Redshirt freshman QB Nate Johnson will start for the Utes Saturday afternoon against the Bruins.
SALT LAKE CITY — If the University of Utah is going to open Pac-12-play with a win on Saturday afternoon, it's going to happen without Cam Rising as its starting quarterback.
Optimism had grown over the course of the week that Rising would make his season-debut Saturday, but Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham threw some cold water on that, saying that they would not know if Rising could go until Thursday. It is unclear if Rising ever received final clearance from medical personnel to play Saturday.
Rising tore his left ACL early in the third quarter of the Rose Bowl on Jan. 2. At that point, the sixth-year senior was already playing with an unrelated, unspecified injury in the same knee suffered during a 43-42 come-from-behind win over USC at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Rising rehabbed himself to the point of being a limited participant as fall camp began, but that limited tag remained until he received green-light, no-limitation clearance for practice on the eve of the opener. At that point, it was too late to get Rising on-boarded to face the Gators, but his return at some point this month felt imminent.
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