No. 14 Utes make easy work of New Mexico

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Top 25 Overview

It was over when... Utah broke out in the third quarter with 21 unanswered points on three TDs to widen its lead, 38-7. Gameball goes to... Jordan Wynn. The freshman QB threw for 297 yards and 2 touchdowns in his first start for the Utes. Stat of the game... 122. Eddie Wide ran for 122 yards in the third quarter alone, marking his school-record sixth straight 100-yard game. Complete Top 25 Overview

Team Stat Comparison
1st Downs	15	28
Total Yards	334	557
Passing	252	306
Rushing	82	251
Penalties	9-81	4-34
3rd Down Conversions	5-18	8-15
4th Down Conversions	2-4	1-2
Turnovers	2	2
Possession	26:16	33:44

Air/Ground Leaders
New Mexico Passing   C/ATT YDS TD INT Porterie 15/32 186 1 2 Holbrook 6/10 66 1 0	Utah Passing   C/ATT YDS TD INT Wynn 18/28 297 2 1 Christopher 1/1 9 0 0
New Mexico Rushing   CAR YDS TD LG Carrier 11 54 0 16 Holbrook 5 21 0 8	Utah Rushing   CAR YDS TD LG Wide 20 145 2 35 Shakerin 16 100 1 26
New Mexico Receiving   REC YDS TD LG Kirk 4 82 1 59 Jones 3 35 0 15	Utah Receiving   REC YDS TD LG Brooks 6 135 1 69 Aasa 6 65 0 23

Scoring Summary
FIRST QUARTER				UNM	UTAH
	TD	05:52	Jereme Brooks 69 Yd Pass From Jordan Wynn (Joe Phillips Kick)	0	7
	TD	04:07	Ty Kirk 59 Yd Pass From Donovan Porterie (James Aho Kick)	7	7
SECOND QUARTER				UNM	UTAH
	TD	05:59	Eddie Wide 1 Yd Run (Joe Phillips Kick)	7	14
	FG	00:54	Joe Phillips 24 Yd	7	17
THIRD QUARTER				UNM	UTAH
	TD	12:44	Sausan Shakerin 20 Yd Pass From Jordan Wynn (Joe Phillips Kick)	7	24
	TD	08:00	Jereme Brooks 29 Yd Run (Joe Phillips Kick)	7	31
	TD	04:06	Eddie Wide 35 Yd Run (Joe Phillips Kick)	7	38
FOURTH QUARTER				UNM	UTAH
	TD	09:56	Sausan Shakerin 8 Yd Run (Joe Phillips Kick)	7	45
	TD	00:17	Victor James 15 Yd Pass From B.R. Holbrook (James Aho Kick)	14	45

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah freshman Jordan Wynn still hasn't played a whole game.

Wynn didn't have to finish his first start, passing for 297 yards and two touchdowns before resting in the fourth quarter as the Utes (No. 14 BCS, No. 17 AP) beat winless New Mexico 45-14 Saturday night.

Fast Facts

• Utah scored a season-high 45 points and extended its win streak to five games.

• The Utes have won 17 straight home games.

• Eddie Wide rushed for 145 yards, setting a school record with his sixth straight 100-yard game.

• New Mexico remains winless on the season and has lost 13 straight games dating back to last year.

-- ESPN Stats & Information

Wynn completed 18 of 28 passes while leading Utah to 557 yards of offense and the Utes' highest point total in nearly a year.

"He's performing like we need him to," Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said. "He's not playing like a true freshman."

Good thing, too. Next up for Wynn and the Utes is one of the top defense in the country when Utah visits No. 6 TCU.

Wynn was called on a week before in the second half against Wyoming to revive Utah's offense, which had a habit of stalling instead of scoring at the end of drives. That was hardly a problem against the struggling Lobos.

Utah scored all four times it got inside the 20 and broke open the game with three touchdowns in the third quarter.

"That was an explosion in the third quarter," Wynn said. "We talked about it at halftime. We had 17 [points], but that's not good enough for us."

The Utes (8-1, 5-0 Mountain West) won their sixth straight and scored their most points since a 48-24 win over BYU last year to end the regular season.

Eddie Wide set a school record with his sixth straight 100-yard rushing game, gaining 122 yards in the third quarter alone and scoring on a 35-yard run to put Utah up 38-7. He finished with 145 yards on 20 carries with two touchdowns and Sausan Shakerin added 100 yards on 16 carries.

Jereme Brooks finished with six catches for a career-high 135 yards receiving and was one of seven Utah players to catch a pass as Wynn opened up the offense.

"He's a pretty smart guy. He knows the offense well. He knows defenses pretty well, too and knows when to check in and out of things," Brooks said. "Him back there being so smart just makes us a better offense as a whole. He can put any pass where he wants to put it."

New Mexico (0-9, 0-5) lost its 13th straight, the second-longest streak in school history.

After gaining 200 yards in the first half, the Lobos had just 134 yards in the second -- including just 33 yards in the third quarter.

"We have very little margin for error," New Mexico coach Mike Locksley said. "That third quarter, we didn't come out and execute like we did in the first half."

The only setbacks for Utah were five fumbles, four of which the Utes recovered, and Wynn's first career interception. But that was on a fourth-and-2 from the New Mexico 29 and the Lobos would have been better off dropping it instead of catching it at the 14.

Wide, Brooks and Shakerin scored two touchdowns each as the Utes outgained the Lobos 557 yards to 334. The Lobos also hurt themselves with nine penalties for 81 yards.

Donovan Porterie was 15 for 32 for 186 yards and a touchdown and B.R. Holbrook added a touchdown pass against the Utah reserves with 17 seconds left in the game for the Lobos.

New Mexico is in jeopardy of its first winless season since 1987. The Lobos still have No. 25 BYU next week and TCU left on the schedule, leaving them in need of a giant upset against a ranked team or a win over Colorado State on Nov. 21 to get at least one victory this year.

"We have a lot of pride and I know we can play," Locksley said. "Right now the big thing for us is to finish this the right way for our seniors."

New Mexico was still in the game at halftime, down 17-7, until Utah unloaded in the third quarter.

Wynn led the Utes 63 yards on the opening drive, completing a 20-yard screen pass to Shakerin, who bowled over a few Lobos at the goal line for his first career touchdown.

The speedy Brooks made it 31-7 on Utah's next drive, scoring on a 29-yard reverse with eight minutes left in the third. Brooks had to make a right-angle turn to avoid going out of bounds, but kept his feet in and darted down the Utah sideline for his second touchdown of the game.

Brooks also caught a 69-yard pass from Wynn to put Utah up 7-0 in the first quarter.

DeVonte Christopher set up Utah's next touchdown with a 10-yard punt return to the 35, where Wide took a handoff on first down and ran right through the Lobos to make it 38-7 with 4:06 still left in the third.

By the fourth quarter, it was time for the reserves for both teams to come in and finish it up.