Punching above your weight, Utah is good but not perfect.

[UTE98]

So to win that OSU game we would have had to play an almost perfect game.

When you look at overall recruiting rankings which really factor in 4/5 star players here is how Utah did against teams above them.

#3 best roster Ohio State 16 – 5 stars / 49 – 4 stars (48-45 L)

#9 Oregon 4 – 5 stars / 44 – 4 stars (38-10 and 38-7 wins)

#10 USC 2 – 5 stars / 44 – 4 stars (42-26 win)

#17 UW 2 – 5 stars / 34 – 4 stars (DNP)

#24 UCLA 0 – 5 stars / 21 – 4 stars (44-24 win)

#25 Stanford 0 – 5 stars / 21 – 4 stars (52-7) *difference came down to having less 3 stars than UCLA

#26 ASU 1 – 5 star / 21 – 4 stars (35-21) **difference comes down to overall player rating

#32 Utah 0 – 5 star / 17 4 stars 

Source: https://247sports.com/Season/2021-Football/CollegeTeamTalentComposite/

So when you look at it 6 of our 10 wins this season came against teams ranked ahead of us. But those stupid trap games which we should win, those accounted for 3 of our 4 losses.

 

[Tony (admin)]

Coaching.