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The RB situation is unfortunate…but realistically, not something that could be avoided. If we’ve got JaQuinden Jackson, Micah Bernard, Jaylon Glover and Chris Curry as our top 4 and ALL of them get hurt, yeah it’s going to leave us relying on unproven players. But I think that’s basically true for any program. And luckily we do have a bunch…[Read more]

It’s early, but right now Covey is #2 in both total punt return yardage and in average punt return yardage (interestingly #1 there is Rashid Shaheed from Weber St).

Obviously makes it harder, but I don’t think it eliminates us at all.

Honestly I’d be mildly shocked if ANY team makes it through the PAC gauntlet without taking at least one loss. And there certainly won’t be two teams that do so, so a single loss isn’t going to end anyone. Last year we even made it with two losses (though we did need some…[Read more]

There’s some non-local guys with offers
Zacharyus Williams
Ikinasio Tupou
Jericho Johnson
Jason Mitchell
are all highly-rated out-of-state recruits listed as warm for Utah

That sounds a LOT like the Utah-USU rivalry; 25-5 since 1983

The problem with “this season only” is what has Texas done to be #1. They beat Alabama, which is a huge deal…but if we’re looking 2023 only then Alabama lost to Texas, beat a low end CUSA team, struggled with a low end AAC team (less impressive than Western Kentucky did against that team)

Actually Western Kentucky (2023 only) has the same (or…[Read more]

Right now Sagarin has Weber St as the #100 team.

FBS teams right near them include

• #97: Boston College
• #98: Liberty
• #99: Stanford
• #100: Weber St
• #101: UAB
• #102: UNLV
• #103: Rice

So certainly not elite company, but not Sam Houston St (#144) or Southern Utah (#177) or Utah Tech (#216)

This presumes our offense (with Rising) is on par with USC or Washington… Which almost certainly isn’t the case. USC is an offensive juggernaut hoping for a good enough defense. Utah is the opposite. And whatever explosiveness our offense develops is a bonus

I’m enjoying the PAC absolutely dominating OOC. No OOC losses for the conference yet. No losses at all, but USC or Stanford will lose when they play one another

I have a pretty good dataset where I track every P5 (and relevant G5) team’s success over the last decade. It’s basically scaled to represent how many games that team would win in an average season where they played 1 FCS team, 2 G5 teams, 3 low-end P5, 3 mediocre P5, and 3 good P5 teams

The current ranking for the last decade is

1. Oklahoma St…

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It was a bad Baylor game for sure… but given our road struggles, the general weirdness of opening games and the invigorating nature of a new QB, they’re absolutely still a threat. Like you said, it reminds you of Utah 2021…which turned out pretty good for us.

Here’s some cases of P5 teams losing to a FCS or G5 school in their opener over the…[Read more]

Neither of these takes are true. I’m sure there are a few delusional enough to think BYU can come in and win the Big 12, but there are delusional dumb fans in every fanbase. There are fans I know who think BYU will win 10 games this year (or at least they did before yesterday). But that’s the exception.

However, it’s also not true that most…[Read more]

This same article says

“For 32 years from 1982 to 2014, Lane Stadium [Virginia Tech] also had the highest elevation for a college football stadium in the U.S.”

I’m thinking it might not be the most well-researched article out there

So I can’t help but feel nobody has addressed the most interesting part of this

Said Barnes is the starter now, but Johnson has gained a lot of ground in the last few days.

Does that mean that Johnson is still a possibility to overtake Barnes?

Honestly, stuff like this doesn’t take a ton of time. Less than people think it does. But it’s kind of fun

He hasn’t yet earned himself a spot on the roster. As a UDFA, he was a longshot to make the roster to begin with. He’s played very well though (not just in games, but also in practices) and has been good on special teams, which is very important for a depth LB.

At this point, I’d argue that he’s played his way onto the bubble – which is an…[Read more]

There’s huge variety in ACL injuries and recoveries. Amari Rodgers tore his on March 26, 2019 while at Clemson, and was back dominating on the field in less than 6 months (167 days after his tear). He played well enough to be drafted early

JK Dobbins tore his ACL in the 2021 preseason (August 28 2021) and then spent the next entire year+…[Read more]

Oh yeah. I post both here and on CougarBoard. Grew up a Utah fan, went to BYU so am interested in both.

Wrote it up there (formatting is generally easier over there), but then thought it could be useful here so copied it over with all the html tags…most of which worked well, but a few needed to be modifed