Wilson’s TD toss lifts No. 19 Utah past USC

Stanford 38, Oregon State 14:

SALT LAKE CITY — Travis Wilson threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to Kaelin Clay with eight seconds left to give No. 19 Utah a 24-21 victory over No. 20 USC on Saturday night.

Wilson put the Utes (6-1, 3-1 Pac-12) in position for the winning touchdown when he was flushed from the pocket and scrambled 19 yards, diving as he approached the goal line. The play was initially ruled a touchdown, but was overturned on review — giving Utah the ball a foot from the end zone.

Devontae Booker was stopped just short on the next play before Wilson’s touchdown pass on a sprint out to the right side — a catch that also was reviewed before it was confirmed.

After Adoree’ Jackson returned the kickoff to the USC 28, the Trojans’ lastgasp effort was snuffed when Cody Kessler was sacked by Nate Orchard and Hunter Dimick on the final play.

Black-clad Utes fans streamed onto the field around some of the Trojans players, who stood motionless, stunned at another last-second loss.

USC dropped to 5-3 overall and 4-2 in the Pac-12.

Wilson was 18-for-32 passing for 194 yards, and Booker had his fourth straight 100-yard game with 102 yards.

Utah overcame two fumbles on the 1 to claim its biggest victory since joining the Pac-12 four years ago.

Kessler completed 24-of-32 attempts for 264 yards and Javorius Allen ran for 101 yards, but the Trojans couldn’t convert a late fourth down after opting not to kick a field goal with a 21-17 lead.

Utah forced the turnover on downs with 2:08 to play when Nelson Agholor stepped out of bounds a yard short of the first-down marker at the Utah 27.

At Stanford, Calif. — The Oregon-Stanford game just got a lot more interesting.

Kevin Hogan threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, Ty Montgomery returned a punt for a score and Stanford’s sporadic offense busted out of a season-long slump in a rout of Oregon State. The victory sets up a date with the sixth-ranked Ducks for first place in the Pac-12’s North Division.

“For the first time offensively, it felt like us,” Stanford coach David Shaw said.

The Cardinal (5-3, 3-2 Pac-12) controlled the game from start to finish, showing more diverse looks that they have all season — just like Shaw had Oregon Stanford Cal Wash. Oregon St. Wash. St. Ariz. St. USC Ariz. Utah UCLA Colo.

Late Friday

No. 6 Oregon 59, California 41:

Pac-12 standings

North W L PF 4 1 153 4 2 187 3 1 165 3 1 110 3 2 196 0 5 176

Friday’s result Oregon 59, California 41

Saturday’s results UCLA 40, Colorado 37, 2OT Stanford 38, Oregon St. 14 Arizona 59, Washington St. 37 Utah 24, USC 21 Arizona St. 24, Washington 10

Saturday’s games Washington at Colorado, 10 a.m. USC at Washington St., 1:30 p.m. Stanford at Oregon, 4:30 p.m. Arizona at UCLA, 7:30 p.m. California at Oregon St., 7:30 p.m. Utah at Arizona St., 8 p.m. W L PF PA 4 1 208 153 3 2 112 83 2 4 246 290 1 3 74 96 1 3 83 133 1 4 172 218

South PA 140 136 134 100 170 229

WL71 53 44 53 43 26

W61 53 61 61 62 26 promised after a perplexing 26-10 loss at Arizona State last week took Stanford out of the Associated Press poll for the first time in four years.

Stanford still had its share of mistakes, though, showing the turnaround is not quite complete. Hogan tossed two interceptions, Ben Rhyne had a punt blocked and Jordan Williamson made one of two short field goals.

But the victory kept the Cardinal in control of winning a third consecutive Pac-12 title.

“I told our players, ‘The last time our constituents were nervous about us and not sure what we were going to do, we won three straight games and went to the Rose Bowl,’ ” Shaw said, recalling last season’s improbable run. “The year before, when the world was crashing down around us once again, we won eight straight and went to the Rose Bowl. It’s a long season. There are a lot of things that happen.”

Oregon State (4-3, 1-3) is all but out of the race to make the conference championship game now.

At Santa Clara, Calif. — Marcus Mariota matched his season high with five touchdown passes and broke the Oregon (7-1, 4-1 Pac-12) record for career passing yards in the Ducks’ victory over California (4-4, 2-4) on Friday night in the first college game at Levi’s Stadium. Mariota completed 18 of 30 passes for 326 yards.