UteFanatic

Guys, I’m still baffled CU beat UW.  CU pretty much shut UW down and easily controlled the game.  What the hell is happening?  Has CU significantly improved or has UW completely imploded this year?  Is it both?  I’m honestly less surprised by ASU’s win over Oregon than I am with CU’s win over UW.  Oregon showed signs of weakness this year and I…[Read more]

Does anyone know how one would predict the outcome if Utah were to play Minnesota?  It seems likely that if Utah goes to the Rose Bowl, they have a very good chance of playing Minnesota.  I’m just wondering what that theoretical match up would look like.
I know there are ways of doing this using Sagarin, FPI, and SP+ rankings – but I don’t know…[Read more]

For the first time in a long time, Utah’s placekicking and punting are mediocre.  However, we’ve barely even noticed because our offense has been excellent, therefore, we don’t punt very often and now score touchdowns instead of field goals.
It’s weird as a Ute fan to have a very good offense.

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They had a good win last week, so the AP voters have some recency bias.  Their schedule is horrendous and they still have to play two ranked teams in the regular season and a very tough Ohio State (or rematch with Penn State) in the B10 Championship.
If Utah wins out and beats Oregon, we’ll be ranked ahead of Minnesota.

Just venting here for a second…
I’m a little annoyed that a garbage UCLA team is still in the running for the division title given how horrendously bad they were the first half of the season.  It’s a bad look for the conference that such a poor team is still in the mix for a division title this late in the season.
Furthermore, it adds to the…[Read more]

…their fans have no respect for Utah at all. 90% of their fans think they will easily win and that Utah is overrated trash.
Can’t really blame them. UW owns Utah in general, and Petersen has been owning Whitt since 2006.
I would love nothing more than to blow out UW and humble their arrogant fanbase. 

EagleMountainUte made a very astute observation earlier today.  Utah’s defense is being described as “elite” this year by many football analysts (and the stats back up those claims).  However, I agree with EMU in that Utah’s defense isn’t markedly better than in year’s past. 
The differense is that we finally have a good offense to go with the…[Read more]

LFG

Tyler Huntley has had a rough time versus ASU.
2017 – 19/35, 155 yds, 0 TD 4 INT, 11.6 QBR
2018 – 7/15, 88 yds, 1 TD 2 INT, 46.3 QBR (injured in the 3rd quarter)
For some reason, Tyler has played extraordinarily bad against ASU.  Add in the frustration he must feel from sustaining his season-ending injury last year against them, I hope he is…[Read more]

Huntley is the type of QB I get so frustrated with when their on the opposing team. So glad this guy is on our team. That little pitch to Brumfield on 4th down as he was in the process of being sacked was CLUTCH.