Nevada upsets Purdue & Utah State snatches defeat from the jaws of victory

[Bronco754]

With a 56 yard field goal from a then walk-on backup field goal kicker, as time ran out in last night's game, Nevada upset Purdue. In fact Nevada was down 24-7 at halftime but came back and outscored Purdue 27 to 7 in the 2nd half including the last second 56 yard field goal by the walk-on backup placekicker. That walk-on field goal kicker was awarded a scholarship in the post game celebration by Nevada's head coach.

Meanwhile Utah State seemed to have their game last night vs Wake Forest in hand but then Utah State apparently decided to simply give away the game to Wake Forest. Total meltdown by Utah State. After taking the lead with just under 14 minutes left in the game at 35-31 Utah State gave up a 70 yard pass play that was initially ruled a touchdown but after review was spotted at at Nevada 1 yard line with 2:19 left in the game. After stopping 3 straight runs at the 1 and 2 yard line Nevada gave up the go-ahead touchdown via a 2 yard pass with 1:08 left in the game. Then when Nevada had moved the ball on the following possession from their own 25 yard line to the Wake Forest 31 yard line with 23 seconds on the clock Utah State's QB threw a ridiculous pass that was intercepted by Wake Forest's Justin Strnad with 18 seconds left on the clock.

 

[Bronco754]

Oh and Colorado State lost (again) to Colorado. That's five straight wins for Colorado vs. Colorado State. Last time CSU won vs. Colorado was back in 2014.

Colorado State was trailing by only 3 points at halftime this year vs. Colorado but Colorado outscored CSU 28-14 in the 2nd half to win it handily by a score of 52-31.

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

Utah State honestly embarrasses this conference, they always have these games against mediocre P5 teams they should win and they always choke the game away late

 

[Bronco754]

To be honest tho just about every team in the MWC does the same thing against non PAC 12 teams. MWC does well against the PAC 12 teams (lately) but other so-called Power 5 teams not so much.

I watched nearly all of that Utah State game last night and I hate to say it as it pertains to a former BSU quarterback but their offensive coordinator just plain SUCKS. Extremely predictable and unoriginal play calling from Sanford last night.