Utah Blanks Utah State 33-0 Behind Braden Pegan's Two Touchdowns
Utah State ran 25 times for 58 yards and finished with 188 total yards. Utah finished with 482. That is most of the story of a 33-0 game, and the scoreboard barely needed the help. The Utes had 286 passing yards and 196 rushing yards on 35 carries (5.6 a pop), so they did not pick a favorite way to do it.
The Utes were on the board first, Devon Dampier finding Braden Pegan from 28 yards out with 10:37 left in the first quarter. Byrd Ficklin ran in from nine yards (the two-point try failed, so it was 13-0), and Dillon Curtis kicked a 36-yard field goal with four seconds left in the quarter. Curtis added a 54-yarder in the second quarter, and Dampier hit Pegan again from 37 yards with 33 seconds left in the half. Utah led 26-0 at the break and the visitors never scored.
The last points came in the third quarter, when Daniel Bray broke a 63-yard run for the 33-0 final. Utah State threw an interception, and Utah collected four sacks to the Aggies' one. Grady Brosterhous went 15 of 29 for 130 yards, and Eli Wood's four catches for 47 yards led the visitors in fantasy scoring. Utah lost a fumble in a game it won by 33. Nobody will remember it.
Utah moves to 3-0. Utah State falls to 0-3, with a zero in this one that is a hard number to flip. The fantasy takeaway is simple: Pegan's 122 yards came from a receiver who had 7 catches in the first two games combined.