What is your most memorable play in Utah football history?

[ProudUte]

My top 3:

1.  In the 1978 BYU game, we trailed 22-17 late in the 4th.  We got inside the ten and made some mistakes.  We had 4th and 19 when Randy Gomez hit Henry for the game-winning TD.

2. In 1994, Utah and Colorado State were undefeated and highly ranked.  We led 35-28 late in the game.  CSU had a great drive that took them into the red-zone.  Lusk intercepted a pass and took it back 100 yards for the TD.  Utah won 42-28.

3. In 1972, Utah entered the 4th quarter down to Arizona – 27-0.  Utah scored a couple of quick TDs to make it 27-14.  However, Arizona got a good drive going and started taking time off the clock.  There was about 5 minutes left in the game, when Steve Marshall intercepted a pass and took it back for a TD.  We scored again with 5 seconds left and won 28-27.  I almost left that game at the beginning of the 4th because I was disgusted with how we had played up until then.  I am glad that I stayed.

What are your most memorable plays?

 

[dystopiamembrane]

Most of my memories involve the BYU QB scrambling around for an eternity and then throwing a bomb into the endzone to beat us.

[ALUF]

1) the 2014 and 2016 usc games. Both of them seemed to end in the same way
2) 2008 TCU game. First time rushing the field, that last drive was amazing, the double missed field goals, crazy game
3) 2015 Michigan game. Great atmosphere with a ton of their fans at the game. I just remember the pick 6 from Thomas and everyone going nuts

[dystopiamembrane]

Agreed on 2). I wasn’t at the game, but my girl and I both swear that we felt our Portland roof top bar shaking as y’all went wild.

[cj13]

Earliest game I remember was 2007 vs BYU 😂. I am blessed that the program has been great during my time here.

[RedUte14]

That was the first game I ever watched. I was 10.

[SalUteopia]

My 3 most memorable from the recent past (with links): Rising 2-pt conversion vs USC, Covey punt return vs UO, Anae tackle vs Stanford.

[utefansince79]

For me no play will ever top Yorgensen’s 54-yard FG in 1993 to give us our first win in Provo in a couple decades.  The complexion of the rivalry turned that afternoon.

Another good one was Ben Moa’s jump pass (to Madsen I believe) out of the wildcat formation in the 3rd OT on a 2pt conversion to beat Air Force just a few days after Fred Whittingham had passed away.

Another one (also against Air Force) was Kevin Dyson catching a long pass on a fly pattern to complete a late comeback in Rice-Eccles when most of the crowd had left.   Those of us left were bear hugging each other.

[ProudUte]

I like these.

[ProudUte]

Good ones.

[UtesRule]

I was only 1 year old for that 1972 game, but if memory serves me from the stories my Mom and Dad have told me about that game, it snowed like crazy in the first half. My Mom looked at my Dad at halftime and said “you have no intention of leaving this game early, do you?” To which my Dad said, nope. She walked home to her parents house (on about 900 East and Princeton Ave). My Dad never left a game early after that.

I remember a Utah Air Force game where Utah scored 3 TD’s late in the 4th with Steve Smith for a very improbable come from behind win. Therefore, I don’t leave games early either (only exception was the 2004 UNLV game, with Utah crushing them at halftime in a torrential downpour in 40 degree temps…I was soaked to the bone and the outcome was absolutely not in question).

Another very memorable game from my youth was a cold rainy late October home game against UTEP where a gal jumped up on the turf, took of her trench coat, ran buck naked out to midfield and laid her buck naked body on the logo.

Go Utes!

[belli1976]

When the MUSS gave BYU three attempts at a game winning field goal. Fortunately, the BYU kicker sucked.

I was sitting on the 10 yard opposite of the MUSS. I started wondering if my Finance degree would still have value.

[ProudUte]

That was a terrible memory.  I thought that game would never end.

[belli1976]

The question was not best, but most.

[GameForAnyFuss]

Oddly enough…

…my most memorable play was when QB Brett Ratliff failed on the 2-point conversion at the end of the game against Texas A&M in 2003. We lost the game and Ratliff broke his wrist on the play.

Why is that play so memorable for me? Because the next game he was replaced by a little-known backup named Alex Smith. The rest is history.

That one play set off a chain of events that ended up with Utah in the PAC12.

[Sir Potsdam]

Brett Elliott. Ratliff replaced an injured Brian Johnson.

[PhiladelphiaUte]

Brett Elliott was replaced by Alex Smith in the 2003 game, at Texas A&M.  He subsequently transferred to Linfield before the 2004 season.

Brett Ratliff didn’t arrive in Salt Lake City until 2005.

[GameForAnyFuss]

Aah, my bad. Brett Elliott, not Brett Ratliff. Thanks for the correction.

[highlandute7]

Don’t remember the year but it was Errol Tucker. Running back a punt or kickoff for a td in the snow against BYU.  I must have been in early elementary school. 

[ProudUte]

Yes, that was a great one.  Unfortunately, we lost the game.  I think it may have been 1987.

[PlainsUte]

Looked him up, Tucker was drafted in 1986, so could have been 1985?

[Extra Medium]

1) Vegas bowl vs BYU the entire first quarter. It was the most glorious 15 of football I’ve ever seen!
2) Covey punt return right before half time vs Oregon last year
3) Blocked field goal returned for a TD vs Minnesota in 1990 to win the game. Same night BYU beat Miami in Provo.

[EagleMountainUte]

I love how Milton literally did a single video upload of the first quarter. Literally nothing else was necessary from that game.

[Milton Vanderslice]

Yeah, that guy is awesome.  He should go back to making clips again.

[PlainsUte]

Really, the best quarter of football for the Utes in my opinion was the 1st Quarter of the Sugar Bowl vs Alabama.  Utes punched the Tide in face on the first drive and just continued scoring, unabated, it seemed.  21-0 after Q1.

[tarheelute]

Beating BYU never far from my mind, sorry, but 40 unanswered points in the 2nd half, a fumble return of 57 yards for a TD, Utah wins 54–10.

Very satisfying. Covey’s punt return against Oregon hard to pick over. You had to be there.

[RedRocks]

For how much Ute fans seem to want to move past playing BYU, there sure are a lot of BYU memories on here…

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