing a blitz. Now
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 1: they're going to back away from it. French is going
• 2:18:34
  Speaker 1: to change the play at the line of scrimmage. Play
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: clock down to ten. Now Utah is going to back
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  Speaker 1: out of that pressure.
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 2: Utah changes the play as well.
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 1: J.C. French out of the shotgun. He's going to run
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 1: the option to the outside. He's got Cole Tabb there
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 1: on the outside. Cole Tabb is going to come up
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  Speaker 1: short of the first down. He's going to come up
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  Speaker 1: about two yards shy. He gets to the Utah 44
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  Speaker 1: to bring up a fourth down at about two and
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  Speaker 1: a half.
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  Speaker 2: Temple, Temple, four down territory here.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Clock running at 823, 822, 821 to play. Bearcat
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  Speaker 1: offense stays out there. It's fourth down and a long
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: three here for the Bearcats. French in tab in the backfield.
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 1: Two receivers left, two receivers right. Let's see what Utah
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: decides to do here on fourth down. The Bearcats are
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 1: 0 for 1 on fourth down today. Utah shifting around
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 1: up front. French takes the snap, backpedals to pass. Here
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 1: comes the blitz in the flat, floats into tab, and
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 1: it goes incomplete. And the Utah defense comes up with
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 1: a stop. That ball was hurried because of the pressure
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 1: in the face of J.C. French. And the Utah defense
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 1: comes up with a big stop. flips it, and the
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: Utah offense will come back out here with 7.59 to
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  Speaker 1: play in the ballgame.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see how good this second unit's four-minute offense is, right?
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 2: Totally understand. I know they are wasting time off the
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 2: clock at the line of scrimmage, but they need to
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 2: look clean. These blocks need to look clean. This is
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 2: the second unit offensive line, second unit running back, second
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 2: unit guys. You still have to have clean operations here
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 2: in this football game.
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 1: Haleu and Bell are the tailbacks with Bird Ficklin, the quarterback.
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 1: First and 10 Utah from their own 44-yard line. Leading 49-25.
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  Speaker 1: Just about halfway through the fourth quarter here in Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: Bell motions out. They hand the ball to Chavez Soto.
• 2:20:21
  Speaker 1: He's into the open field. 50, 45, and down to
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 1: the Bearcat. 43-yard line. Chavez Soto looked like he was
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: running for gut. Was it Haleu? Oh, it was Haleu.
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 1: who was looking for guys to run into that time
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 1: instead of run away from.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that was my running style. I looked for contact.
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 2: I wasn't trying to run away from guys, but that
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 2: was good either way. That was a big gain on
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 2: first down, exactly what we needed.
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 1: Matiaki Hale, who they like an awful lot. They like
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 1: all these running backs an awful lot. First and 10
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  Speaker 1: for the Bearcat 43-yard line. Hale who had the carry
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 1: stays in at tailback. Pistol formation behind Bird Ficklin. Two
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 1: tight ends, two wideouts here as they shift the formation
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: to the left-hand side. Five on the play clock here
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: for Ficklin. Bird takes the snap. Hands to Hale again.
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  Speaker 1: Straight ahead running for him inside the 40. Keeps those
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 1: legs running and gets down to the 36-yard line. That's
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 1: a gain of seven by Matiaki Hale.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a great job of keeping your legs
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 2: pumping right there and getting those extra yardage, pushing that pile.
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 2: Everybody wants to chime in on that. And also, Kanai Lopes,
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 2: former linebacker, Now a tight end. Now a tight end.
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 2: Extremely athletic guy, man. And so hopefully he can develop
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 2: into a nice asset on offense as well.
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 1: Utah again letting that clock drip down. 15 on the
• 2:21:39
  Speaker 1: play clock. Bird's going to call the play at the
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. 6.35 on the game clock. First naked
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  Speaker 1: second down and three from about the 36-yard line. Haleu
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  Speaker 1: motions out of the backfield.
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  Speaker 2: Bird.
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  Speaker 1: Going to keep it himself on the outside edge. Breaks
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  Speaker 1: one tackle, 35. Out of bounds at about the 32.
