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I don’t follow his logic…

– We won’t be able to expose their terrible run D because, as pointed out above, their 2 most experienced LB’s are gone? Pretty sure Oregon had/has arguably the 2 best LB’s in the nation, TT ran for 94 & 63 yards in those games, not great but not terrible.

– We won’t be able to stop their DE with our O-line, even though that same O-line twice completely neutralized Kayvon Thibodeaux, who was arguably the most talented DE in the nation. To top it off I recall they used the TE’s a bunch to stop Kayvon… the same TE’s that are back.

It’s like wiping before you poop – it just doesn’t make sense.

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If it helps – ASU fans themselves have admitted we have the top defense in the PAC, based on them playing 2 cupcakes and us 1 cupcake plus SDSU. I’m just hoping to see our guys smiling and having fun again.

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Well now I want to know how far Oregon dropped after their loss to Auburn – 9 or 2.5 spots.

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Committee putting Minnesota at 8 is telling to me… IMO that means they will jump them over Utah & Oregon with a couple more ranked wins (Iowa & Wisconsin). Every week that stupid USC loss becomes more & more glaring. Just keep winning Utes, just keep winning.

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We could gain quite a bit of ground the next two weeks if:

we beat UCLA this week

Oregon somehow falls to Arizona this week

we beat Arizona next week

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Thanks for pointing that out, missed it somehow.

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IMO if we had beaten USC we would be 4th right now – Bama would be behind because of their loss, and because none of their current wins are better than any current wins we have. Same with Georgia – their loss to SC would have them behind us even if they have some better wins.

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This is my preference as well, UW made it to the playoff and lost and it doesn’t seem to have hurt their recruiting at all… if losing a playoff game had that much of a negative consequence then I have to imagine we wouldn’t be seeing some of these teams back in it year after year…

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Exactly, my understanding is that the star rating is just supposed to indicate how well the recruit could play starting as a true freshman – it isn’t supposed to indicate their ceiling or overall talent level.

So while that shows we only recruited 8 four & five stars, IMO the coaching staff has developed a lot of 3 stars into 5 star players. How many of those four & fiver star players have regressed due to bad development or are busts?

I’m not saying we shouldn’t strive for the four & fives stars, we absolutely should because JJ is a great example of what a four star turns into with Utah’s development, but I hate the pundits who always bring up the blue chip ratio as if it’s a law of the universe.

Would be interesting to see them do an updated evaluation on the teams and rate them now, to see if coaching development has brought Utah’s players up to par with those other teams.

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Ah good to know.