The term “A tale of two halves” is often thrown around loosely in sports. One team plays a good first half, and comes out flat in the second, and vice versa.
On Saturday night in Salt Lake City, the cliche was personified in the most profound of forms. Arizona State took a 14-point lead into the locker room at halftime, and may as well have not come back out.
Utah (4-2, 3-0 Pac-12) dominated the second half in every sense of the word, putting together five methodical, easy, and backbreaking touchdown drives while shutting out ASU (5-2, 2-1) en route to a 35-21 victory at Rice Eccles stadium.