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  Speaker 1: He needed three. He picked up four. And that's a
• 2:22:01
  Speaker 1: first down for Utah. Good blocking out on the edge, too,
• 2:22:04
  Speaker 1: by Carvalho for Utah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great. I mean, I just like it except
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 2: for going out of bounds. But he had to kind
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 2: of go out of bounds in order to pick up
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  Speaker 2: that first down. So I'll take the first down over
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 2: stopping the clock right there. But he definitely won. Oh,
• 2:22:17
  Speaker 2: clock's still rolling. I'll take it.
• 2:22:19
  Speaker 1: Tobias Merriweather in the ballgame for the first time in
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: a while for Utah. Two receivers split wide to the
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 1: left-hand side here. And Ficklin again calling the play at
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. And backs up into the shotgun
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 1: with ten seconds to go on the play clock. Haleu
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 1: and Bell are your backs. Now the motion of LaMarcus
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 1: Bell out of the backfield. Hand off. Haleu right side. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and he's ripped down by his face mask. Here come
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 1: three and four flags on the play. Goodness gracious.
• 2:22:47
  Speaker 2: That was no little thing. That was a hard one.
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 1: That was an absolute rip job by the face mask.
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 1: And that's at about the 29 yard line. So they're
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 1: going to move that ball forward.
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 2: Worried about his neck on that.
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  Speaker 5: Personal foul.
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 2: Face mask.
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  Speaker 5: Defense. Number 99. Half the distance from the end of
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 5: the run. Automatic first down.
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Rulo. I mean, he got his money's worth on
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: that face mask. Goodness gracious. So that ball gets moved
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 1: inside the 15 to almost the 14 yard line. And
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 1: first and 10 for Utah. I believe the sixth or
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 1: fifth trip inside the Canyon View Credit Union red zone
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 1: today for Utah.
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 2: When does half the distance kick in?
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 1: I think it's once you're inside the 20-yard line. First
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 1: down in 10 for Utah. Pick one out of the shotgun.
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 1: Halew next to him. Bird's going to keep it himself.
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 1: Picks his way forward. He's got the 10. He's got
• 2:23:44
  Speaker 1: the 7-yard line. And down he goes. After a gain
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 1: of eight yards for Bird Ficklin.
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 2: Such a tough runner right there. That's just a great
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 2: job right there. That ends up being an RPO. There's
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 2: an RPO option on that. But I loved him keeping
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 2: that right there. But if he breaks that tackle, which
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 2: he darn sure could have, if he breaks that tackle
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 2: right there, he's in the end zone right there. And
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 2: so Bird Ficklin is just such a hard runner that
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 2: that is a huge asset when he gets in the game.
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 2: No wonder why defenses kind of barrel down on him
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 2: when he's in the football game.
• 2:24:14
  Speaker 1: Under five minutes to play. Second down and three, Utah,
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 1: from the Cincinnati seven-yard line. Ficklin and Halu in the backfield.
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: Tight end across the formation. They hand it to Halu.
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 1: Straight ahead to the two-yard line he goes. They'll say
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 1: his knee went down at the three, but it's first
• 2:24:31
  Speaker 1: and goal, Utah. On an Ivory Holmes first down and
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 1: some really good running on this drive by Matiaki Helu.
• 2:24:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly what you need. We're talking about the four-minute offense,
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 2: wasting clock, but being extremely productive when you do get
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 2: your carries. And that's what you see from this offense.
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 2: They are moving guys off the ball right here as
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 2: they're gaining closer to the end zone. Exactly what you
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 2: want is positive yards on every play right here. It's
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 2: going to open some things up. This might even be
• 2:24:58
  Speaker 2: an RPO touchdown here for Bird. He's going to fake
• 2:25:01
  Speaker 2: it to Matiaki Helu. Come down, act like he's running,
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 2: but hit the slant on the backside.
• 2:25:05
  Speaker 1: First and goal from the three-yard line. Tight end comes
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 1: in motion again. Picklin wants the snap. Gives it to Halu.
• 2:25:11
  Speaker 1: Straight ahead, he'll be stacked up in the line of
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: scrimmage for no gain. Demaine Wilson made the tackle on
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 1: the play for Cincinnati. And the clock continues to run. 345, 344,
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 1: 343 to go. Second down and goal from back at
• 2:25:26
  Speaker 1: about the four-yard line.
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 2: Randall Boyd's coming in.
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 1: Sione and Simi checking the ball game. The Rhino backs.
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 1: Bird Ficklin's going to call the play at the line
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 1: of scrimmage now. Two Rhino backs, a tight end, a
• 2:25:42
  Speaker 1: wide receiver. That's Kyrie Scholes. And Matiaki Helu, the lone tailback.
