2008 National Champ

The play should have been called dead the instant Tafuna made contact with the center but he got to the QB so fast, I’m not sure the whistle was blown quick enough. Definitely a penalty as Dallas and CC Ute have stated.

I think back to the 2000 NFL season when Baltimore had an incredible defense and was able to win the Super Bowl with Trent Dilfer at QB. Dilfer had 12 TD’s and 11 Int’s, didn’t complete 60% of his passes. And yet Baltimore won all of their playoff games by multiple scores.

2023 Utah doesn’t need Penix, Williams, etc to win games. They just…[Read more]

It’s a good question. Perhaps Vaki is just better than the 3.

Bigger issue for me is that Utah took 3 in the same class. If they can’t get on the field when there are only two other healthy backs in the room, how many of them stick around for spring ball?

When Jordan Wilmore was being recruited, I looked on 247 and they had a tape of all of his carries in one game. He broke a couple where he was untouched, but on every other carry he went down on first contact, even if it was a DB. So I was skeptical when the buzz about Wilmore was that he was going to be the next great back.

Glover’s tape made…[Read more]

RES won’t be any louder than Husky stadium was yesterday and Nix has been playing in tough environments his whole college career. The stadium gauge read over 120 decibels pretty consistently when Oregon was on offense with a high of 131 – if you can believe the gauge.

Oregon will make mistakes and it looks like both of their starting CB’s were…[Read more]

There are a lot of P5 QB’s out there and I’d say Barnes is about average. He’s actually pretty good at avoiding the rush and has done a decent job of picking up yards when the opportunity is there. He doesn’t have a classic style so he looks slower than I think he actually is. And I agree that I would like him to decide where he’s going with…[Read more]

As long as Utah’s D holds SC under 28 points, they can win. The offense has to get the job done, but that’s pretty much the threshold.

Against Oregon, the D is going to have to hold them to 17 or less.

interesting that a self-submitted set of highlights may not be the best indicator of performance at the next level.

define P5 QB

Grinch owes his entire DC career to Hercules Mata’afa. Why some of the “best” minds in the business haven’t been able to figure that out.,,

Up to 2nd in Rushing yards allowed / game at 66.8. 9th in all yds/game at 277.8. Still at 5th in ppg allowed at 12.2.

47th in Rushing offense at 172.7, 118th in all yds/game at 322.2, tied for 112th with 21.67 ppg

Cool World reference?

That’s one heck of a recruiting pitch: “come to Salt Lake. Our offense is better than Iowa’s, aka the worst offense in the nation”

Not if the tie-breaker comes down to head to head, but we can figure out the 3 way pretty easily since it comes down to who you don’t play.

All of the NW schools miss one of the LA schools so any tie-breaker Utah is in with those 4 comes down to UCLA or USC being better than Stanford which looks pretty safe at this point. Since Utah and WSU…[Read more]

I don’t know but I hope they aren’t getting their fumbleitis out of their system tonight. Save a couple of those for next week boys

it’s Cuog’d

November is Seattle is going to be cold, wet and windy. It wouldn’t surprise me to see some snow since we always seemed to get a snow day in November when I was a kid.

They aren’t giving up points (~20 ppg) but they are allowing just under 400 yards per against less than stellar competition. Before today’s game I thought Oregon had the better defense of the two, at least in relation to what Utah would like to do on offense. Unless they get Letuligasenoa back, UW is vulnerable to the run and they still were…[Read more]

Johnny? Is that you?