UteThunder

Let’s say the college football season is minimally impacted, but teams aren’t allowed to start playing until what would be Week 3.
Which is more likely to happen:
Option1 – The first two weeks of the season are cancelled, meaning games scheduled for Aug. 29th (week 0) through Sept. 12th (week 2) never get played? 
Option 2 – The season opens…[Read more]

The second round voting opened at noon today.
Round 2 Voting Open – Go Vote

Matt Van Komen “intends to enter transfer portal”
 
Cue the “he’s a stiff and we have better players coming in next year” crowd.
 
Rinse and repeat.

KSL has a bracket to vote for the best basketball player in Utah history. It’s not much but it is something sports.
 
Go vote

Yes, transfers are more common these days but not at the rate that they have been happening at Utah the last several years. The national average is 14% when looking at transfers from one 4 year university to another 4 year university, while Utah’s is around 25%.
Why are so many more players transferring out of Utah than at other schools? 
If the…[Read more]

Utah, UCLA, & Gonzaga have all had their best run of the last 30 years, which included going to the Final Four, while having Donny Daniels on staff.

NM

. . . they are making some catches! Impressive to watch and makes me jealous.
Our WRs have looked better overall this year, but still too many drops on easy passes. 

. . . to the page where we score lots of points.

Maybe this has already been discussed, but after seeing them lose in Provo to a team we handled somewhat easily, did we not take the Trojans seriously? 

If we look largely the same offensively and lose to USC, what will your reaction be?
 
I only ask because so many seem so adamant that we have intentionally kept our offense very basic these first 3 games and will now unleash our full potential on USC and the rest of the Pac-12. This sounds great and very well might be the case, but we heard the…[Read more]

We all seem to buy into this narrative that Utah has at least one WTF? loss every year, and sometimes two or three. I decided to look at the numbers and what I found surprised me. Going back to 2008, I’ve listed every loss with each opponent’s record. There aren’t very many WTF? losses.
2008 – Undefeated Sugar Bowl season. Not a single…[Read more]

2008: @ Michigan(3-9) – Won 25-23
2009: vs Utah State(4-8) – Won 35-17
2010: vs Pitt(8-5) – Won 27-24
2013: vs Utah State(9-5) – Won 30-26
2015: vs Michigan(10-3) – Won 24-17
 
This idea that Utah starts slow is a bit of a myth in my opinion. Utah starts slow against the FCS opponents and it’s probably due to a lack of interest and game…[Read more]

And finally, the University of UTAH:
@ BYU – WIN
vs Northern Illinois – WIN
vs Idaho State – WIN
@ USC – WIN
vs Washington State – WIN
@ Oregon State – WIN
vs Arizona State – WIN
vs California – WIN
@ Washington – LOSS
vs UCLA – WIN
@ Arizona – WIN
vs Colorado – WIN
11-1
 

Next up, BYU:
vs Utah – LOSS
@ Tennessee – WIN
vs USC – WIN
vs Washington – LOSS
@ Toledo – WIN
@ South Florida – LOSS
vs Boise State – WIN
@ Utah State – LOSS
vs Liberty – WIN
vs Idaho State – WIN
@ UMass – WIN
@ San Diego State – LOSS
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With the conclusion of Fall Camp, it’s time to make some predictions. First up, Utah State:
@ Wake Forest – LOSS
vs Stony Brook – WIN
@ San Diego State – LOSS
vs Colorado State – WIN
@ LSU – LOSS
vs Nevada – WIN
@ Air Force – WIN
vs BYU – WIN
@ Fresno State – WIN
vs Wyoming – WIN
vs Boise State – LOSS
@ New Mexico – WIN
8-4