BYU Erases a Halftime Deficit to Beat Arizona 28-17
Bear Bachmeier accounted for four touchdowns, three through the air and one on the ground, and BYU turned a 17-14 halftime hole into a 28-17 win over Arizona.
It was a game of trading leads (three lead changes, one tie). Noah Fifita ran in from 11 yards to put Arizona up 7-0, and Bachmeier answered with a 6-yard run to tie it. Michael Salgado-Medina's 37-yard field goal put Arizona back in front, 10-7. Then Bachmeier hit Reggie Frischknecht for 25 yards early in the second quarter, 14-10 BYU, and Fifita found Shane King from 16 yards with 2:03 left in the half to make it 17-14 Arizona. That was the last Arizona score of the day, and the Wildcats were shut out over the final 30 minutes.
In the second half BYU scored twice and Arizona did not at all. Bachmeier connected with Kyler Kasper from 6 yards midway through the third quarter for a 21-17 lead (the score entering the fourth), and again from 12 yards with 6:10 left for the final 28-17.
BYU out-gained Arizona 368 yards to 327, with 217 through the air and 151 on 28 carries (about five and a half a pop), and it did not turn the ball over. Arizona threw one interception and ran 31 times for 97 yards. Arizona's 97 yards on the ground never gave Fifita much help. BYU is 2-0 and Arizona is 1-1.
Fantasy-wise, with 36.4 and 25 points on the board, the two quarterbacks were the top two scorers, and Kasper's pair of touchdown catches put him third.