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Superstition be Damned, and so against a very odd superstition I inherited from my old man (God rest his soul) I’m wearing all my Utes gear today to try and switch things up for this long season’s finale. Anyone else on the Ute Hub board got interesting game day superstitions, and if so, anyone like me switching them up today?

And as always, Go Utes!

So my opinion of this season is that if CR was truly the Alpha Male that KW always said he was in that not only was he the best player at his position that he also made everyone else better that the coaches bet too much on an often and seriously injured player to play all season and elevate the overall team…having said that, I’m very glad that…[Read more]

The entire ESPN Game Day crew save Herbstreit picked BYU, with Herbstreit noting that rivalry games like this is what CFB is all about. Good omen?

I’m personally not surprised at the FB team’s struggles this year, as first, the offense was built on the assumption of a pre-injury CR skill set, which didn’t get to be fully implemented for obvious reasons, and second that the transition to a new conference with different travel, unfamiliar match-ups, etc., is always a challenge. That said, I’m…[Read more]

KW is known as a very loyal coach to his players, sometimes to the team’s detriment, IMO. Keeping CR playing after he was clearly injured reminded me a bit of KW keeping TT as the #1 running back when he clearly wasn’t as committed as he had been his first season. I think “resting” CR for the rest of the season so he can heal up for the combine…[Read more]

I will admit that I haven’t watched the game yet as I DVR’d it, but having said that, here’s a potentially unpopular take on the loss to AZ after reading about the game and several related Ute Hub posts:

First, Utah always seems to have at least one “WTF” loss per season, with the exceptions of 2004 and 2008, and in 2008 there were games that…[Read more]

From Monday’s USA Today article “College football Week 4 overreactions”:

Just send the Big 12 trophy to Utah

With the win at Oklahoma State in the bank and the Sunflower State contenders fading, the Utes are clearly in the driver’s seat in their new conference at this early juncture. The remainder of their schedule looks quite manageable with o…[Read more]

I like that OSU is favored to win, should add a bit more motivation for our Utes!

Not sure how Dr. Pepper’s advertising company got this one so right but you gotta admit it’s both funny and unfortunately timely…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6pcq6jS2ss

Watched the NDS-CO game and watching the PSU-WV game to try and get a bead on some of the Ute’s upcoming competition this year and new B12 conference mates. Does it seem to anyone else that OPI has been deemphasized this year? I saw several egregious missed calls during the CO game and one at the end of the PSU-WV 1st half. With the new 2 minute…[Read more]

Interesting read and novel approach to detail just how long conference realignment has been underway…and while I was expecting a bit more at the end, you’ll smile just the same – trust me!

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/40792939/how-realignment-left-college-football-four-major-conferences