COLLEGE FOOTBALL : Bad Snap Is Bad Break for Utah; Stanford Wins : Nonconference: Interception with 13 seconds left seals the 27-20 victory.

Stanford’s Alistair White intercepted a Mike Fouts pass following a bad snap with 13 seconds remaining to preserve a 27-20 Cardinal victory over Utah on Saturday night.

Down 27-20, Utah had the ball on Stanford’s two-yard line with 20 seconds to play. Fouts retrieved the snap that flew over his head, then threw into the heart of the Cardinal defense. White picked it off at the two and returned it to the five-yard line, where the Cardinal ran out the clock.

Stanford’s Anthony Bookman rushed 27 times for 113 yards and the Cardinal defense held Utah to 255 yards total offense. Utah (0-2) completed only 12 of 32 passes and had two intercepted.

Stanford (2-0) trailed at halftime, 13-10, but scored on an 11-play, 75-yard drive to open the second half. Greg Comella rushed three yards for a touchdown with 9:53 to go in the third period.

The Cardinal also scored on the next two possessions. Mark Butterfield found Mark Harris for three-yard touchdown pass with 2:09 left in the third.

Eric Abrams added a 50-yard field goal with 14:15 remaining in the game to lift the Cardinal to a 27-13 lead.

Utah’s Harold Lusk intercepted a Butterfield pass at the Stanford 28 and returned it to the Stanford three-yard line. Two plays later, Juan Johnson, who rushed for 106 yards, ran for a five-yard score with 8:34 remaining.

Calbert Beck blocked a Stanford field-goal attempt to give the Utes the ball with 3:18 to play. Fouts, who replaced ineffective starting quarterback Brandon Jones in the third quarter, drove Utah 64 yards in three minutes before White’s game-saving interception.