Analysis: Cam Rising took his team to the doorstep of not only a win in Florida, but to the cusp of making anything legitimately possible this fall for these Utes.
Analysis of No. 7 Utes loss to the Gators, 29-26, in a game that featured a late Cam Rising interception.
Richardson’s 2-yard keeper out of the shotgun on second-and-goal gave the ball back to Utah, trailing 29-26, with 1:25 left and two timeouts. Rising had a good night. He finished 22-for-32 for 216 yards and a first-quarter touchdown pass to Kuithe. His second half was markedly better than his first half, which featured some accuracy issues, specifically on the final drive before halftime as he missed a couple of open receivers as the offense came away with no points.
Utah coach Kyle Whittingham reacts after watching a replay on the stadium video monitor during the first half of the team's NCAA college football game against Florida, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, in Gainesville, Fla. Whittingham is 100% correct, there are no moral victories at this level of the sport. Given where his program has been lately, yes, Utah should be beyond any back-patting. They were the No. 7 team in the country, especially walking into The Swamp as a road-betting favorite. Painting yourself as David in a David vs. Goliath matchup doesn’t work once you win your conference and are favored to win it again.
Had Utah won this game, there still would have been a lot of hurdles to clear, but it would have cleared a major one. With the exception of USC’s Caleb Williams, the Utes are not going to see another quarterback with the tools that Richardson has, nor are they going to see this type of speed and athleticism all over the place.
Saturday was not a good day for the Pac-12. Utah, the league’s great CFP hope for 2022, lost, which came hours after a more unlikely CFP hope, Oregon, got its doors blown off by Georgia in Atlanta.
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