2008 National Champ

Just guessing:

Johnson is an ACL. Done for year, can get medical redshirt

Vimahi I think will be back

Mitchell won’t play again today but just precautionary.

someone must have a mental block regarding 2021 and CB injuries

that would be 16 games if Utah made the final. Can’t go undefeated in the regular season and not qualify for the CCG.

I guess it’s mathematically possible that there are 3 Big 12 teams that go undefeated and because of tie-breakers, one wouldn’t get in to the CCG but I feel safe in saying that it won’t happen.

Not sure if it should make the top 10 but without it, Whitt may have gotten canned.

September 15, 2007: Utah 44, (11) UCLA 6. That game bought him enough leash to absorb the Vegas loss the next week and get the team on a roll which fed into 2008 and everything that followed.

I agree that the 30 day window will stick after coaching changes but that’s a band-aid. Again, look at Arizona and Washington whose coaching changes happened after the transfer window had closed. The new staff(s) had to try to figure out who would be willing to stay at their current school as well as shopping from the bargain basement section of…[Read more]

and yet coaches, the people most pushing for the new rule because “it’s too hard to plan your roster if players can’t be forced to stay and can change schools whenever they want”, can still shop their services any time they want and potentially screw up multiple schools coaching staffs in the process.

Ask Arizona and Washington how much fun it…[Read more]

ayup! outisde of injuries, i don’t expect to learn anything this week from a game that Utah should win by ~ 40 points. The real measuring stick is on Sept 7

it’s a good thing first one to 31 points wins isn’t a rule

he didn’t get on the field, but he dressed for the 2021 loss. and as much as I’m able to ignore the parochial school, it’s part of the local conversation no matter what happens. so in his 23 years on the hill, he’s technically oh and one

there is no such thing as a “spread” offense. it simply refers to receiver alignment and originated as a talking head term as teams moved away from “tight” formations like the power I, wish/flex bone, or veer in an attempt to get defenders out of the box to make running easier. over the last 30 years, it’s now become a catchall term that doesn’t…[Read more]

very low % chance that there is a home playoff game in RES in the current CFP format since they would have to be a 5 to 8 seed instead of a conference champ.

With the current emphasis on the big 2, the only way I could see that happening is an undefeated regular season and then losing the CCG by a close enough score that they don’t drop to 9.…[Read more]

spring games where a QB knows he won’t get hit can only tell you so much. Brewer completed something like 264 throws w/o an incompletion a couple of spring games ago. But if you actually watched the game, he would have gotten hit on close to half of them if he’d been live.

Rising did what a 7th year QB should have done against a defense only…[Read more]

week 1 is for the bottom of the roster to see if any have improved enough since spring to get more reps. as camp progresses, the two deep will get a higher % of reps as they move to game planning.

Rising and Kuithe are known quantities so the injury risk of live contact needs to be balanced with the need to build continuity. When you’re basing…[Read more]

water doesn’t get offended if you call it wet.

he’ll be back in 3 months or so when he figures everyone has forgotten

You introduce new wrinkles every week but when you are facing a team that you should be able to beat handily running no more than your base offense, why show more than you have to?

Ludwig will have a couple of things that he wants to work on for Baylor, then a couple of things for Utah State, and so on. Fall camp only provides enough time to get…[Read more]

maybe spend less time on the parochial school fansites trying to find things to make you upset? I’m pretty sure that there isn’t a market on that site for articles that are designed to make you feel good about Utah.

If the premise is “What would it take for the parochial school to win every game this season”, there is nothing wrong with what you quoted.

not sure how hurdles translate to DB play. running in a straight line and jumping over an obstacle v backpedaling and breaking with the receiver in any possible direction. seem like different skillsets.