If there was a time, a moment of truth, this season when the Utah Utes were pushed up hard against a wall, a wall demanding victory, Saturday night was that time, that moment. There definitely will be more of those in the weeks ahead, perhaps every week. But Arizona State came into Rice-Eccles Stadium with a record of 4-1, yet to lose in conference play, with an intention to win the Big 12 again, even without its starting quarterback, who was unavailable due to injury.

Need and opportunity combined, then, to powerfully spell and draw out for and from the Utes the exact thing they stirred within themselves — a dominating performance. It was as though Utah was dead set on lifting up a catawampus world and placing it back on its proper axis, imposing its will and taking revenge on an opponen

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