By Daniel Dullum
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Utah claimed its most significant football victory since joining the Pac-12 Conference three years ago, upsetting No. 5 Stanford 27-21, snapping the Cardinal’s 13-game undefeated streak.

It was the first time in Utes history that they defeated a top-five team at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City. The Utes (4-2 overall, 1-2 Pac-12) upended No. 4 Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl.

Devon Cajuste snared a touchdown pass from Kevin Hogan with 9:22 left in the fourth quarter, pulling the Cardinal to within 27-21. But Stanford was unable to complete the comback.

With one minute remaining in the game, Hogan led the Cardinal (5-1, 3-1) down to the Utah 6-yard-line. Hogan threw an incomplete pass on third down, and overthrew Cajuste on fourth down. From there, it took a couple of kneel downs for Utah to run out the clock.

Utah quarterback Travis Wilson threw a pair of touchdown passes while completing 23 of 34 passes for 234 yards.

Dres Anderson scored twice for the Utes. He caught a 51-yard TD pass from Wilson and scored again on a 3-yard run. Bubba Poole led the Utes with 111 rushing yards while catching seven passes for 75 yards.

Karl Williams snared a 4-yard TD pass from Wilson on Utah’s opening drive.

Ty Montgomery returned a kickoff 100 yards for one of the Stanford touchdowns.

The Cardinal return home next Saturday to host UCLA. Kickoff is at 3:30 p.m.

(subject Stanford football)

(TAGS: Stanford,football,Pac-12,Utah)