Previous ranking: 14
Week 13 result: 63-21 win vs. Colorado
What’s next: Pac-12 championship game vs. USC (Friday, 8 p.m. ET)
With three losses by only 16 combined points, this wasn’t quite the playoff-caliber season Utah envisioned. But the Utes’ dominant win over Colorado on Saturday — Cameron Rising went 17-for-19 for 234 yards and three touchdowns while the Utes led 42-0 at halftime — gave them a 9-3 record and qualified them for the Pac-12 championship for the fourth time in five seasons. They are the only team to beat USC this season and now head to Las Vegas to try to pull it off a second time. — Bill Connelly
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