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    "headline": "No. 2 Utah stays unbeaten as Devon Dampier’s 70-yard touchdown pass beats No. 23 Arizona 40-39 in Tucson",
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    "articleBody": "Utah trailed No. 23 Arizona 39-33 with less than three minutes left in Tucson on Saturday night. Two plays later the Utes were ahead for good: quarterback Devon Dampier hit Creed Whittemore for a 70-yard touchdown with 2:35 to play, and No. 2 Utah held on to win 40-39 and stay unbeaten. The win makes Utah 10-0 for only the third time in school history, according to the university’s athletics department, and keeps the Utes alone at the top of the Big 12 at 7-0. They are one of just two FBS teams without a loss this season. A game that changed hands seven times The official scoring summary reads like a tennis rally. Arizona led 7-0 and 14-3 in the first half before Dampier ran for two touchdowns, from 14 and 18 yards, to put Utah up 17-14 at halftime. Then the lead flipped back and forth: Arizona 21-17, on a Noah Fifita touchdown pass to Isaiah Mizell. Utah 24-21, on Dampier’s 4-yard throw to Byrd Ficklin. Arizona 28-24, after a 99-yard Wildcats drive capped by a Fifita pass to Giovanni Richardson. Utah 33-28, on a Dillon Curtis field goal and an 8-yard Daniel Bray run. Arizona 39-33, after a field goal and a 10-yard Fifita touchdown pass to Mizell with a successful two-point run. Utah 40-39, on the Dampier-to-Whittemore strike, which took just two plays and 38 seconds. Count Utah’s first lead at halftime and that is seven lead changes in one night. Utah’s defense then made it stand. Arizona managed minus-7 rushing yards in the fourth quarter, went 0 for 4 on third down in that period, and saw its final possession end when safety Jackson Bennee broke up a pass on fourth-and-2. The numbers behind the comeback Dampier did a bit of everything. He ran for exactly 100 yards and two scores and completed 13 of 25 passes for 204 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. Whittemore finished with five catches for 92 yards, both career highs. The bigger surprise came from running back Daniel Bray, who ran for 197 yards, a career high and the most by a Utah player since Zack Moss’s 203 against the same opponent in November 2019. Utah ran for 296 yards as a team against an Arizona defense that came in allowing about 126 rushing yards a game, more than double that average. In total, the Utes put up 500 yards to Arizona’s 415. What is left for Utah Three games stand between Utah and an unbeaten regular season plus a conference title. The Utes visit TCU in Fort Worth, Texas, on Saturday, November 21, host West Virginia at Rice-Eccles Stadium on Friday, November 27, at 7 p.m. Mountain, and the Big 12 Championship Game is set for December 4 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Elsewhere in college football this weekend, No. 6 Texas needed its own last-second touchdown to win at LSU, and a famous former quarterback just took a coaching job: read how Philip Rivers signed a five-year deal to coach NC State. Kurt Warner’s push to get his son a pro chance is covered in our story on E.J. Warner and the NFL, and more results are on the Badiyaa sports page. Image: Wcarlisle4, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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