The Miami Ute

You mean it’s not enforced on athletes?

You’re a poet and don’t even know it. You’ve expertly encapsulated the reasons why being in the Big 12 does nothing for me. It’s really nothing personal against the schools, it’s that I liked taking road trips to Seattle, or Oregon, or the Bay Area, or LA and it wasn’t just about the game but the actual destinations where the games took place.…[Read more]

Dude, I’m from Miami and went to the University of Miami…the Hurricanes’ real rival are the Gators, which is a rivalry that dates from the early 40s or well before FSU even existed. It was played every year until 1987 when it stopped because the Gators got tired of losing to the Canes. I would equate that rivalry to the Utah vs BYU rivalry…[Read more]

Blue Bloods (And others like them) Record This Season:

1. USC: 4-5/2-5 in CONF
2. Michigan: 5-5/3-4 in CONF
3. Washington: 5-5/3-4 in CONF
4. FSU: 1-9/1-7 in CONF
5. Nebraska: 5-4/2-4 in CONF

Looks like a few other bigtime programs with more massive investments are doing just as bad or worse than Utah.

Why do you say that BYU and Utah are connected at the hip? One is a private institution and the other one is a public institution. You can make a case for both A&M and Texas being connected at the hip since they both belong to the State of Texas, but Utah and BYU? Not so much…there’s absolutely nothing legally connecting the two schools.…[Read more]

Did you even have cognition when Cincinnati swept the Yankees in the 1976 World Series? I saw every one of those games and only one was really close.

You know, you point out something that’s really, really interesting…and that is that if the Ivy Leagues wanted to dip their toes in the water and really run the College Football show, there’s absolutely nothing that anyone could do about it. Can you imagine the draw of million-dollar contracts for each player (pocket lint to the Ivies),…[Read more]

Yeap, but the good thing is that you can flip the script from one season to the next. Now more than ever…

Yeah, I physically saw that game versus Notre Dame…Lou Holtz was the ND coach at the time and it wasn’t pretty…

Stanford has been down since 2019, but, immediately prior to that, they won an Orange Bowl, a Foster Farms Bowl, two Rose Bowls, and two Sun Bowls. In addition, they went to but lost an additional Rose Bowl, a Fiesta Bowl, an…[Read more]

I’ve been perusing a few Big 12 sites on YouTube and I’ve identified a major problem. It seems, at least to me, that the entire narrative is being dictated by BYU fans or BYU fans pretending to be Utah fans. I’ve seen plenty of so-called Utah fans making statements like “We’re so embarrassed at our AD and you’re so right to call him out. We…[Read more]

It’s an ever-changing list that’s based on current and past success. To me, Oregon is more of a blue blood than Nebraska or Oklahoma, who I no longer consider blue bloods at all due to extended periods of mediocrity or middling success.

Anybody that places WVU above an university that has an endowment the size of Egypt’s GDP needs to get his head examined? Seriously? How old is this guy? Stanford completely dominated the PAC 12 in the seven year period between 2010-2016. How soon people forget.

Terry McAulay? He’s a media personality now trying to validate his existence and expand his brand. Did you know that he has an agent and you can book him for a speaking engagement? And we’re really supposed to believe that he looked at every single play of that game? OK, then.

I think everyone here that watched the game pretty much already knew this. The problem is that BYU’s agitprop machine is trying to make it seem as if Utah didn’t have a legitimate complaint.

I prefer never to play BYU ever again. I’m widely traveled and god-damned if this rivalry doesn’t remind me of the Catholic/Protestant divide in Northern Ireland. BYU has its flags and murals and so do we…it’s just too personal and, unlike other rivalries I’ve been part of, you can’t get away from it. I mean, the cul-de-sac I live in is split…[Read more]

Thanks for your post and insights. I grew up as a Yankees’ fan in the 70s and absolutely hated the Red Sox growing up. I still don’t like them but not as much as I used to.

If you read BYU fans’ comments on YouTube, well, there’s got to be something clinical going on…most of the comments make it sound as if Utah was committing penalties on every play.

Hey folks, chin up…I remember traveling to see Utah play Oregon in the 2019 CCG in Santa Clara.

Utah had absolutely everything to play for, most importantly, a spot in the CFP.

Oregon had nothing to play for…if they won, they went to the Rose Bowl…if they lost, they went to the Rose Bowl.

What happened? Oregon 34 – Utah 15 is what…[Read more]

Well, I’m not wrong, am I?