Utah’s offense needs to sustain at least three drives resulting in scores. Which to me would be a drastic improvement and statistically it means Utah gets to around 300 yards. Those scores need to be at least two touchdowns.
Cal’s defense gets takeaways. Two edge rushers with one being a familiar name of Xavier Carlton. Utah needs to not turn the ball over. Obviously those 3 sustained drives can’t result in turnovers. The offense just may not have the health combined with the stamina to keep up with wasted drives.
Utah’s defense could have a good day on that Freshman. The Cal rusher is pretty good. Wanna say he is around 5.8 yards per carry. I think running on Utah is a hard thing. You gotta pass to set up the rush. Turnovers giving Utah short field could be huge. Especially early.
I put zero money on Jackson, Rising and Kuithe playing. I also think Jackson is more impactful than the other two. Jackson is a huge deal. Getting him back will make this offense move. I know we focus on the other two but Jackson going down imo was more impactful on the offense.
So tl;dr. Utah defense holds Cal to 17and Utah offense gets to 21 I think we see a win.
Utah @ 
Mississippi State 
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