Warrior Ute

I just recentll tuned in to the game.  I know that Air Force is supposed to be down 35-40 players because of players taking a semester off due to Covid.  This is their first game of the season and they are still beating Navy 33 to 7 in the third.

They give away free teckets to veterans and first responders.  It is a pretty great organization.  I recieved my tickets today.  I am in section 109, lower level corner/side seats about row 30.  If you qualify to get the tickets it can make the trip cheaper.  Hope to see some of you there!

Veterans and first responders can sign up and get free tickets to the game.  About 200 left currently.

1. This football team and the players that chose to come back to make this a special season.
2. UteHub, Tony for creating it and all of those who make it a great community.
3. The potential to see this team play for a conference championship and beyond.

I love the confidence of the team.  

Adam RittenbergESPN Senior Writer 
Utah safety Julian Blackmon on the statement the Utes hope to make right now: “That we’re here. And I hope you’re ready because if we get to the playoffs, we’re gonna beat somebody’s brains in. That’s it.” Utah is extremely confident and rightfully so. One of the more…

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There is often a complaint about the PAC 12 strength of schedule and it impacting our rankings. I thought I would compare the AP top 10 teams” strengths of schedules as rated by Sagarin and Massy and rank them 1 to 10.
 
Sagarin Massey
LSU 4 3
Alabama 9 8
Ohio St 2 4
Clemson 10 10
Penn St 5 5
Georgia 8 9
Oregon 3 2
Utah 6 6
Okla…[Read more]

There is often a complaint about the PAC 12 strength of schedule and it impacting our rankings. I thought I would compare the AP top 10 teams” strengths of schedules as rated by Sagarin and Massey and rank them 1 to 10.

Sagarin Massey

LSU 4 3

Alabama 9 8

Ohio St 2 4

Clemson 10…[Read more]

Made me think of our game at the end of the first half.  They got the touchdown on the next play.  Hopefully that changes the game for them.

I think it could be argued 3 of the best defenses in the Pac 12 are Utah, Cal and Oregon.  Washington has faced two of them and lost to both.
Both Cal and Oregon we have faced two common opponents with Utah:
– Cal faced OSU and ASU.  Utah allowed OSU 64 fewer yards and ASU 229 fewer yards.
– Oregon faced WSU and Cal.  Utah allowed WSU 133 fewer…[Read more]

Utah
Huntley 96.2
Shelley 99.2
 
Cal
Brasch 16.7
Rowell 25.5
 
Ore
Herbert 62.6
 
WSU
Gordon 65.5
 
UCLA
Thompson 83.1
 
ASU
Daniels 72.2
 
Stanford
Costello 83.0
 
U of A
Tate 75.1
Gunnel 77.1
 
I kept hearing before the game that Cal still had one of the most dominant defenses in the conference.  It was talked up as a…[Read more]

Utah

Huntley 96.2

Shelley 99.2

Cal

Brasch 16.7

Rowell 25.5

Ore

Herbert 62.6

WSU

Gordon 65.5

UCLA

Thompson 83.1

ASU

Daniels 72.2

Stanford

Costello 83.0

U of A

Tate 75.1

Gunnel 77.1

I kept hearing before the game that Cal still had one of the most dominant defenses in the conference.  It was talked up as a…[Read more]

Wow, there is no defense going on at the farm this afternoon.

If Moss has another game similar to last week, 100+ yards and 2 TDs, he will break three records.  That would be pretty amazing to have happen all in the same game.
from ESPN:

Moss tied a Utah career record with his 14th 100-yard game, and he is 55 yards shy of breaking Eddie Johnson’s career rushing record of 3,219 yards set in 1984-88. Moss…

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PAC 12’s Overlooked QB
 
One iinteresting quote from the article of the many things that surprised me:
 

If Huntley maintains his current passer rating of 187.6 it would set a Pac-12 single-season record, surpassing the 181.7 passer rating established by Oregon’s Marcus Mariota in 2014.