UteBacker

Happy Holidays to all of you.  That was one hell of a football season and I’m VERY thankful to have been in the playoff discussion the last week of the season.  We’re not quite there yet, but I love the upward trajectory.
I’m wondering what everyone’s thoughts are on the upcoming bowl game.  I’ll be honest, the life was kind of sucked out of me a…[Read more]

Most of the top 9 in the CFP rankings are on the road this weekend.  These are the only 9 teams that still have a chance to make the playoffs (teams with 1 loss or less).  
Based on Massey’s predictor, there’s only a 10% chance of all 9 teams winning this weekend.  Utah’s 98% chance of beating Colorado is second only to Georgia’s 99% chance of…[Read more]

OMG, it’s about time to get this thing rolling again!  I’m so excited to sit at a rain-free game tomorrow (probably just jinxed us all).
I know it’s been a long 2 weeks, but is anyone else kind of thankful that we had a bye after that Washington game?  I mean, we got a GIANT monkey off our backs on that one and if we would have played this UCLA…[Read more]

Just a few random thoughts for a stress-free bye weekend…
 

• Utah is only six wins away from shoving our Sugar Bowl and Fiesta Bowl trophies aside to make room for the National Championship prize.  Interestingly enough, we have an 83% chance of winning the first three games but it drops to a 3% chance of winning the last three (I used Oregon,…

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Man, I would NOT want to be on the selection committee this year.
Let’s ASSUME the following three teams end up undefeated (and assured a spot):
Ohio State- I don’t see anyone beating them.
LSU- Whoever wins the Bama/LSU game will win out.  I like LSU.
Clemson- They’ll win the Sun Belt 2 Conference and go undefeated.
 
That could very well…[Read more]

With the exception of USC, we own the last win vs. every other Pac12 team right now.
INCREDIBLE.

Stat experts- am I calculating this correctly?
Massey gives us a 49% chance of beating Washington and gives USC a 46% chance of beating Oregon.  So the chances of the following scenarios are as follows:
Utah W/ USC W 31.8%
Utah W/ USC L 33.8%
Utah L/ USC L 34.4%
It’s going to be a stressful 7 hours on Saturday.  Buckle up.

It’s almost November and as far as the South Division goes, UCLA controls their own destiny and we do not.
That’s messed up.

If UCLA hangs on, it could be down to Oregon in the North and the Utes and SC in the South.  Three teams left that can do anything of note.  Crazy.

If UCLA hangs on, it could be down to Oregon in the North and the Utes and SC in the South.  Three teams left that can do anything of note and we’re not even to November.  Crazy.