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Bit of a miscommunication here.

The post you reference is NOT saying Ute Hub is trashing the Big 12. It’s referencing a different post on UteHub that asked what happened to Utah’s online reputation and saying it should be obvious – that so many on Twitter have been trashing the Big 12 that of course it makes Utah fans come off…[Read more]

Radcliffe is an interesting case. (Caveat that I don’t have all his film and wouldn’t be the person most qualified to break it down anyway)

He had an incredible sophomore season and got recruiting sites as a composite high 3 star.

Then he missed all of his junior year with injury… But his recruiting rating kept going up until he was a…[Read more]

Arizona has repeatedly been mentioned as one of the strongest and best organized NIL collectives (a bit of a surprise given their relative position in CFB pecking order), so I’m aure that contributes

But…., they’ve also lost a lot of their top recruits recently. For 2024, they have two 4 star recruits and then another 4 who are 3-stars but are…[Read more]

I feel like 7 AM PST (when the advisory ends) is well before the game starts?

At this point it’s pretty tough to get through every possibility. There are 131072 different ways that the rest of the PAC12 season could play out. In 31808 of those, Utah ends up at least tied for second.

Trying ot figure out tiebreakers there gets ugly. Right now the idea is to beat Washington next week. And hope that Oregon and/or…[Read more]

Fairly frequently

In the last decade alone,
2017 Myles Garrett (2016 Texas A&M finished 8-5 and unranked)
2016 Jared Goff (2015 Cal finished 8-5 and unranked)
2013 Eric Fisher (2012 Central Michigan was 7-6 and nowhere near ranked)

Yeah, conceding the touchdown there doesn’t seem like the right choice. Holding them to a FG wins the game for you.

Our last road win against a ranked team (not including neutral site as road) was against Colorado in 2020.

Our last 5 road games against ranked opponents have gone
Loss (2022, #12 Oregon)
Loss (2022, #18 UCLA)
Win (2020, #21 Colorado)
Loss (2017, #16 Washington)
Loss (2017, #13 USC)

Prior to that we also beat #13 Oregon at Autzen in 2015

That…[Read more]

The RB situation is unfortunate…but realistically, not something that could be avoided. If we’ve got JaQuinden Jackson, Micah Bernard, Jaylon Glover and Chris Curry as our top 4 and ALL of them get hurt, yeah it’s going to leave us relying on unproven players. But I think that’s basically true for any program. And luckily we do have a bunch…[Read more]

It’s early, but right now Covey is #2 in both total punt return yardage and in average punt return yardage (interestingly #1 there is Rashid Shaheed from Weber St).

Obviously makes it harder, but I don’t think it eliminates us at all.

Honestly I’d be mildly shocked if ANY team makes it through the PAC gauntlet without taking at least one loss. And there certainly won’t be two teams that do so, so a single loss isn’t going to end anyone. Last year we even made it with two losses (though we did need some…[Read more]

There’s some non-local guys with offers
Zacharyus Williams
Ikinasio Tupou
Jericho Johnson
Jason Mitchell
are all highly-rated out-of-state recruits listed as warm for Utah

That sounds a LOT like the Utah-USU rivalry; 25-5 since 1983

The problem with “this season only” is what has Texas done to be #1. They beat Alabama, which is a huge deal…but if we’re looking 2023 only then Alabama lost to Texas, beat a low end CUSA team, struggled with a low end AAC team (less impressive than Western Kentucky did against that team)

Actually Western Kentucky (2023 only) has the same (or…[Read more]

Right now Sagarin has Weber St as the #100 team.

FBS teams right near them include

• #97: Boston College
• #98: Liberty
• #99: Stanford
• #100: Weber St
• #101: UAB
• #102: UNLV
• #103: Rice

So certainly not elite company, but not Sam Houston St (#144) or Southern Utah (#177) or Utah Tech (#216)

This presumes our offense (with Rising) is on par with USC or Washington… Which almost certainly isn’t the case. USC is an offensive juggernaut hoping for a good enough defense. Utah is the opposite. And whatever explosiveness our offense develops is a bonus

I’m enjoying the PAC absolutely dominating OOC. No OOC losses for the conference yet. No losses at all, but USC or Stanford will lose when they play one another

I have a pretty good dataset where I track every P5 (and relevant G5) team’s success over the last decade. It’s basically scaled to represent how many games that team would win in an average season where they played 1 FCS team, 2 G5 teams, 3 low-end P5, 3 mediocre P5, and 3 good P5 teams

The current ranking for the last decade is

1. Oklahoma St…

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