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 1: Play clock now at 10 as Ficklin backs up into
• 2:25:52
  Speaker 1: the shotgun. Second and goal for the four-yard line. Ficklin
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 1: moves the tight end across the formation. Hand off, Halu
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 1: follows his blockers and gets to the three-yard line. It'll
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 1: be third down and goal. So now third down and
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 1: goal for Utah as we dip under three to play.
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 1: They're just running straight ahead football right now, nothing fancy.
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which is totally fine. It's exactly what you want
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 2: to do is waste as much time as possible. The
• 2:26:23
  Speaker 2: thing is just try to get negative, not to get
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 2: negative plays. You want to inch closer and closer to
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 2: the goal. and the loss of a yard here on
• 2:26:30
  Speaker 2: the last two plays, so that's not what you want.
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 1: So third down and goal. Utah 7 of 10 on
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 1: third down. Play clock at 7. Bird in the backfield
• 2:26:40
  Speaker 1: with Matiaki Hale. One receiver split wide to the left-hand side.
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: Play action throw to the end zone. Incomplete trying to
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 1: get that ball to Larry Simmons, and that's going to
• 2:26:51
  Speaker 1: be pass interference on Cincinnati. It'll be first and goal
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 1: at about the one-yard line here for Utah. Zane Johnson
• 2:26:59
  Speaker 1: had the coverage.
• 2:26:59
  Speaker 2: It's going to be pass interference. We get a new
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 2: set of downs, which is great. You waste more time
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 2: on the clock. It's going to be a little bit
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 2: more of a catchable ball, though. This ball got to
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 2: be a little bit more on the outside for a
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 2: back shoulder fade right there for Larry Simmons.
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 1: Here's our referee.
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  Speaker 5: Pass interference. Defense, number six. The penalty happened in the
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 5: end zone. The ball would be placed at the two-yard line.
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 5: Automatic first down.
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 1: So first and goal at the two-yard line, basically where
• 2:27:27
  Speaker 1: Utah had it moments ago, first and goal. They were
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 1: at the three-yard line last time. And 2.17 to play
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 1: here in the ball game. Haleu and Ficklin. See if
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 1: they let Matiaki Haleu get one here. Got the big
• 2:27:42
  Speaker 1: fella Semitaolonga as the fullback. Ficklin goes under center. Cincinnati
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 1: has 10 at the line of scrimmage. Turn and a give.
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 1: Haleu keeps those legs pushing to the one yard line.
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 1: And that will take us to the two minute timeout.
• 2:27:59
  Speaker 1: Utah doing a good job of both killing the clock
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 1: and continuing to push forward as there's two minutes to
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: play here in Cincinnati. Love it, love it.
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 5: This is the two-minute timeout.
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 1: We'll come back with second and goal for the one-yard
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 1: line with two minutes to play. Utah 49 and Cincinnati
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 1: 25 for the Big O Tires broadcast booth. This is
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 1: Utah football from ESPN 700 and the Ute Sports Radio Network.
• 2:28:28
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• 2:28:35
  Speaker 4: Two minutes to.
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 1: Play here at Dippert Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. Utah's been
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 1: in control all the way through, but they only have
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 1: seven points here in the second half. They were up
• 2:28:44
  Speaker 1: 42-6 at halftime, and they lead 49-25 right now. Bearcats
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 1: got a pick six and a couple of offensive touchdowns.
• 2:28:51
  Speaker 1: Utah's kind of been its own worst enemy in some
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 1: ways here in the second half. but they still lead
• 2:28:56
  Speaker 1: it by 24 points. They've got a second down and
• 2:28:58
  Speaker 1: goal with the Cincinnati one-yard line, and Matiaki Halu's had
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 1: a really nice drive here for Utah. We're going to
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 1: see if Utah lets him pay it off and lets
• 2:29:07
  Speaker 1: him try to get in here for a touchdown. Halu's
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  Speaker 1: got seven carries for 27 yards, all of them on
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  Speaker 1: this drive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, he's looked outstanding on this drive. We had
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 2: Chavez Soto on the previous drive. It didn't look so great.
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  Speaker 2: You insert Matiaki Halu, LaMarcus Bell on this drive as well.
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  Speaker 2: They've done some pretty good things here as far as
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 2: a four-minute offense is concerned.
