UteFanatic

Stanford’s rush defense is beyond awful, and Utah is emerging as one of the best rushing offenses in the conference.

I thought they’d be favored, but that’s a pretty solid opening line for Utah. OSU is tough, should be a good game.

Only going to get so many opportunities against a good team. Frustrating 1st half.

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I’m starting to believe that Utah is actually going to win at the coliseum.

The hits just keep on coming.

It’s flat out inexcusable the team wasn’t ready for the crowd noise. That is an egregious coaching failure.
Every single person knew that stadium was going to be absolutely rocking after their B12 invite.
That is so disappointing to hear. It’s WTF things like this that have me really concerned about where our coaches heads are at.

It goes without saying the SDSU game is a bellwether for the rest of the season. So many questions and concerns voiced by Ute fans since the BYU loss will be answered in this game. 
– Does KWhitt still have the drive and passion required to turn this team around?
– Was our o-line really as bad as they looked?
– Can our young but talented DEs…[Read more]

P12 has been down for several years, but there is still some elite teams in the conference. USC and Oregon recruit as well as most other blue bloods, and it only takes one good game like Oregon is having for there to be a renewed national interest in these programs and the conference as a whole.
Whe elite teams perform well, people tune in.
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It was briefly mentioned in the headlines at the beginning of the show, but not a peep since. It’s little more than an afterthought in the CFB world. I think the new B12 may struggle to stay relevant.
Yes, the P12 has its own issues with visibility and relevance, but at least it still has premier teams.

The secondary looked a little bit lost last night, I don’t know if that’s because they were just playing more of a base zone or what, but I am a bit concerned. I hate to admit it, but if BYU has a strength this year, it’s their WR core. We know Samson is talented when healthy, he made a lot of big plays for Utah. And they have Puka, who is…[Read more]

What a huge get.

Guys, I’m still baffled CU beat UW.  CU pretty much shut UW down and easily controlled the game.  What the hell is happening?  Has CU significantly improved or has UW completely imploded this year?  Is it both?  I’m honestly less surprised by ASU’s win over Oregon than I am with CU’s win over UW.  Oregon showed signs of weakness this year and I…[Read more]

Does anyone know how one would predict the outcome if Utah were to play Minnesota?  It seems likely that if Utah goes to the Rose Bowl, they have a very good chance of playing Minnesota.  I’m just wondering what that theoretical match up would look like.
I know there are ways of doing this using Sagarin, FPI, and SP+ rankings – but I don’t know…[Read more]

For the first time in a long time, Utah’s placekicking and punting are mediocre.  However, we’ve barely even noticed because our offense has been excellent, therefore, we don’t punt very often and now score touchdowns instead of field goals.
It’s weird as a Ute fan to have a very good offense.

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They had a good win last week, so the AP voters have some recency bias.  Their schedule is horrendous and they still have to play two ranked teams in the regular season and a very tough Ohio State (or rematch with Penn State) in the B10 Championship.
If Utah wins out and beats Oregon, we’ll be ranked ahead of Minnesota.