read that Wyoming was blitzing, although he had more time than he realized.
But it was the wrong throw. Its usually a mistake to throw short of the sticks on 3rd down.
Jaren Hall is doing incredibly in not turning it over, so he does have that going for him. However, in that instance it would have been better to throw a deep ball than a no hope flat route. A deep ball could have been caught for a first down, could be incomplete, or could be intercepted. But the latter two options would be no worse than what happened - a completion that was too short and then a punt.
But he made up for it the rest of the game.