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There's no danger at Snow College after an anonymous former student threatened the school on Facebook, state officials said.
Police believe the out-of-state male author of the post did not plan to hurt anyone, said Derek Walk, a campus police officer.
"He didn't intend to act on this as far as we can tell," Walk said Wednesday. "I think he was trying to ruffle some feathers."
The post went up on the "Snow College Confessions" Facebook page Sept. 19 at about 10:45 p.m., about a week before the game.
"Lets just say, homecoming this weekend is gonna go out with a bang," it read, according to a statement from the Utah attorney general's office.
The bulletin has since been deleted from the site, but still can be found through a Google search. It continued: "And the football game is gonna be one no one is ever gonna forget."
Authorities first learned of the post when a student saw it and called to report the threat a few days before the game.
Google later gave the sender's IP address to police, who had issued a search warrant for the information and used it to track the suspect. Officers are not seeking any other suspects, Walk said, and no charges had been filed as of Wednesday evening. Police would not identify who the man is or where he lives.
Officers from Snow College, Ephraim Police Department and the Kane County Sheriffs' Office responded, monitoring campus that weekend.
"I went to school at Snow last year," one commenter added minutes after the post went up. Am I the only one who thinks this sounds threatening? Or am I just crazy?"
Attorney General Sean Reyes praised the work of local officers.
"We are pleased to have been part of this successful outcome," Reyes said in a prepared statement.
The suspect did not graduate from the school but took classes there last spring, said university spokesperson John Stevens. Stevens said he didn't know how old the student was or why he stopped going to school there.
Snow College President Gary Carlston added he's happy no one was harmed over the weekend and is grateful for the officers' quick response.
The "Snow College Confessions" page allows students to submit anonymous comments through another site, which then go up on the Facebook page.
"Good ol' Snow College Confessions is back and ready for more crazy stories, or just anything that you feel like sticking up here!" says the page that started up in August.
The school is a two-year college of about 4,600 students in Sanpete County.