Spice It Up: Utah State Upsets Nevada
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Chaz Spicer make two free throws with 3.8 seconds left in overtime to give Utah State a 79-77 upset of No. 10 Nevada on Thursday night.
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Utah Head Coach Urban Meyer hollers to his team during the first half of a game against Utah State in this Sept. 18, 2004 file photo in Logan, Utah.
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Oklahoma moved up to No. 2 in the Bowl Championship Series standings Monday and Utah is now sixth, a position that would guarantee the Utes a spot in one of the four big-money bowl games if they can hold on to it.
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Colt Brennan has rewritten the NCAA record book with his arm. He used his legs against UNLV. Playing on a sore right ankle, Brennan ran for three touchdowns and threw for two more to lead 24th-ranked Hawaii to an easy 49-14 victory over UNLV on Saturday night.
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The smiles should be wider than the Wasatch Mountains this week at The Y., as they call Brigham Young University. The Cougars are coming off a triumph of Biblical proportion over Notre Dame, in
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Utah beat rival Brigham Young 52-21 Saturday, completing its first unbeaten season since 1930 and putting the Utes one step closer to the first appearance in the Bowl Championship Series for a team from a mid-major conference.
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Utah opens the season with a chance to show it belongs in the Top 25. With a No. 20 ranking in their first ever preseason poll appearance, the Utes play host to Texas A&amp;M on Thursday. A win solidifies their status as an emerging program; a loss relegates them to just another mediocre team from the West.
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UNLV has had more than its share of issues with the NCAA over the years, so it wasn't surprising there was some grumbling about town when a team hotter than the clubs on the glittering Las Vegas Strip managed only a No. 7 seed in the Midwest Regional.
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Kyle Shiloh scored all 16 of his points in the final 20 minutes and No. 11 Nevada opened the second half with a big run, pulling away from Northern Iowa in a 79-64 victory.
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Morgan Scalley returned the opening kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown and Alex Smith threw for three TDs and ran 70 yards for another, leading No. 9 Utah past UNLV 63-28 Saturday night.
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NO. 2 KANSAS 85, NEVADA 52: At Lawrence, Kan. - Wayne Simien had his third double-double in as many games and Kansas routed Nevada on Monday night, avenging an embarrassing loss of a year ago.
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Marcelus Kemp scored 21 of his 32 points in the second half and Nick Fazekas added 22 points and nine rebounds to lead No. 10 Nevada to a 69-65 victory over New Mexico State on Saturday night.
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Texas bumped Utah from the coveted No. 6 spot in the Bowl Championship Series standings released on Monday, improving its chance for its first major bowl in eight seasons.
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Playing with an intensity born of embarrassment last season, the No. 14 Utes turned New Mexico into a threadbare red carpet at University Stadium on Friday night, running over the Lobos
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By Dirk Facer Deseret Morning News  It took awhile -- one quarter, to be exact -- for Utah to shake off its rusty play in a 31-10 season-opening loss to UCLA.  In Saturday's home opener against Northern Arizona, the Utes got off to a sluggish start.
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By Devon Black For the Deseret Morning News  HEBER CITY -- Utah high schools dominated individually at the Intermountain Wrestling Duals on Saturday but lost the important matches and ended up settling for consolation prizes.
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Nevada's making a habit of rallying in the second half to win. The 25th-ranked Wolf Pack's shooting the first half was as cold as the Sierra snowstorm outside, but Marcelus Kemp scored 14 of his 19 points in the second half and helped spark an 18-2 run to beat Pacific 60-53 Saturday night.