2008 National Champ

yep. Mychael Pittman catching every rainbow and the refs killing any promising Utah drive. Moss and Huntley both hurt in the game and still only lost by 7. That’s the game that made me think Utah could be really damned good that year if they could just stay healthy.

as expected

it was reminding me of the SC game, i think 2019, where it seemed like Utah got a flag on every offensive play

I don’t think it matters. Can only play K-state in the CCG where Utah’s opponents record doesn’t really matter since it “win and you are in the CFP”. Either team losing doesn’t help since it’s a non-con game.

I guess if you think Utah will get a ratings bump by beating a 3-0 Arizona instead of 2-1 in two weeks.,,

how many flags can Arizona get on one drive? 2 false starts, 2 holds and counting

As an OC (not including 2020 for obvious reasons):

2018 – 27.23 ppg (79th), 364.9 ypg (101st)
2019 – 28.46 ppg (67th), 444.8 ypg (27th)
2021 – 31.64 ppg (40th), 422.9 ypg (53rd)
2022 – 32.15 ppg (39th), 413.8 ypg (45th)
2023 – 23.08 ppg (101st), 377.8 ypg (73rd)

I’ll admit to only watching Grimes’s offenses in games against Utah. From that…[Read more]

Sure, but Utah has also beaten that same talent level. You can’t say that Oregon, Stanford, Washington or Michigan – if you want to go back that far – don’t count even though they had lines full of blue-chips just because Utah beat them.

What else are they going to say about the guy who is most likely to start the next game? that he sucks and they have no confidence in him being able to put his shoes on the proper feet, let alone call the right play or hand the ball of to the correct person?

Bigger issue to me is that if Wilson plays Saturday, you’ve effectively burned his…[Read more]

facepalm. he was trolling Cottonwood earlier the same day

It always has been.

– Hugh McElhenny was quoted in the 1950’s that he had to take a pay cut when he went pro
– The original college football teams in the 1890’s paid their players

The notion of the “scholar-athlete” was something the NCAA came up with so they could enforce draconian rules on kids while expanding their power

He went to grad school at Utah but I don’t know if he got another degree there before he got caught at the Cottonwood Mall.

Ted Bundy? you kinda went off the rails there at the end.

Caleb Williams was making the bulk of his money off national ads like Dr. Pepper, somewhere in the 10MM range. Their collective probably didn’t need to pay him anything.

Rose probably. Huard is up in the air but it shouldn’t take a 4th year QB that long to learn the offense. At most, it’s just getting the different terminology down.

For as good as Huard’s pedigree was, he got chances his freshman year at UW and didn’t do well. And he didn’t exactly tear it up after dropping to FCS. He throws a pretty ball but…[Read more]

As Eagle said, it’s only a one game sample.

2023 Baylor: 20-13, 377 yards
2024 Baylor: 23-12, 292 yards

It’s odd. We have all acknowledged that Whitt reverts to coachspeak whenever possible and doesn’t give out any information that he doesn’t have to. And yet, some will absolutely go to the mats on anything that he says at a presser.

Wilson throwing 40 yards downfield to a double covered Parks tells me that the playbook wasn’t contracted.

There was a time when QB’s were taught to throw with their Index finger off the ball. If that is the limit of the damage, it shouldn’t affect his throwing as much as middle or ring finger would.

it was a superb throw and not an easy catch. but a big-time receiver will make sure that ball doesn’t hit the ground. I’m sure Singer was kicking himself all weekend about that drop and apologized during today’s film review.

Never? Never Ever? Never have you Ever seen a Utah WR block downfield as well as Singer?

why wait for someone to actually suggest such a thing when there are strawmen just begging to be taken down?