Utah Utes football rolled by TCU 47-7

TCU vs. Utah boxscore

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's "blackout" turned out to be a real knockout — for TCU. The battle between two of the top five teams in the Bowl Championship Series standings was a beat-down that never lived up to its billing and pregame hype.

The Horned Frogs hopped all over the Utes, 47-7, in a clash of unbeatens that carried hefty BCS and Mountain West Conference title implications.

"My bishop is probably not going to be happy but we got our (butts) kicked," Utah defensive end Christian Cox said before expressing his respect for TCU. "Every phase of the game they smoked us. It's disheartening. It's frustrating. We got killed."

Utah quarterback Jordan Wynn, who completed just 16-of-35 passes for 148 yards, turned the ball over three times — twice on interceptions and once on a fumble.

"They just beat us in all aspects," Wynn said. "They're a good team and they showed it today."

Utah coach Kyle Whittingham agreed.

"We were thoroughly out played in every phase of the game. It wasn't even close," he said. "It was one of those games where the score was not indicative of how lopsided it was."

The Frogs, he added, exposed a lot of the Utes' deficiencies.

"Credit to them. That's a great football team," Whittingham said. "They outcoached us. They outplayed us. Gary Patterson's got something special going there and we wish them well the rest of the way."

TCU, winners of 23 consecutive non-bowl games, wasted little time dashing Utah's hopes of a third BCS trip in seven years.

"Everybody understands what kind of team Utah has and for us to do it the way we did it today says a lot about what we've done as a program and what we do," Patterson said. "We wanted to be peaking at the end of the year and I think we have an opportunity to do that."

Led by a defense that didn't allow the Utes past the 50-yard line until the fourth quarter and an offense quarterbacked by Andy Dalton, the Frogs jumped out to a 23-0 lead midway through the second quarter.

By the time Ross Evans capped the early outburst with a 24-yard field goal, TCU had racked up exactly 300 yards of total offense. Utah had just 51.

Dalton, at the time, had completed 12 of his first 13 passes for 236 yards. He wound up going 21-of-26 for 355 yards and three touchdowns.