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  Speaker 1: So Bird Picklin's your quarterback. You've got the Rhino backs,
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 1: a couple of tight ends, and one wide receiver on
• 2:29:37
  Speaker 1: the field. That wide receiver is Monica Arvalho. I would
• 2:29:41
  Speaker 1: be very surprised if anybody but Matiaki Halu touched this football,
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 1: but we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: We've just seen it on the Cincinnati drive.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you pull it here and go. Bird goes under center.
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  Speaker 1: Semitao Longa. Rhino back lined up on the right side.
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  Speaker 1: They turn and they give it to Haleu. Haleu has
• 2:29:57
  Speaker 1: stopped at the one-yard line again. And so it's going
• 2:30:02
  Speaker 1: to be third down and goal now. And the clock
• 2:30:05
  Speaker 1: stopped with a minute 55 to play here. Cincinnati take
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 1: a timeout. Did they stop this for some sort of a.
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 1: Now they're going to wind the clock. Third down and goal.
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  Speaker 1: Utah's going to have to hurry here just a little bit.
• 2:30:20
  Speaker 1: The play clock's down to 19. Subs still coming on
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  Speaker 1: the field here. Halu stays in. Larry Simmons comes in.
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  Speaker 1: Kanai Lopes as well. Dicklin backs up into the shotgun
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  Speaker 1: with Matiaki Halu. Third down and goal for the one-yard line.
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  Speaker 1: Ficklin waits on the snap, takes it, gives it to Haleu,
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  Speaker 1: throws it actually to his man. Oh, goodness, Kanai Lopes
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  Speaker 1: was wide open here on the near sideline. Actually, it
• 2:30:52
  Speaker 1: was Will Money, the tight end, and Ficklin airmailed it
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  Speaker 1: over his head.
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  Speaker 2: Should have actually handed it off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because Haleu dove into the end zone. Now it's
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 1: fourth down and goal.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how he sails this ball.
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  Speaker 1: Money was standing by himself at the pylon, and the
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 1: ball went over his head. So now fourth and goal
• 2:31:13
  Speaker 1: in a timeout taken by who?
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  Speaker 5: Timeout, Utah, their first of the half.
• 2:31:19
  Speaker 2: Because the clock stops because of the incomplete pass. It's just, ugh. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he should have just handed that ball off. That would
• 2:31:27
  Speaker 2: have been a touchdown right there.
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, this offense in the second half has been
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 1: all sorts of out of sorts, hasn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Right. It's kind of like, wait, what?
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  Speaker 1: So a timeout taken. We're going to take it with them.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be back with a fourth and goal when we
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 1: get back on the other side with a minute 22
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  Speaker 1: to play. 49-25 Utah. And this is Utah football from
• 2:31:45
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• 2:31:48
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• 2:31:51
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  Speaker 1: One minute and 22 seconds remain here at Dippert Stadium.
• 2:32:01
  Speaker 1: This has been a weird fourth quarter, to say the least.
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: Utah's got a fourth and goal with the Cincinnati one-yard line.
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  Speaker 1: They've run like eight plays inside the four-yard line and
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 1: still haven't been able to punch it in.
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  Speaker 2: You've got a pass interference penalty, automatic first down, all
• 2:32:18
  Speaker 2: of that. Still nothing.
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  Speaker 1: So fourth and goal. Minute 22 to play. Bird Ficklin
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 1: brings the offense out. Matiaki Halu is your tailback. They
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 1: tried to throw it to the tight end by himself,
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  Speaker 1: and Ficklin missed him by a mile last time. Two
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 1: tights and two wides out of the shotgun. Ficklin and Halu.
• 2:32:42
  Speaker 1: Here comes Carvalho in motion. Bird's going to keep it himself.
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  Speaker 1: Bird's not going to get there. He is stopping well short.
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 1: He lost a yard to the two. The Cincinnati defense
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 1: came up with another stop. The Utah offense... Kind of
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 1: been the story of the second half here today. They're
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 1: going to win this thing and win it convincingly, but
• 2:33:04
  Speaker 1: they have been all sorts of out of sorts on
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: both sides of the football here in the second half.
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like, what the heck, right? It's
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 2: a missed block right there that would have got Bert
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 2: Finklin into the end zone by the puller. And another
• 2:33:20
  Speaker 2: missed opportunity to get points, right? That's points. Talking about CFP,
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 2: we're talking about all this style points matter. And those
• 2:33:27
  Speaker 2: missed points right there are huge as far as that's concerned.
