Next Level for Utah Football becoming a National Program

[SackLakeCity]

Utah really needs to drop the BYU game every year and I say this as the spawn of a Utah and Cougar.  Instead of playing BYU every year Utah should schedule on neutral site game every year against one of the name schools from the SEC, BIG 12, or Big 10 similar to what they did when they played Michigan.  

The year Utah beat Michigan and beat Oregon I think they rose up to #3 in the polls.  I think by doing this every year and with the new offense and always stable defense, Utah can become a national program.  

The BYU game does nothing for Utah, I feel sad for BYU and hope they can turn it around, but right now Utah has left them behind and even the most zoobiest of zoob BYU fan will almost admit it, one more year and 8 in a row with one more beat down will finallly convince all of them.  

I would schedule following teams to a neutral site game:

 

1- Oklahoma

2- Alabama

3- LSU

4- Ohio State

5- Michigan

6- Florida State

7- Miami

8- Texas

9- Texas A & M

10-Georgia

11- Florida

12- Clemson 

13-Wisconson

14- Penn State

 

I think 1-2 more years of the current level of recruiting and Utah can compete and think these games would be close and some years Utah would win and be catapulted into the National Spotlight.  And enough of these marquee games will help Utah’s brand.

 

[ironman1315]

Never schedule pen state ever.

[BulgieUte]

I’m not in love with the rivalry game but Utah doesn’t have to drop byu to open the schedule for a big name team. They can keep their ABC scheduling model but it’s time to call byu what it is, a B game. The OOC schedule this year was C B C. In other words it sucked and it sure would be nice to have an actual A game.

[Red Don]

I’m not in love with the rivalry game but Utah doesn’t have to drop byu to open the schedule for a big name team. They can keep their ABC scheduling model but it’s time to call byu what it is, a B game. The OOC schedule this year was C B C. In other words it sucked and it sure would be nice to have an actual A game.

No, drop them forever.  We beat them and dropped in the polls.  Playing them is not like playing SJSU because they’re so jacked up because it’s their Super Bowl. Lose, could affect in-state recruiting.  Nothing good at all comes from playing them.  Plus, it would p**s off Greg Hughes and his cohorts.

[BulgieUte]

I wouldn’t mind if they drop the game but that has nothing to do with being able to schedule a true A game as well as byu being the b game. Or we could just drop the sttupid ABC game scheduling and get some good OOC games scheduled regardless of what we do with the obligatory(disgusting tha Utah has been forced into it) byu game.

[Utahute72]

We need to outstrip them enough so that game becomes an after thought, then alternate with USU for an in state game. (Maybe we can even start going 2 for 1). Then you could have a tune-up game, in-state and a national level game in the pre-season.

[SkinyUte]

I say we start demanding a 2-for-1 starting…now.

Mostly just because it would p**s them off SO badly. 🙂

[Thlete]

I’m very against neutral site games. All should schedule home and home games – don’t bow down to TV and advertisers. That said, I would love to get a better OOC game on the schedule than we have for the next 5 years. This year it worked out nicely as we needed to work out some big kinks in the offense, but the season is 1/4 done with and we haven’t played a team with a pulse yet.

[PorterRockwell]

Utah legislature will NEVER allow Utah to drop them off our schedule.  They aren’t foolish enough to legislate us playing them but they aren’t above passing subtle messages about controlling the purse strings and how those purse strings may get significantly tighter if Utah doesn’t play East Provo school of parochialism 

 

 

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