Posted at 5:51 p.m., Thursday, October 18, 2007
CFB: Mack helps Utah run by TCU, 27-20
By Stephen Hawkins
Associated Press
Mack's fourth straight 100-yard game — on 32 carries — and Johnson's return coincide with the winning streak that has kept the Utes (5-3, 2-2 Mountain West) on the fringe of contending for the conference title.
Johnson, who missed three games after separating his shoulder in the season opener, completed 13 of 20 passes for 120 yards and a touchdown. His only interception didn't hurt the Utes.
Mack and Johnson accounted for all but seven of Utah's 227 total yards.
TCU (4-4, 1-3), with three 11-win seasons the past four years, already has three losses to teams ahead of the Horned Frogs in the Mountain West standings.
Chris Manfredini kicked a 41-yard field goal for TCU with 2:07 left and the Frogs thought they had the ball back when David Hawthorne recovered an onside kick. But officials ruled Hawthorne touched the ball before it went 10 yards, and confirmed that after a lengthy replay review.
TCU's Andy Dalton, the redshirt quarterback who won the starting job in preseason drills, was 20-of-45 for 159 yards with four interceptions. He had been picked off only four times the first six games and was coming off a 344-yard game in a win at Stanford.
