Utah Stays Unbeaten, 28-20 over BYU, on Four Interceptions
Four interceptions. BYU threw four of them, Utah threw none, and a 28-20 final is about what that kind of math does to a game that BYU led at halftime.
Utah started 14-0 on a 22-yard Devon Dampier run and a 46-yard Dampier touchdown pass to Braden Pegan. Then BYU scored 20 straight: two Matthias Dunn field goals (31 and 38 yards), a 75-yard touchdown from Bear Bachmeier to Legend Glasker at 13:17 of the second quarter, and a 4-yard LJ Martin run that put the Cougars up 20-14. That was the lead at the break, and BYU did not score again.
Utah's answer came late in the third, when Dampier threw a 14-yard touchdown to Pegan with 1:50 left for a 21-20 lead, and Dampier finished off the scoring with a 3-yard run at 12:03 of the fourth. That is a long time for a 28-20 game to stay 28-20, and it did. The Utes gave the ball away on two lost fumbles of their own, and their 206 passing yards were well behind BYU's 272, but BYU's four interceptions covered all of that, and then some.
Utah is 9-0 now. BYU is 7-2. Utah's four touchdowns covered 22, 46, 14 and 3 yards, which is 85 yards of scoring plays for a team that did not need many. BYU, meanwhile, had two touchdowns and two field goals and handed the ball away four times. For fantasy, Pegan led all scorers at 25.6 with five catches, two touchdowns and a lost fumble, and Glasker had 24.8 on a 75-yard score that was most of his 118 yards.