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Sunday, November 23, 1997
North Texas 51, Utah State 48
DENTON, Texas (AP) -- The final minute and a half of the North
Texas-Utah State game Saturday was all-out war as the two teams
exchanged leads until North Texas finally claimed a 51-48 victory
in the game's final two seconds.
Jason Mills threw for 377 yards and four touchdowns, leading
the Eagles in the game that culminated in the fourth-quarter battle.
North Texas (4-7) led at halftime 16-13, after Garrett Courtney
scored on 47, 34, and 23-yard field goals and Mills threw a 13-yard
scoring pass to Jay Young.
But the Eagles' 3-point lead fell as Utah State scored 21 straight
points during the third quarter behind Matt Sauk's 51 and 14-yard
scoring passes and a Demario Brown 1-yard scoring run.
Entering the fourth quarter, Utah State led 34-19.
North Texas rallied back to the top of the game with an 8-yard
scoring pass from Mills to Kendrick Mollie and a 1-yard scoring
run by Hut Allred, followed by a 38-yard field goal by Courtney.
The Eagles now led 37-34, when Utah State's Brown shot back
with yet another touchdown, placing Utah back on top 41-37.
With just under a minute and a half left in the game, Mills
threw a 62-yard scoring pass to Broderick McGrew and the Eagles
again led the game, 44-42.
But Utah State regrouped and with 37 seconds left, Sauk ran
1 yard for a touchdown. Utah State again led the game at 48-44.
With two seconds left in the game, Mills and McGrew teamed
up on a 26-yard scoring pass that sealed the Eagles' victory.
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