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 1: So French and the offense come out from their own
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 1: two-yard line for Cincinnati with a minute 17 to play.
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 1: Colt Tabb is actually paying the tailback. They hand it
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 1: to Jabron Payne, and he dives out along the five
• 2:33:41
  Speaker 1: to the six-yard line and picks up about four yards.
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati will be happy just to get this one over.
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  Speaker 1: Utah will be happy to hop on the play and
• 2:33:50
  Speaker 1: get home at 8-0 on the year. As we dip
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 1: under a minute to play and then the big one
• 2:33:56
  Speaker 1: next week. BYU is going to hang on to win
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 1: down in Provo today. Going to be a little tighter
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 1: than people thought, but they're going to beat ASU. They're
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 1: inside of about a minute to play down there. Up
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 1: by 10.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought that was going to be a blowout game.
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 1: Pistol formation. Second down and six in movement on the
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 1: right side of the offensive line against Cincinnati. They're going
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 1: to get the right tackle on this.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see. Really the whole right side of the offense flinched.
• 2:34:24
  Speaker 1: Be the seventh penalty of the afternoon here on the Bearcats.
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but again, overall, it's been a great performance. We
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 2: hate the third quarter lows, but this Utah football team
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 2: handled business on the road in enemy territory.
• 2:34:41
  Speaker 1: Well, for those of you just joining us, here's the call.
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 5: Delay a game.
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  Speaker 8: Defense, number 45, Disconcerted Signals.
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  Speaker 5: 5-yard penalty. Second down.
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  Speaker 8: Cincinnati has declined a 10-second runoff.
• 2:35:00
  Speaker 5: The clock will start on a snap.
• 2:35:03
  Speaker 1: Pupu Cepulona called for that, simulating the snap. It'll be
• 2:35:07
  Speaker 1: second down and a yard here for the Bearcats from
• 2:35:09
  Speaker 1: their own 16-yard line. 43 seconds to play. This could
• 2:35:14
  Speaker 1: be the final play of the ballgame. We'll see. French
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 1: is going to pass here on third down and short.
• 2:35:22
  Speaker 1: He's going to Scramble outside, pick up the first down.
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  Speaker 2: J.C.
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  Speaker 1: French to the 20, and he's drilled right there at
• 2:35:28
  Speaker 1: about the 22-yard line. He took a hard hit after
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 1: picking up that first down. And that could be the
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 1: final play of the game unless Cincinnati decides to hustle
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 1: and run one more. They will. They signed up for 60.
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 1: They're going to play for 60 here today. First and
• 2:35:47
  Speaker 1: 10 for the 22-yard line. French to pass. Taking a
• 2:35:52
  Speaker 1: shot down the field and incomplete. Trying to get that
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 1: ball to JV Gibson.
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  Speaker 2: Incomplete.
• 2:36:01
  Speaker 1: So Utah's going to improve to 8-0 on the season.
• 2:36:05
  Speaker 1: 8-0 on the season. And the rivalry game awaits next
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 1: Saturday morning at Rice-Eccles Stadium against the BYU Cougars who
• 2:36:12
  Speaker 1: have just one setback this year.
• 2:36:15
  Speaker 2: Who did UCF get? muddled today by Baylor.
• 2:36:18
  Speaker 1: Last night got beat badly by Baylor. I think 41-9
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 1: was the final score. Second down and 10. 21 seconds
• 2:36:27
  Speaker 1: to play. French to pass. Plenty of time. Steps up.
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 2: Surveys.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to run for it now and slide about
• 2:36:34
  Speaker 1: the 26-yard line. And that'll be the final play of
• 2:36:38
  Speaker 1: the ballgame.
• 2:36:38
  Speaker 2: Utah led 42-6 at.
• 2:36:41
  Speaker 1: Halftime. They're going to win it here tonight by a
• 2:36:47
  Speaker 1: final score of 49-25 and remain perfect on the season
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 1: and set up an absolutely huge game next week against
• 2:36:56
  Speaker 1: the BYU Cougars at Rice-Eccles Stadium. 49-25, our final score
• 2:37:01
  Speaker 1: here in Cincinnati, and it's a great night to be
• 2:37:03
  Speaker 1: a Ute on Halloween.