Utes vs. Huskies official thread

[BoylenOver]

Tough loss. That would have been nice to get your first PAC-12 win at home.

ASU next, right? Home or away?

It's at home. But it's clear we have a ton of work to do before we're successful.

[il Padrino Ute]

Tough loss. That would have been nice to get your first PAC-12 win at home.

ASU next, right? Home or away?

It's a home game. So we've got that going for us.

[tooblue]

And a hearty cloaca boy to you too.

TMI ... what you do in the sewer is your business.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Tough loss. That would have been nice to get your first PAC-12 win at home.

ASU next, right? Home or away?

[BoylenOver]

13-0 in the MWC is better than 8-4 in the PAC, but 11-1 in the MWC is just as good as 7-5 in the PAC. Nevermind that 10-2 (or even 9-3) gives you the opportunity to play in the Rose Bowl.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Of course they can say 'no'. And they can decline to take the sacrament. Either way it brings the scrutiny of the hco, and everybody else will assume somebody has been naughty again, and not just in a Vanilla cappuccino way.

Oh please. Like you would know.

[Cougarmandias]

Pull the string cloak boy.

And a hearty cloaca boy to you too.

[tooblue]

And we're the new . . . rivals for Utah State.

Pull the string cloak boy.

[Jacob]

8-4 in the PAC12 gets more respect than 13-0 in the MWC. I'd have to say yes, though it's not an emphatic yes.

I think that is way off. Is there anybody on the planet that thinks last year's 8-4 PAC12 teams were better or more respected than last year's Boise or TCU? Clearly not.

Washington is 2-0 in the pac12. They aren't in the bottom half of the conference.

6 teams in their division, they will finish 3rd at best. That's pretty close to the bottom half. It's not like the P12 is all world. They have 2 really good teams and a 3rd barely cracking the top 25. It's not SEC or B12. But it is way better than the Mtn West and leftover WAC.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Ute fans weren't hearing anything about how turnovers turned the momentum of the BYU game, now thats all they can talk about is the what if game with turnovers. I think some would call it "zoob logic" or "poppinga logic"

Please, I haven't seen any Ute fans claiming that the momentum wasn't turned by the turnovers in the BYU game. Of course the turnovers turned the momentum. What you have is Ute fans combating the complete horseshit from BYU fans that every turnover was completely because of BYU and Utah had nothing to do with a 54-10 victory.

[BoylenOver]

Losing sucks, but at least Colorado lost!

[Cougarmandias]

I just got home from Priesthood ... Utah is the new Arizona.

And we're the new . . . rivals for Utah State.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Our QB recruiting since BJ has been piss poor and pretty damn unacceptable. Hearing that we passed on Price makes me even more pissed off about our QB recruiting. Hopefully Chow rights that ship because we aren't going anywhere in the Pac-12 with the likes of Wynn and Hays. You would have a hard time arguing that Wynn is any better than the 12 best Pac-12 QB. I guess it is possible that Oregon St, Colorado and UCLA have a worse QB. Makes sense to lump us in there though because right now those are our peers in the Pac12. I knew this transition was going to be rough, but I didn't think it would be this rough. I thought 6 or more wins was acceptable and I'd be thrilled if we get there. Unfortunately, I'm not sure there are 4 wins left on this schedule.

[il Padrino Ute]

The MWC Utes went 13-0 in 2004, thumping Pitt in the BCS Fiesta Bowl. Ya'll were #4 in AP and #5 in the Coaches.

That year ASU went 9-3, playing Purdue in the mighty Sun Bowl. They finished #19 AP/#20 Coaches.

Oregon State went 7-5, played ND in the prestigious Insight Bowl, and finished unranked.

Advantage: Utah.

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The MWC Utes went 13-0 in 2008, thumping Bama in the Sugar Bowl. #2 AP (!)/#4 Coaches.

Oregon State went 9-4, playing Pitt in the mighty Sun Bowl, finishing #18 AP/#19 Coaches

Cal went 9-4, played Miami in the historic Emeral Bowl, and finished unranked AP/#25 Coaches

Arizona went 8-5, played in the EPIC Las Vegas Bowl against the Cougs and finished unranked

Advantage: Utah

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Naturally you jump to the PAC if you can, but there are always risks and trade-offs in every decision.

Hope Wynn recovers.

Very good points. Still, even after that, there were far too many folks who played the "If Utah played in a BCS conference...."

[tooblue]

I just got home from Priesthood ... Utah is the new Arizona.