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So Baylor did that in Waco. Bet the crowd was unhappy about that one.

Brutal. Can’t remember the opponent (seems it was someone from back east), but about a decade ago, a team paying a visit to UNLV, deep in Rebel territory in the closing seconds could have taken a knee but tried to score, and the Rebels forced a fumble which was run back for a winning TD. Oops.

Under seems like a safe bet, but perhaps Bishop can have a pair of pick-sixes and Johan a scoop/score to help put points on the board.

Rose going out late in fall practice was an unexpected blow.

One challenge I would think you have with QBs is recruiting a competent experienced back up and telling them they ‘may’ play, but only if a couple others ahead of them get banged up. With most other positions, you can rotate players in to give them some reps, but QBs generally play the…[Read more]

Looks like it is just a lease and just for the time they remain playing here on scholarship.

Last year looked promising for a while with a blowout over visiting Zona (loved how every time the tired old U of A chant started it was quickly silenced by basket or defensive stop by Utah) a respectable showing against TCU and other good results, but a couple of key injuries completely derailed us the last month of the year. I’m hopeful we can…[Read more]

A very nasty late hit and hope he can recover. Season ending if not career ending. Can’t bring myself to watch the replay. Get well Bryson.

I hope that once some of the fans from the other Big 12 schools make a cautious visit to Rice-Eccles, they will be surprised to find that we’re a fairly friendly group and not quite as nasty as some of the BYU fans make us out to be.

If anything, those visitors hearing about all the beer being dumped all over opposing fans may be disappointed to…[Read more]

Mixed feelings about this one. Deion (and the team) have that ‘attitude’ which fans love or hate.

With what’s going on after this season, list of how I feel about the teams (from most liked to most disliked)

Utah (naturally)
Wazzou and Oregon State (just horrible they are being left behind and likely headed to MWC)
Cal and Stanford (at least…[Read more]

UCLA is most important home game on the schedule for me (because the LA schools more than anything started the implosion of our once proud conference) so very excited for Saturday. But hoping we start getting some players back. Yes we have depth, but we’re going to inevitably get more players knocked around over the conference schedule and will…[Read more]

Nothing that I can find about this on the ESPN website.

Intuitively, 18 teams with a west division of Utah/BYU, Zona schools, Wazzou/OSU, Kansas schools, and Colorado and east division of the 9 others, could leave us in a stable league with much of our schedule being to closer schools.

As far as the football title game location, MWC found out…[Read more]

An intriguing matchup. Wish wasn’t played same time as our game.

Now that Colorado, with a completely overhauled roster has played a few games, opponents will be able to analyze game film and be better prepared.

On the East side, caught the full brunt of the sun and there was not a trace of any cloud in the sky. Only got to about 80 but still was rough. My liter of water was gone by the half.

Forecast looks like possible rain Thur/Fri, then clears up again for the weekend. Hopefully will have some lingering clouds on Saturday.

Would have been ideal…[Read more]

Last time we played Idaho was in 1993 and they gave Utah one of our more humbling defeats we’ve ever had. (Back before the Vandals eventually spent some time in FBS only to later drop back to FCS and rejoin the Big Sky).

I’ve tried the same trick in EA College Football a few times myself.

I can only imagine Bill Walton doing the color commentary for a hoops game between San Jose State versus Air Force and endlessly saying “Conference of Champions!”

I thought perhaps he was trying to take as many ticks off the clock as possible before scoring as even a PAT distance field goal can fail. Then the Bear defender deliberately shoved him over the goal line.

Unusual situation.

Too many short kickoffs and subsequent long returns has hurt in recent years. Helps to have more touchbacks. Strong special teams play last weekend (the missed FG was just wide from about 55 yards out) and our punter, Bouwmeester BOOMED several 60+ punts earning conference POW honors.

The reviewed call was one many of us expected to be overturned (including those of us at the stadium, and as I understand, the TV announcers) but very little chance had it been called incomplete that a review would have called it a catch. Overall a decently called game. Guys in stripes are human and make mistakes, but there weren’t as many as…[Read more]

Those of us used to watching everything on Dish or cable will need to get used to streaming. (I finally bought a smart TV earlier this year). 6 of this weekend’s games involving the Big12 are on ESPN+ (whereas every PAC12 game not on a regular network is picked up by PAC12 network).