COLLEGE FOOTBALL : WESTERN ATHLETIC ROUNDUP : Utah and Wyoming Save Their Best for Last
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It was truly a wild and wacky day for WAC teams Saturday.
Besides Brigham Young’s 58-56 loss to Utah State, Utah scored with nine seconds left to upset San Diego State, 45-41, and Wyoming scored with 20 seconds left to defeat Fresno State, 32-28, in Western Athletic Conference games.
Utah’s winning touchdown at Salt Lake City came on a 17-yard pass play from Mike McCoy to Greg Hooks, which capped a six-play, 58-yard drive that consumed only 47 seconds.
The lead changed six times in the fourth quarter.
For Utah, 5-4 overall and 3-2 in the WAC, McCoy passed for three touchdowns, while Jamal Anderson ran for three. Marshall Faulk ran for 141 yards for the Aztecs (6-3, 4-1).
Wyoming 32, Fresno State 28--Mike Jones caught a seven-yard touchdown pass to give Wyoming (7-0, 5-0) the victory over the Bulldogs (5-3, 3-2) at Laramie, Wyo.
In other WAC games, Paul Turner scored on a 20-yard pass play with 5:22 left to give Colorado State (3-6, 3-3) a 21-20 victory over New Mexico (3-5, 2-4) at Ft. Collins, Colo., and Air Force (3-6, 1-5) beat Texas El Paso (1-7, 0-4), 31-10, at Colorado Springs, Colo.
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