UteThunder

Kind of hard to believe after seeing how poorly we played yesterday, but Utah would be 26th in the AP and 27th in the Coaches if the polls went that far.
Coaches Poll
AP Poll

For their “SuperDog” picks. Herby made it clear they aren’t necessarily picking an upset, just to cover. 
 

A few have voiced their displeasure(?), confusion(?), frustration(?) with Penn State remaining in the top 10 after beating Appalachian State.
In 2008, were you bothered when Utah moved up from #11 to #10 after beating a 4-5 at the time, and eventually 4-8, New Mexico team by a score of just 13-10?
That Appalachian State win will probably end up…[Read more]

41-0 & 414 – That is the score and total yardage we put up against Northern Colorado in 2012. 
70-7 & 628 – That is the score and total yardage we put up against Weber State in 2013. 
We finished 5-7 both of those seasons.
Now, I’m not saying we are going to finish 5-7, I actually think we will go 9-3 or 10-2. But the point is this: There is…[Read more]

Utah – I had us going 10-2 with losses to Stanford and Oregon. I feel less confident about our chances against ASU, Colorado, and BYU who all looked signifcantly better than they were a year ago. Right now I say we finish 9-3 with the additional loss coming @ ASU or @ Colorado.
BYU – I had them at 6-6 with wins against Cal, McNeese St., Hawaii,…[Read more]

Makes Swiss Cheese look like a brick wall.

I didn’t watch much of Arizona last year other than when we played them. Does Tate always look this disinterested? Every time they show him on the sideline he looks like he would rather be anywhere but in this game.

If we are going to eject players for targeting, then there should be different levels of targeting similar to flagrant fouls in the NBA.
So many targeting penalties are questionable, even with slow-motion replay. For blatant targeting(think, crown of the helmet to the facemask), yeah, eject that player. But for so many other plays where it’s…[Read more]

The Masters is great. Super Bowl Sunday is awesome. The start of March Madness is crazy. But this weekend . . . the first full weekend of COLLEGE FOOTBALL is the absolute best! Starting Thursday, we get 5 straight days of college football and it’s Labor Day weekend as a bonus. It is by far my favorite weekend of sports the entire year.

I’ll be…[Read more]

The Masters is great. Super Bowl Sunday is awesome. The start of March Madness is crazy. But this weekend . . . the first full weekend of COLLEGE FOOTBALL is the absolute best! It is by far my favorite weekend of sports the entire year.
I’ll be watching a ton of football this weekend, but here’s the games that really have my interest . .…[Read more]

There are three coaches I would love to give truth serum to and get their thoughts on our team’s talent level vs other places.
Gary Andersen: He left after the ’08-’09 Sugar Bowl season and has come back after the team has been replenished with years of Pac-12 recruiting. How does our current talent stack up vs what it was when he was last here?…[Read more]

Coach A-Rod wasn’t very highly thought of by most Ute fans. The criticism was always that his position groups were the weakest and most underperforming on the team and/or showed little to no improvement from one year to the next. And A-Rod was to blame.
If the BYU QBs perform well under him, I wonder if the opinions of his coaching abilities will…[Read more]

Making the Hallandale Trio or whatever they’re called, Huntley #1, Moss #2, and Simpkins #3.