Nick Wilson, No. 15 Arizona run past No. 17 Utah

SALT LAKE CITY -- Practicing at 6 a.m. in the sprinklers may not have made Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez popular with his players, but it made them feel prepared. Coming from sunny Arizona to stormy Utah, freshman Nick Wilson ran for 218 yards and three touchdowns as the No. 15 Wildcats overcame an injury to quarterback Anu Solomon and pulled away from Utah (No. 17 CFP, No. 20 AP) 42-10 Saturday. "We were ready," Wilson said. "That Thursday practice wasn't really that bad. It was actually kind of fun." Not as fun as it was to run through, around and right by the Utes. "I was fortunate the way the holes opened up the way they did. The offensive line made it easy for me," Wilson said. In heavy rain at times, Wilson had the most rushing yards ever for an Arizona freshman and topped the 1,000-yard mark this season.