Brant Kuithe scored two touchdowns and Micah Bernard rushed for 182 yards Saturday as No. 12 Utah opened Huge 12 Convention play with a powerful 22-19 win over No. 14 Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Okla.
The Utes (4-0, 1-0) gained with out beginning quarterback Cam Rising, who missed his second straight sport with a finger damage. Backup Isaac Wilson accomplished 17 of 29 passes for 207 yards with a landing and two interceptions.
Wilson and Kuithe attached for a 45-yard scoring strike on the 6:21 mark of the fourth quarter to offer Utah a 22-3 lead that regarded insurmountable. However the Cowboys (3-1, 0-1) made a sport of it as Alan Bowman related on a 28-yard landing cross to Brennan Presley, then a 9-yarder to Rashod Owens with 1:47 left to chop the deficit to a few.
Nevertheless, the Utes had been in a position to kill the remaining time as Bernard moved the chains with a 4-yard run on Third-and-3 with 48 seconds on the clock. They owned a 456-285 benefit in whole yardage and possessed the ball for greater than 42 minutes.
Bowman hit 16 of 33 passes for 206 yards, tossing a pair of interceptions to go together with the 2 TD passes. Backup Garrett Rangel, who performed chunk of the second half, was 3 of 11 for 31 yards.
With temperatures hovering to 100 levels at kickoff, Oklahoma State initiated scoring on the 8:47 mark of the primary quarter as Logan Ward toed a 23-yard discipline purpose to cap a 62-yard drive. That was it for the Cowboys’ assault till late within the sport.
Utah methodically chewed up yardage and clock for a lot of the sport’s the rest. Cole Becker tied the sport with a 43-yard discipline purpose to start out the second quarter and Kuithe gave it the lead for good with a 1-yard landing plunge with 7:25 left within the half, capping a drive that lasted almost 6 ½ minutes.
Becker upped the result in 16-3 by drilling discipline objectives of 38 and 44 yards, the second coming with 11:29 remaining within the sport.
–Subject Stage Media