Let’s get hyped! What is your all time favorite Utah memory? Favorite play?

one of my first significant Utah memories was the 03 win over Oregon. I was 13 years old and up to that point had been mostly a hoops fan and liked going to football games but it never really hit home for me until this game. I remember the hype the previous year around Urban, and then taking down ranked Nike University and seeing it person was my first “wow” moment with the football team. Walking out of that game so ecstatic with my dad. That win will always be special to me.

Memory:  2008 TCU.  Thought the stadium was going to collapse.  Some dejected TCU fans wished us luck and gave me some Orange Bowl pins after the game.

Play:  The perfectly executed hook & ladder in the Fiesta Bowl.  That play summed up that entire season.

Is it Thursday yet???

That first win over BYU in the McBride era. We had just become Utah fans because my oldest brother went there. We got a lot of crap before that game. But we won. So fun.

1994, Ft Collins Colorado. I was sitting on the first row of the visitors section looking straight down the goal line on Utah’s end zone. I watched Harold Lusk return an interception 100 yards for a touchdown to preserve #8 Utah win over #10 CSU. Obviously there have been bigger moments since then but that is one moment I will never forget as the entire front row went nuts and started doing the “we’re not worthy” chant.

One of my alltime fav wins is the 57-28 zoob game.  Cold as hell but didn’t even notice.  There are so many others….

Travis Wilson’s block.

Earliest memory and the one which made me a Ute fan for life:

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For sure the Sugar Bowl, I was 13 or 14 at the time and we went over to the game. The ticket broker messed up our tickets so he gave us a ticket in one of the Suites occupied by a bunch of Alabama fans. I remember the play that gave us our first TD and all of the Bama big shots were shook and cussing at me for cheering. 

One of the most improbable wins I can remember. Makes it even better with McBride joining the dog pile. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YcMDbPlQgKo#

Brett Ratliff vs. BYU

I was at that game… sitting in the middle of a ton of BYU season ticket holders (including the Reynolds family, and the Coveys).

I sit next to a family of BYU fans that I’ve sat next to probably at least 30 times. His daughter was seated next to me. They noticed that I showed up in Ute gear this time, and the dad immediately switches seats with the daughter (like I’m all of the sudden a child molester or something just because I’m a Ute fan). He then proceeds to talk the usual BYU smack (stadium capacity…). He talked about how we were going to get destroyed without our starting QB. I didn’t say a word, just let him talk.

Needless to say he left in a hurry and didn’t say anything when that game was over… Sat next to him for the next several years, and he never talked to me again. PRICELESS.

(I went to BYU games because my grandparents bought our family season tickets for years and years, and doing so was my payment for being able to go to the BYU/Utah game every other year… totally worth it).

1978 BYU game.  We trailed 22-17 late in the game.  It was 4th down and 19 at the 19.  Randy Gomez hit Henry for a TD pass and we beat BYU which was very unusual in those days.

The TD pass from McCoy against Arizono in the 1994 Freeddom Bowl.

The Flea Flicker agains Pitt in the Fiesta Bowl.

i have no idea who the ute player was but he drilled sean covey (i think it was sean covey) on a rollout to the right.  probably about 20 years ago

The Texas A&M game in 2004 was unbelievable. So much build up and anticipation all summer for that game.  And the way it turned out . . . you could not have scripted it any better.

I recently said this on twitter, but Whitts on side kick v Wyoming in the 3rd quarter in 2007 was amazing.

Wyomings “guarantee” game.  I love how we caught a glimps of just how fierce and competitive Coach Kyle really is.

Wyoming head coach Joe Glenn told boosters this week that he guaranteed a victory against the Utes. Utah apparently took exception to that claim and while they were up 43-0 in the 3rd quarter, tried to convert an onside kick. The picture is CSTV’s camera’s capturing Joe Glenn’s reaction to the Utah bench.

https://deadspin.com/321338/wyoming-gives-utah-the-new-york-hello

Nothing will ever top sitting in the north end of (then called) Cougar Stadium in 1993.  Game tied 31-31 Chris Yergensen trots out to attempt a 53 yarder with under a minute left.  All the Cougar fans around us are laughing and boasting that after he misses, they’ll take over and waltz down the field to win the game.  He puts it just inside the post, the Utah fans go crazy and the BYU fans are in stunned disbelief.

So many good memories here already. One of my favorites was in the ’97 Utah/BYU game down in Provo. I was a jr at the U and made my way down there with my girlfriend at the time. Of course, we were basically the only Utes sitting in a sea of blue. (I’m pretty sure they were still royal blue back then; it’s hard to remember anymore).

It was a low scoring game. Darnell Arceneaux was a true freshman QB. I can’t remember if he played that game due to an injury or ineffectiveness of our older QBs. But he came into that game and just willed the whole team to a win rushing for two touchdowns (one in the 4Q to seal the win) to go along with a couple FGs. He was the leading rusher in that game, even out-rushing Chris Fuamatu Ma’afala.

Alabama Sugar Bowl, I was giddy during that 1st Quarter, especially.  Watched from home – shoulda traveled down there.

A fun game to be in the stands was homecoming circa 1980 when snowball fights erupted in the student section.

I’ve been to a few road games such as at TCU, but I must be a jinx – even for hoops.

I was a freshman in 1978, and member of the Army ROTC cannon crew, when Utah beat the BYU team with both Jim McMahon and Kyle Whittingham. With BYU leading 16-0 at halftime, many of the fans, both Utah and BYU had left. But Utah scored a couple of touchdowns, and we fired the cannon four times, one each for the touchdown and extra point. The cannon attracted fans, again, both Utah and BYU, back into the stadium, where we watched the Utah defense hold McMahon and BYU, limiting the BYU offense to 88 yards in the second half, while Utah scored 23 points, mostly off turnovers, to win 23-22. This was well before the MUSS, however we fans who stayed made quite a racket. I was horse for a week after that game.

It was a fleeting moment of joy, not repeated until after I had graduated, when Utah won again in 1988.

For the details see: http://utahfootballcountdown.blogspot.com/2007/08/20-november-18-1978-utah-vs-byu.html

Most talked about, if not memorable moment – at least in my family. We had invited some neighbors, a BYU family, four kids, to come over for the 2006 Holy War. By half-time I had had enough, both wives, upstairs, yapping, my kids, his kids, running around, and a game that was getting increasingly pitchy. During half-time I talked to my neighbor, and simply told him he had to go! Him and his family. I just could not watch the game with a BYU fan, even thinking at the time we were going to win. He and his family left, and the Ute’s lost, karma I guess, Harline is still open.

I saw the guy later in the week, apologized, and he laughed it off. It took me ten years to laugh that loss off. My wife is still angry about that one.

But still one of my most memorable Utah moments, albeit in a loss.

Here is one that hasn’t been mentioned.  The 2007 UCLA game.  UCLA was ranked 11, and the Utes were on nobody’s radar.  My wife had bought me tickets for birthday, but I was not expecting much.  We had Tommy Grady at QB, and UCLA had Ben Olson. 

We just dominated them on both sides of the ball.  The final score was 44-6.  The excitement in the stadium was so electric, I was hooked on Utah Football.  I bought season tickets for the very first time the next year (2008), which was clearly one of the best purchases I have ever made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRR5fv0PXXQ