Arlington, Texas » The goal, David Peck stressed, was to give America a glimpse of what Utah football is all about.

Instead, the Bingham coach and his players were given a taste of the Texas game. And it was blazing hot.

Trinity, from nearby Euless, showed the Miners the kind of speed they had never before seen, and Bingham couldn't keep up. The result was a 42-21 defeat before a crowd estimated at 22,000 in the opening game of Monday's Kirk Herbstreit Varsity Football Series at Cowboys Stadium.

It was not exactly what Peck had in mind when he brought his team south to face Texas' fourth-ranked Class 5A team. The Miners had come expecting to win, the coach said, but even a close loss would have been enough to advance Utah's cause in terms of national respect."I think we had to lose a one-point game, a six-point game, one where we had a chance going down to the wire, for people to say, 'Wow. Look at what Utah is capable of doing,' " Peck said. ``I was hoping we could showcase ourselves a little better than we did.''

Instead, the spotlight was on Trinity's speed.

"We knew they had great speed," Bingham safety Travis McRae said. "I wouldn't say we necessarily underestimated it, but it definitely gave us a run."

Mostly, the Miners (2-1) ran behind Trinity running back Tevin Williams, a 6-1, 177-pound blur who dominated the Bingham defense with 210 yards rushing and three touchdowns.

Williams made it obvious early that the Miners couldn't stop him. On the game's fourth snap, he took a toss sweep left, cut upfield and raced 50 yards for a touchdown. He later reeled off a 54-yard run.

"I wasn't really expecting them to be as fast as that," linebacker Moses Kaumatule said. "He's amazing. I think he's the best running back in the nation."

But Williams was merely one of many swift, elusive weapons, as the Trojans (1-0) rang up 412 yards, 255 of them on the ground.

Trinity's defensive speed held Bingham's star runner, Harvey Langi, to 52 yards, well below his previous average of 139.

"I would read [the play] and I'd flash through the hole as fast as I could, but they flew to the ball very well," said Langi, who managed to score a touchdown on a 15-yard reception, flattening Trinity's Sam Smith in the process.

Still, the Miners had a chance to make a run at Trinity on their first possession of the second half. Trailing 21-7, Bingham moved to the Trinity 46, where on third-and-4, Langi found himself running open down the middle of the field with a clear path to the end zone to close the gap to one touchdown.

But Ty Hannay's pass bounced off his hands, and after the Miners' fake punt on the next play failed to get a first down, the Trojans rolled quickly down the field for what turned out to be the clinching touchdown.

"I thought I had that one, but it was my mistake," Langi said. "I didn't run fast enough. The quarterback threw a perfect pass and I had the speed to go get it. I just didn't get it. There are no excuses on that."