Highlights, key plays and photos from No. 11 Utah’s win over Baylor

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End of Game

Utah 23, Baylor 12

Utah’s big first-half lead was enough for the Utes to fend off Baylor, though the biggest storyline centered around Cam Rising leaving with an apparent right hand injury late in the first half.

Following Rising’s exit, the Utes were outscored 12-0 as Utah’s offensive failed to sustain much under true freshman Isaac Wilson, who was thrust into a difficult situation to start for the second straight game.

Still, two quick first-quarter touchdowns, a Cole Becker field goal and a blocked field goal returned 77 yards for a touchdown by Tao Johnson in the second gave the Utes more than enough cushion against a Baylor team that struggled much of the day to move the ball.

Rising completed 8 of 14 passes for 92 yards and two touchdowns before leaving the game, while adding two carries for 21 yards.

Micah Bernard rushed for 118 yards and had a receiving touchdown while Money Parks added three catches for 80 yards and a score.

Defensively, Connor O’Toole had seven tackles and two sacks for the Utes.

Fourth quarter

Utah 23, Baylor 12

1:37 — The Utes came up with a stop on fourth down, and with Baylor only having only timeout left, this one is all but over.

3:40 — Cole Becker missed his second field goal of the day, misfiring wide right on a 43-yard attempt after a 65-yard drive.

There isn’t much time left for Baylor to rally, but the miss at least keeps the door a little bit open.

Third quarter

Utah 23, Baylor 12

0:53 — Things just got more interesting.

Baylor capped a 70-yard scoring drive with a 47-yard touchdown pass to Josh Cameron, making this a two-score game again late in the third quarter. The Bears missed on a two-point conversion, though, keeping it an 11-point deficit. Utah 23, Baylor 12.

Cameron took a short pass from Dequan Finn, then raced across the field before getting into the clear, evading a handful of Ute defenders and scoring the long touchdown.

Finn converted a fourth-and-2 with his legs on the play prior to the touchdown pass.

6:23 — Baylor added another field goal, this one a 39-yarder from Isaiah Hankins, to cut into the Utah lead. Utah 23, Baylor 6.

Baylor quarterback Dequan Finn converted a third-and-9 with a QB keeper up the middle to the Utah 22 to keep the drive alive, but three plays later Van Fillinger stopped Finn for a 2-yard loss on third down, leading to the field goal.

Utah is playing Isaac Wilson in the second half, with Cam Rising on the sideline after appearing to injure his hand late in the first half.

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Second quarter

Utah 23, Baylor 3

0:00 — Baylor added a 44-yard field goal from Isaiah Hankins on the half’s final play to get its first score of the game. Utah 23, Baylor 3.

This came after Cole Becker missed a 45-yard field goal attempt on the previous possession.

A targeting call on Utah’s Alaka’i Gilman got Baylor in position to kick the field goal, and he’s out for the game.

The big storyline to follow right now is what happened with Cam Rising, who left the field after taking a hit and being pushed out of bounds with under two minutes to play.

He was replaced by Isaac Wilson, who completed 1 of 3 passes for 3 yards and had one carry for 1 yard after taking over for Rising on Utah’s final drive of the first half.

1:47 — Interesting development here: Cam Rising appeared to hurt his hand on a play where he was hit near the sideline, and Isaac Wilson is in at quarterback. Rising, meanwhile, headed to the locker room.

5:21 — Utah just created some history with a special teams touchdown.

Tao Johnson returned a blocked field goal 77 yards for a touchdown — the block was credited to Logan Fano, while Caleb Lohner got high up the middle and Van Fillinger also got penetration through the middle of the line.

Funny enough, the extra point was missed in a funny set of back-to-back special teams misses. Utah 23, Baylor 0.

That is the first blocked field goal for a touchdown for the Utes since Nov. 6, 1999, when Jay Hill — the former Ute assistant and now BYU’s defensive coordinator — returned a block 58 yards against Wyoming.

9:27 — Mike Mitchell just had to be helped off the field after going down on a carry. That’s an injury situation to monitor with the running back by committee approach the Utes have been using.

End of first quarter

A couple notes from through one quarter:

• Baylor had negative yards on offense through the first 15 minutes, with minus-10 yards. The Bears had minus-15 rushing yards, to 5 passing yards.
• Cam Rising’s 25-yard run on Utah’s final possession of the first quarter pushed him over the 1,000-yard career rushing mark. He’s the fourth quarterback in Utah program history to reach that milestone, along with Alex Smith, Travis Wilson and Tyler Huntley.

First quarter

Utah 17, Baylor 0

0:48 — Utah tacked on three more points with a 30-yard Cole Becker field goal. Utah 17, Baylor 0.

The 10-play, 74-yard scoring drive included a 25-yard Cam Rising keeper and a 35-yard pass to Money Parks to get the Utes in scoring position.

8:17 — That escalated quickly.

Just 20 seconds after its opening score, Utah capitalized on a Baylor turnover for a second straight touchdown.

This time, it was a short 2-yard pass from Cam Rising to Micah Bernard for the score after a Bears fumble gave Utah possession at the Baylor 3 to start the drive. Utah 14, Baylor 0.

That was set up by strip sack from Connor O’Toole, with Karene Reid on the fumble recovery.

8:37 — Utah went into its bag of tricks to open up the scoring.

Money Parks caught the ball from Cam Rising on an end around pass behind the line, then Parks faked a toss to Dijon Stanley, who ran in from the other side of the formation, and Parks kept the ball. He weaved his way up the visiting sideline and got an excellent block from Dorian Singer near the goal line to finish off the 28-yard score. Utah 7, Baylor 0.

Utah drove four plays in 56 yards for the touchdown and was aided by a 15-yard pass interference penalty on its second possession of the game.

How to watch the game

Utah’s game against Baylor will be televised on Fox.

The game will also be streamed at foxsports.com/live.

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