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by JazzyUte on Oct 15, 2009 3:50 AM MDT
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Instead of talking about the UNLV game Saturday, I thought I'd just post this because I think it really sums up what's on the line in this game.
It's really amazing how far the program has come since 9/22/07. Or as I'd like to call it: The Day of Infamy.
Frank Summers rushed for 190 yards and scored three touchdowns to lead UNLV to a 27-0 upset victory over Utah as the Rebels stopped an 11-game losing streak to the Utes.Summers, who had 29 carries and 108 yards in the first half, caught his only pass of the game for a 29-yard touchdown with 14:51 left in the first half, giving UNLV (2-2, 1-0 Mountain West) a 10-0 lead.
Utah (1-3, 0-2) was coming off an impressive 44-6 win over then-No. 11 UCLA a week earlier.
The 11-game streak dated back to Oct. 20, 1979 when the Rebels beat Utah in Las Vegas in the teams' first-ever meeting.
It was the first time Utah was shut out since a 38-0 loss to Arizona State in 1993. It was UNLVs first shutout since 2000 against North Texas. That score was also 38-0.
Summers' second touchdown, a 4-yard run with 12:52 left in the game, gave the Rebels a 20-0 lead. His last touchdown came from 36 yards down the right sideline with 1:52 remaining. Summers' previous career high in rushing was just 43 yards in a Sept. 15 loss to Hawaii.
Utah quarterback Brian Johnson, who separated his shoulder in the first game of the season in a 24-7 loss at Oregon State, did not play in the first half, but started the second. Johnson went 12-of-19 for 78 yards.
Utes starting quarterback Tommy Grady finished 11-of-21 for 117 yards with an interception. Darrell Mack added 89 yards rushing on 21 carries.
UNLV quarterback Travis Dixon was 12-of-27 for 144 yards with two interceptions.
Utah was 1-of-5 on fourth-down attempts, including an attempt from the 1-yard line with 7:43 left in the third quarter. The Utes also fumbled three times.
The Rebels built a 13-0 lead at halftime. Sergio Aguayo hit two of three field-goal attempts, one from 28-yards, and the other from 20 yards.
In the first half, UNLV running back David Peeples was carted off after an injury with 1:27 left in the first quarter when he was hit by Stevenson Sylvester.
Peeples lost consciousness, but regained it while being taken off the field. He was taken to a nearby hospital and was undergoing tests and X-rays during the game.
Truly a nightmare. The program has grown so much since that game (they've gone 25-2) and I think it just proves the saying that you need to hit rock bottom before finding yourself.
Certainly what Utah did in that game constitutes as rock bottom. Wouldn't you agree?
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We got shut out by a team
led by Travis freakin Dixon.
We have to win Saturday and exorcise those demons.
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by BoylenOver on Oct 15, 2009 3:53 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs
Even with how banged up Utah was...
I still can’t make sense of that game.
Tommy Grady was really bad. How he led this team to a victory over UCLA I will never know.
We couldn’t even freaking score a FG.
Biggest fluke game in college football history, I think. I really mean that. But it was also the biggest wake up call.
by JazzyUte on Oct 15, 2009 12:11 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs
We could have scored a FG.
Early in the game KW tried to punch it in (twice, actually) on 4th down rather than settling for the FG. One was a fumble, one was a failed 4th-down conversion. I think if we’d put the points on the board instead of going for it we probably would have won the game because we would have settled down and quit trying so hard. But that shutout kept getting scarier and scarier and everyone played tighter and tighter as the game went on.
I lost faith in KW after that game. I didn’t really get it back until the TCU game last year.
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by displacedute on Oct 15, 2009 12:42 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs
I remember that now...
Whittingham panicked and went for it.
I gained faith back in Whittingham faster than you. I think it was around the TCU game that year where I felt he got it and would get it in the future. Not full faith, mind you. But I felt confident enough to think we had things going in the right direction.
Of course, I did talk about my skepticism prior to the 2008 season and how discussed how important it was for Whittingham he gained a conference championship.
by JazzyUte on Oct 15, 2009 1:02 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs
UNLV
Could be 1-6 or 4-2 the way their games have gone, two of their losses were close ones, as was one of their wins. They could have defeated both Oregon State and Wyoming (both 3 point losses).
They’ve had two abyssmal weeks, which team shows up Saturday?
by MeanBobMean on Oct 15, 2009 1:19 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs
I look at it a bit differently.
Surely those games earlier in the season were close because UNLV actually had confidence.
Whatever confidence they’ve had, though, is lost.
If you remember the final year of Giacoletti’s career here, the Utes were very competitive in early-season losses. Then once they started piling up, the losses continues, but by wider margins.
That happens so often in sports. You have confidence at the start of the year, but a few close losses diminishes it. Add blowout losses and things start going south fast.
Oregon State and Wyoming were the starting point. Nevada and BYU were the start of the tipping point.
I think they’re done. Confidence is shot and I don’t expect the team that took Oregon State to the wire.
by JazzyUte on Oct 15, 2009 1:44 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs
if i remember correctly frank summers talked alot of smack after that game
he said he sliced and diced the utah team like he would the unlv scout team. ouch. payback and karma is a bitch. yes, unlv has given up and i expect utah to put up 45 points in this game. this will be our offensive breakout game. interesting tidbit about the ucla game that year. utah won by 38 points in that game. the point spread was +16 and 1/2 to utah. if you add the points we scored and the points ucla was supposed to beat us by you get 54 and 1/2 points. can anybody find a game in the last twenty + years that a game has had that much of a difference. don’t say stanford beating usc and receiving 42 and 1/2 points. they only won that game by one point. i’m not saying there is not one game out there but i can’t find it. peace.
by wolfmanshowlforever on Oct 15, 2009 3:30 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs
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