Utah steals one from No. 15 Pittsburgh in overtime, 27-24

Utah freshman Brian Blechen intercepted a pass on the first play of overtime, setting up Joe Phillips for a 21-yard field goal that gave the Utes a 27-24 victory against No. 15 Pittsburgh on Thursday night at Salt Lake City.

Pittsburgh had rallied with 14 points in the fourth quarter, forcing overtime on Dan Hutchins’ 30-yard field goal on the final play of regulation.

The Utes iced Hutchins twice with timeouts, the strategy backfiring the second time when Hutchins’ miss was erased.

But after Utah won the toss and elected to play defense, Blechen quickly doused any hopes the Panthers had of completing the comeback when he bolted in front of Pitt receiver Mike Shanahan and grabbed Tino Sunseri’s pass at the sideline.

Jordan Wynn passed for 283 yards with three touchdowns for Utah, including two to Jereme Brooks.

No. 2 Ohio State 45, Marshall 7: Terrelle Pryor tossed three touchdown passes, Brandon Saine rushed for 103 yards and two scores, and the Buckeyes rolled over error-prone Marshall in front of 105,040 at Ohio Stadium. Pryor completed 17 of 25 passes for 247 yards, with scoring passes of six and 11 yards to DeVier Posey and 65 yards to Dane Sanzenbacher.

No. 13 Miami 45, Florida A&M 0: Jacory Harris threw for 210 yards and three touchdowns before sitting out the second half, and Leonard Hankerson caught six passes for 115 yards and two scores in the Hurricanes’ first shutout since Oct. 14, 2006. Damien Berry had a 32-yard touchdown reception for the Hurricanes, who were up 35-0 after the game’s first 25 minutes and visit Ohio State a week from Saturday.

Elsewhere

Duane Bennett rushed for a career-high 187 yards and Jon Hoese scored three touchdowns only days after deciding to make the trip to lead Minnesota to a grinding season-opening 24-17 win at Middle Tennessee State. Hoese’s father had a severe stroke last week. …Alexander Robinson rushed for 97 yards and two touchdowns and Iowa State beat Northern Illinois, 27-10. … Quarterback Stephen Garcia and freshman tailback Marcus Lattimore each ran for two touchdowns, and South Carolina Coach Steve Spurrier won his 18th straight college opener, 41-13, over Southern Missississippi. . .. Darius Willis ran for two touchdowns and Ben Chappell threw for two more — all in the first half — as Indiana routed Towson, 51-17. Bill Lynch improved to 4-0 in home openers as the Indiana coach. … Wake Forest had six rushing touchdowns in a 53-13 rout of Presbyterian. … Lightning caused the postponement of the game between Eastern Kentucky and Missouri State at Springfield, Mo. It was rescheduled for Friday.