No. 14 Utah rolls against New Mexico 45-14

by Michael Rueckert on Nov 7, 2009 8:06 PM PST in Football Comment 3 comments

Final - 11.7.2009	1	2	3	4	Total
New Mexico Lobos	7	0	0	7	14
Utah Utes	7	10	21	7	45

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The No. 14 Utah Utes -- in arguably their best performance or the year -- crushed the winless New Mexico Lobos 45-14. True freshman, Jordan Wynn, in his first ever start was impressive. Wynn completed 18/28 passes for 297 yards and two touchdowns. The Ute offense has been struggling all season long, but in this game they rolled.

Eddie Wide broke a school record with his sixth straight 100 yard rushing game, as he ran for 145 yards, with 2 touchdowns, on just 20 carries. Wide wasn't the only Utah running back to rush for 100 yards. Sausan Shakerin rushed for exactly that, on just 16 carries.

Wynn showed us all night why the coaches promoted him to starting quarterback over Terrance Cain. He completed many passes down the field, and led the Utah offense into the endzone time after time. Wynn averaged a gain of 10.6 yards per pass, which is very different than the offense when Cain was the starter. The Utes used less screen passes and many more deep balls. The Utes had 557 yards of total offense on the game.

Jereme Brooks had a career game as well. He had 135 yards receiving on just 6 receptions averaging a staggering 22.5 yards per catch. Brooks caught quite a few of Wynn's downfield passes, and did a much better job this game in not dropping any. He had two touchdowns, one from a long pass, and one off a reverse.

New Mexico scored their first touchdown on a 59 yard pass play from Donovan Porterie to Ty Kirk. Their other touchdown came with just 17 seconds left in the game when the Utes unloaded their bench. The Lobos had a very difficult time moving the ball against the touch Utah defense. It doesn't get any better for the Lobos this season as they lose their 13^th straight game with TCU, and BYU still on their schedule.

The stage is now set for the TCU vs. Utah showdown. Both teams had blowout wins, and this match may be between two Top 10 teams, since four teams ahead of Utah lost today. ESPN's College GameDay may be on hand for what should be one of the biggest games in Mountain West football history.

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about time

Utah blows someone out. Nezt week will be interesting

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by Jeremy Mauss on Nov 7, 2009 9:31 PM PST via mobile reply actions 0 recs

this week worked perfectly for the mwc. tcu will be number 4 in bcs rankings

cincy is holding on to games like iowa was. they are going to lose. clemson routed fsu and they have nc.state and maryland left before they get to acc championship game to play gt. if they win tcu’s win over them is huge. so will there win over utah this week. yes jordan wynn looked good but it was at home. wait till he gets to hostile territory and it will be different. tcu wins by at least 2 td’s and the only thing left to say is when the gators bitch slap bama how far does bama fall. hopefully enough for tcu to get to number three. maybe texas losses to texas am. they have had problems before with them. airforce is bowl eligible and i really think unlv will be the fifth team with 6 wins for the mwc.

by wolfmanshowlforever on Nov 7, 2009 11:39 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

UNLV has to beat AF.

The MWC lost their 6th possible team when UNLV beat CSU. Right now the teams are as follows:

TCU: Going bowling.
Utah: Going bowling.
BYU: Going bowling.
AF: Going bowling even if they lose all their games because the conference won’t be filling its slots.
UW: 4-5, has to win 2 of 3 against SDSU, CSU and TCU. Basically has to win the SDSU game, because they should beat UW and they won’t beat TCU, no matter the weather.
SDSU: 4-5, has to win 2 of 3 against Wyoming, UNLV, Utah. Basically has to win the Wyoming game because they should beat UNLV and will lose to Utah unless Utah completely overlooks them, in Salt Lake, leading up to the BYU game.
UNLV: 4-6, has to win next two against AF and SDSU. Loss at AF almost certain, so not going bowling.

That leaves us with 5 teams: TCU, Utah, BYU, AF and the winner of the SDSU/UW game. I can’t see UNLV beating AF, but if they do and UW beats SDSU then the SDSU/UNLV game could be for Sanford’s job and he might win it.

Everyone hates a pink-shirt-wearing communist.

by displacedute on Nov 9, 2009 10:35 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs