Cameron Rising, who missed the entire 2023 season due to a knee injury, threw five touchdown passes to lead No. 12 Utah to a 49-0 win over Southern Utah.
Rising, a seventh-year senior quarterback, shined in his first game action since tearing multiple knee ligaments in the Utes' Rose Bowl loss to Penn State on Jan. 2, 2023, going 10-of-15 for 254 yards and 25 rushing yards as the 84th consecutive sellout crowd at Rice-Eccles Stadium held its collective breath on each rush. He left the game in the second quarter with Utah up 35-0 after leading five consecutive scoring drives.
Kuithe, who also missed last season and most of the 2022 campaign, caught three touchdown passes -- all in the second quarter. He caught a 29-yard toss for a score on the first play of the quarter before an 18-yarder three minutes later. With 1:08 to play in the half, Kuithe fought off three defenders on his way into the end zone on an 11-yard grab.
"I hope we didn't do a disservice. We didn't cover anybody," Southern Utah coach DeLane Fitzgerald said."We didn't make the windows very tight. We didn't make him have to be very accurate on the throws,"
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