2008 National Champ

why? he’d started for this program, passed up higher rated recruits, and still wasn’t elevated to scholarship status until they pretty much had to. at some point you have to realize that no matter what you do, it won’t be good enough. might as well try somewhere else and see if you can be appreciated.

If this wasn’t so predictable, it would be disheartening. Who needs a running game that can move the clock when you’ve got the GOAT, the man who walks on water at the helm and even better, the latest 4 star recruit who will be immediately ready to play at championship level just like Tuttle, Costelli, Jackson, Johnson.,,

No one believed that.,, let me rephrase, no one who wasn’t inclined to believe that everything that went wrong for Utah in 2023 would magically go right for Utah in 2024 believed that Rising was a lock to make it through the season healthy.

And Baylor scores again on a gassed defense because the Utah offense can’t be counted on to take more that…[Read more]

Rose is only QB3 because Huard didn’t show up until fall camp and doesn’t know the offense. Wilson passing up Rose is more of an indictment of Rose than about Wilson’s prowess.

We heard a lot of excuses last year about Rose not being in command of the offense but the truth was that as bad as Barnes and Johnson were, Rose wasn’t any…[Read more]

yeah, yeah.,, I know better than to go with excessive hyperbole on here. Some people think anything they read is meant to be serious

no doubt. The D has this game won. Just need Wilson to not let Baylor back in it. As for next week, this D should still be enough. Then you hope that Rising can be back for conference play

that can’t be true. I’ve been told all week that Wilson just needs Rising to get out of his way so that he can win the Heisman. I mean, there are some who have even claimed that him throwing picks last week was a good thing

got tossed into the coolers on the Baylor sideline. I actually thought he might have taken on to the ribs but it sounds like he might have landed on his hand

of course he threw a horrible pick 12 seconds after I posted. Now you have to wonder if the transitive property of college football means that the MAC > Big-12 because Bowling Green played Penn State tight on the road while West Virginia looked bad at home against them.

I’m not forgetting. Because they were undefeated going into the CCG, the committee had already decided that they would get one of the 4 spots. Things still had to break right but they got it. Had Utah not trucked SC in the CCG, SC would have been in over TCU.

Then you look at 2023 and there were indications that the committee was just looking…[Read more]

confidence may have been the wrong word but I don’t know what to replace it with. Both Brewer and Bentley seemed so afraid of turning the ball over that they wouldn’t put the ball anywhere near danger. Which was strange since both came in with the reputation of being gunslingers who would make something out of nothing.

Was that mentality…[Read more]

It’s the one negative when trying to project Scalley. You hope that since he has spent so much time in the program, it will be a smooth transition but I just can’t get past the fact that he doesn’t have experience (both successes and failures) with other schools and a rolodex built up over his career.

If it was easy to take over for a…[Read more]

I’m not sure there’s any margin for error this year. The narrative is already out there that the B1G, SEC and Notre Dame will get 9 of the 12 spots. It’s just going to be confirmation bias the rest of the way.

Utah needs to win the conference championship game to get in. Anything other than that puts it in the committee’s hands and they’ve…[Read more]

Brewer’s issue was that he didn’t have confidence. That will never be a problem with Rising.

I’m hoping it was just 1st game back after a long layoff issues. We’ll see in an hour or so.