Upcoming Event: Track & Field versus NCAA First Round on May 28, 2026
Track & Field
vs NCAA First Round
The University of Utah Athletics
In-Game Notes at Arizona
General
Defense
Special Teams
- Arizona took a 14-7 lead with 1:41 to play in the first quarter, marking the first deficit faced by Utah in the first half since Oct. 16 vs. Arizona State (21-7).
- Utah won the coin toss and elected to receive. Arizona elected to defend the North goal.
- Through the first half, Utah now owns 23 scoring drives of 70-plus yards this season. Including today, 18 of those drives have come since the USC game on Oct. 9.
- Junior wide receiver Britain Covey caught a 29-yard pass, his longest of the season. It also tied Covey for fifth in Utah history in career all-purpose yards (3,526) alongside Bryan Rowley (1989-93).
- Junior running back TJ Pledger has his first multi-rushing-touchdown game as a Ute (15, 2). Of Pledger's five rushing scores this season, three have been from 15-plus yards out (20, 7, 96, 15).
- Pledger also took a screen pass for a career-long 43 yards during the third quarter.
- Freshman running back Micah Bernard manged to reel in a 27-yard reception on Utah's first series of the game, Bernard's second-longest reception as a Ute.
- Bernard now has eight receptions this season of 10-plus yards.
- With sophomore quarterback Cameron Rising's 11-yard scamper for a touchdown, Utah has punched it into the end zone in five straight games (beginning with Arizona State).
- Rising has passed for multiple touchdowns in five games this season, and for the first time since Oregon State (Oct. 23).
- Rising has both rushed and passed for a touchdown for the fourth time this season--the first Utes QB since Tyler Huntley in 2019 with as many performances.
- Junior tight end Dalton Kincaid (17 yards) tied his longest touchdown reception as a Ute. Kincaid's career-long score was on a 70-yard touchdown in 2019 while at San Diego.
- Rising was sacked during the second quarter, ending an FBS-leading streak of 151 consecutive pass attempts without a sack since the game at USC on Oct. 9.
- Utah's drive starting at the 10:34 mark of the fourth quarter is the longest by the Utes this season, passing a 7:37 drive at Oregon State.
Defense
- Freshman safety Cole Bishop reset his career-high in total tackles, previously five at Stanford on Nov. 5.
- Bishop has 3.0 TFLs for 17 yards as of the 11:31 mark of the fourth quarter. All of Bishop's TFLs have come in the last two games, after not recording any in his first four games as a Ute.
- In that same theme, Bishop had both a sack and pass breakup for the second straight game, during which both of Bishop's sacks and PBUs as a Ute have come.
- Sophomore Malone Matele returned to game action after missing the last three games.
Special Teams
- Sophomore Jadon Redding connected on a 30-yard field goal during the third quarter. It is the second straight game that Redding has attempted and made a field goal.