#17 Utah Survives Scare From SJSU 24-14

by BrysonCutla on Sep 13, 2009 12:47 AM PDT in Mountain West Football

Final - 9.12.2009	1	2	3	4	Total
Utah Utes	7	0	0	17	24
San Jose St. Spartans	0	7	0	7	14

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The #17 Utah Utes (2-0) displayed another mediocre performance as Utah squeaked by with a ten point victory. San Jose State (0-2), coming off a 56-3 beat down from USC showed determination after Brandon Rutley's two yard run to tie the game at 7 in the second quarter. QB Jordan La Secla had a breakout game. He threw for 269 yards with a TD and an INT to lead the Spartans. On the other end, Terrance Cain completed 18 of his 31 attempts for 248 yards with a TD.

After a scoreless third quarter, the Utes finally broke through with a Terrance Cain pass to Jereme Brooks for a 51 yard TD reception. About four minutes later Eddie Wide extended Utah's lead 21-7 with a 15 yard run. Later, SJSU scored with a La Secla pass but it was too little too late for the Spartans.

In a game of terrible broadcasting and commentating, you couldn't help but feel you were watching a high school football game. Oh and add in terrible camera work for the tri-fecta.

Utah RB Matt Asiata was sidelined with an injury but it's a minor injury and should not affect him for next week's game. Second and third string running backs Eddie Wide and Sausan Shakerin showed a positive side for the Utes in a game that was negative in all sorts of ways. The Utah Utes execution needs work after 11 penalties for 69 yards. If RJ Stanford, Brandon Burton and the rest of the Utes play as they did today, the 16 game winning streak will end in Eugene.

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Ugly

This game was putting me to sleep until late in the 4th. The first drive was amazing, but Cain really needs to learn to run the read option better and take off with the ball himself for big runs.

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by Jeremy Mauss on Sep 13, 2009 7:37 AM PDT reply actions

for utah to win at eugene they have too....

have zero turnovers and cut down on the penalties. they are a 4 and 1/2 point dogs in the game. utah’s defense is slowly getting better so i expect oregon to only score 21-24 points. hopefully cain can get two td passes and we can run it in for 2 td’s. i want this streak to continue to 17 but utah has to play 95% to their potential. remember purdue let toledo score 31 and i know we have a much better defense than purdue. let’s squeek out a win for 3-0!

by wolfmanshowlforever on Sep 14, 2009 4:32 PM PDT reply actions