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Postgame Notes: Utah vs. No. 22 Iowa State
11/23/2024 10:06 PM | Football
Postgame Notes
No. 22 Iowa State 31, Utah 28
Salt Lake City, Utah (Rice-Eccles Stadium)
Saturday, November 23, 2024
Kick: 5:35 p.m. MT | End: 8:47 p.m.
Attendance: 52,152 (sellout)
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Offense
Defense
Special Teams
No. 22 Iowa State 31, Utah 28
Salt Lake City, Utah (Rice-Eccles Stadium)
Saturday, November 23, 2024
Kick: 5:35 p.m. MT | End: 8:47 p.m.
Attendance: 52,152 (sellout)
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General
- Tonight's attendance of 52,152 was the 89th consecutive sellout of Rice-Eccles Stadium, dating back to the 2010 season opener vs. Pitt.
- Utah is the first FBS team this season to have both a blocked punt return touchdown and a blocked field goal return touchdown. Last season, only Arizona did it at the FBS level. (via Matt Ensor / Stats Pass).
- With the home schedule now wrapped up, the Utes averaged 52,962 fans in Rice-Eccles Stadium throughout the season; it's a new facility record surpassing the 2023 average of 52,499.
- Utah won the coin toss and deferred to the second half. The Utes defended the North end zone to begin the game.
Offense
- True freshman quarterback Isaac Wilson made his seventh start of the season; it ties Travis Wilson (during the 2012 season) for the most by a true freshman in recorded Utah history.
- Wilson completed all eight of his pass attempts; it is the longest streak for Wilson to begin a game this season, surpassing the Arizona game when he completed his first seven passes that night.
- Utah's very first offensive play was a 46-yard completion from Wilson to wide receiver Daidren Zipperer. It was a career-long reception for Zipperer, and the longest game-opening play by the Utes since a 70-yard touchdown pass in the 2023 season opener vs. Florida (Bryson Barnes to Money Parks).
- Quarterback Luke Bottari came on in relief of Wilson late in the third quarter; Bottari was 5-of-9 passing for 55 yards and rushed four times for 47 yards. Bottari's night included a career-long 40-yard keeper that put Utah into the red-zone midway through the fourth quarter.
- Wilson (2) and Bottari (1) combined for three chunk completions (gains of 15-plus yards); altogether those three completions gave the Utes 79 yards.
- Zipperer set career-bests with four receptions, 66 receiving yards and his long reception of 46 yards.
- Fellow wideout Zacharyus Williams set a new career-best with three catches in the game after entering the night with one as a Ute.
- Wide receiver Dorian Singer reached 50 catches for the season with his six-yard reception in the second quarter. His career-high is 66 during the 2022 season, when Singer played at Arizona.
- Offensive lineman Keith Olson (LG), Williams and Zipperer each made their first starts as a Ute.
Defense
- As a team, the Utes had 10 pass breakups on the night; it tied the most for the squad since the game at USC on Oct. 9, 2021.
- Linebacker Lander Barton made an 87-yard pick-six during the second quarter; it extends Utah's FBS-leading active streak to 21 consecutive seasons with a pick-six. It is the longest streak in recorded NCAA history. It is also Barton's second career pick-six (the other was vs. Weber State in 2023).
- The 87-yard return by Barton was the longest by a Utah linebacker in history, longest by a Ute since 2018 (Jaylon Johnson, 100 vs. Stanford) and ninth-longest in Utah history.
- Including Barton tonight, the Utes have 46 interception return touchdowns since the streak began in the 2004 season. It broke the tie with Alabama (45) for the most in FBS during that time.
- Cornerback Cameron Calhoun and defensive tackle Junior Tafuna each had three pass breakups, tying Smith Snowden (at Oklahoma State) for the most by a Ute this season. Both PBU totals were career-highs for Calhoun and Tafuna.
- The last time that Utes had two players with three passes defended (combined PBU and interceptions) was at Michigan in 2014, when Eric Rowe had three PBU and Brian Blechen had an interception plus two PBU.
- Strictly talking about PBU, the last time multiple Utes had three-plus breakups in a game was vs. New Mexico in 2007, when Brice McCain and Sean Smith had four each.
- Safety Rabbit Evans led the Utes with a career-high 12 tackles on the night; it matched Iowa State's Malik Verdon for the most by a player in the game.
- Evans' 12 takedowns tied the performance at Houston by Lander Barton for the most tackles by a Ute this season. It surpassed Evans' prior career-best of nine tackles in the game this season at Arizona State.
- Nickel back Smith Snowden tied his career-high with six tackles.
- Defensive tackle Aliki Vimahi set new career-bests with five tackles and 1.5 TFL.
- Linebacker Karene Reid tied his season-high with eight tackles; previously Reid had that total vs. TCU and BYU.
- Defensive end Logan Fano tied a career-high with 1.5 TFL. He now has three straight games with at least 1.0 TFL and passed his career-best TFL for a season. Fano now has 5.5 TFL this season after amassing 4.0 in 2023.
- Linebacker Johnathan Hall (1.5 TFL) now has 3.5 of his team-leading 9.0 TFL in the last two games. It's the most in a season by a Utah linebacker since 2022, when Mohamoud Diabate finished the season with 13.5 TFL and Karene Reid had 9.5 TFL.
- Fellow defensive end Connor O'Toole (6 tackles, 1.0 TFL) eclipsed 100 career tackles as a Ute and reached the 15 TFL mark.
- Cornerback Zemaiah Vaughn made his 30th consecutive start.
- Vimahi made his first start of the season.
- Utah forced a three-and-out on Iowa State's game-opening drive; it's the 10th time this season and sixth game in a row that Utah's opponent has been held scoreless on their game-opening drive.
Special Teams
- Playing as part of the punt return team, Jackson Bennee blocked an Iowa State punt early in the fourth quarter; it was Bennee's first block. The ball dribbled on the ground into the end zone where David Washington covered it up for a touchdown. It was the first blocked punt touchdown by Utah since the game at Wyoming in 2008, when Aiona Key both blocked a punt and recovered it for a touchdown.
- On a muffed punt in the second quarter, long snapper JT Greep came up with a fumble recovery. It was Greep's second career fumble recovery; the other came at Washington State in 2022 on a similar play.
- Cole Becker had field goals made of 34 and 47 yards; Becker now has five games this season with multiple field goals made.
- Punter Jack Bouwmeester has dropped multiple punts inside the 20-yard line in five straight games, the longest streak of his career. Altogether this season, he has done so in eight games, a season-high.
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