Postgame Notes: No. 12 Utah at No. 14 Oklahoma State
9/21/2024 7:22 PM | Football
Postgame Notes
No. 12 Utah 22, No. 14 Oklahoma State 19
Stillwater, Okla. (Boone Pickens Stadium)
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Kick: 3:05 p.m. CT | End: 6:41 p.m.
Attendance: 52,202 (sellout)
General
Offense
Defense
Special Teams
No. 12 Utah 22, No. 14 Oklahoma State 19
Stillwater, Okla. (Boone Pickens Stadium)
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Kick: 3:05 p.m. CT | End: 6:41 p.m.
Attendance: 52,202 (sellout)
General
- Utah is 4-0 on the season, reaching that mark for the second straight season and seventh in the Kyle Whittingham era (2008, '10, '15, '16, '17, '23, '24).
- The Utes picked up their first-ever win against Oklahoma State, evening the all-time series at 1-1.
- This represents Utah's first road win over a top-15 team since they won at No. 14 Stanford on Oct. 6, 2018.
- Utah won the coin toss and deferred to the second half. The Utes defended the West goal to begin the game.
- Today's game was the first since the 2023 Las Vegas Bowl that Utah was shutout in the first quarter. The last time it happened in a conference game for Utah was at Arizona on Nov. 18, 2023.
Offense
- True freshman quarterback Isaac Wilson made his second straight start. Wilson is the fourth quarterback in recorded program history to make multiple starts as a true freshman.
- Wilson became Utah's first true freshman starting quarterback in recorded program history to beat an AP-ranked team. Previously, true freshmen to start for Utah were 0-3 against AP-ranked teams.
- He is the second true freshman starter in Utah history to pass for 200-plus yards in his first two starts (Jordan Wynn in 2009).
- Wilson ran a career-long 48 yards down the sideline in the third quarter.
- Running back Micah Bernard set career-highs with 25 carries and 182 rushing yards. It gave Bernard his third-straight 100-yard rushing game this season and fifth of his career. Bernard is the first Ute with three straight 100-yard rushing games since Ty Jordan during the 2020 season.
- Bernard's rushing total was the most by a Ute in a game since Zack Moss on Nov. 23, 2019 at Arizona.
- Wide receiver Dorian Singer had seven catches for 95 yards and a long reception of 25 yards—all season-bests. His receptions and receiving yards were the highest total by a Ute receiver in 2024 in either statistic.
- Tight end Brant Kuithe lined up out of the wildcat early in the second quarter and rushed one-yard for his fifth career rushing touchdown. Kuithe's last was an 11-yard rushing touchdown at USC on Oct. 9, 2021.
- Utah's four successful fourth-down conversions are the most for the team since the game vs. Stanford on Nov. 12, 2022.
- Kuithe's 45-yard touchdown catch in the fourth quarter represented his longest reception of the season and also made him the first Ute to register a rushing and receiving score in the same game since Jaylen Dixon against Oregon State on Oct. 1, 2022.
- Kuithe's TD catch was also the 20th of his career, tying him with Carl Harry for third-most in program history and his 74 receiving yards push him past Dres Anderson and into sole possession of fifth place in school history in career yards through the air.
- Kuithe's 74 receiving yards are a new season-high for him in 2024 and he now has at least one reception in 36 straight games he has appeared in.
- Wide receiver Money Parks has caught a pass in 28 straight games.
Defense
- Nickel back Smith Snowden has defended five passes (4 PBU, 1 INT) in the last two games.
- Snowden earned his second PBU of the game during the second quarter and would later add a third; it's his first game as a Ute with multiple PBU.
- Safety Alaka'i Gilman came up with a third-down stop via an interception in the second quarter. It was Gilman's first interception as a Ute, and first since Oct. 13, 2023 at Colorado, while Gilman played for Stanford.
- Elijah Davis collected his second career interception in the fourth quarter, giving Utah multiple picks in consecutive games for the first time since 2022.
- Van Fillinger's fourth-quarter sack gives him at least one quarterback takedown in all four games in 2024, the longest such streak of his career and he's now matched his career-high of 5.5 sacks on the season.
- The Utes limited OSU to just 48 yards on the ground, the Cowboys' lowest total since Nov. 21, 2015.
Special Teams
- Kicker Cole Becker drilled a season-long 43-yard field goal early in the second quarter.
- Becker's three made field goals tie a career-high, the fourth time in his career he's reached that benchmark.
- Becker's 10 total points in Stillwater pushed him over the 100-point mark as a Ute and he ended the day with 106 in his Utah career.
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