Jon Wilner’s Pac 12 Rewind: lots of props to Utah

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Great recognition from Jon Wilner of the Mercury News. The link to the article is below but here are the main clips:

Coach of the week: Utah’s Kyle Whittingham

The halftime speech (whatever it was) and halftime adjustments (whatever they were) should be documented for posterity in Salt Lake City. Backdrop the Utes performance Saturday night against the tragedy and turbulent emotions that have consumed his program in the past month, and Whittingham’s steady hand is all the more impressive.

Tweet of the week: Whittingham

Not a peep had been uttered from the Twitter handle @UtahCoachWhitt since Aug. 24, when it recognized the death of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts. And then, from the silence, came this nugget late last night: “28 unanswered.” Just a guess, but it wouldn’t appear the feed cares much for Arizona State. Wonder why that could be.

Player of the week: Utah LB Devin Lloyd

We gave serious consideration to Utah quarterback Cam Rising, WSU quarterback Jayden de Laura, Oregon tailback Travis Dye and UCLA tailback Zach Charbonnet. And we don’t typically select defensive players. But Lloyd was so good Saturday night — in the biggest game of the weekend, against the top offense in the conference — that we could have sworn there were three of him. Lloyd finished with four tackles-for-loss, two sacks and a pass break-up and essentially wrecked ASU by himself. It was next-level stuff for a player who will be at the next level next season.

Pac 12 Rewind by Jon Wilner

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Meant to also include this other clip from the article:

Game of next week II: Utah at Oregon State

The visitor is alone in first place in the South. The host is tied for first place in the North. The matchup is worthy of a better platform than the Pac-12 Networks will provide (4:30 p.m. kickoff), but neither ESPN or FS1 has an evening window available. In fact, there are no Pac-12 night games next Saturday.

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