Utah Utes mailbag: “In a lot of ways, Utah still feels like a ‘newcomer’ in the grand college football scheme. They are not a ‘blue blood’ with the Ohio States, Alabamas, etc., but also not a lucky, one-off team either. Where would you say Utah ‘ranks’?”
Plus: Where does Utah football rank as a program, Kyle Whittingham’s attire choices, roadtrip snacks, and more
, or leave it in the comments section at the end of this article and he will answer them in his weekly mailbag.You can feel free to be excited about this team right now, because the trajectory is clearly on the upswing. Utah beat UTSA on Tuesday night to move to 9-2. The team has a pair of Quadrant 1 wins and zero bad losses through 11 games. The Utes will now go to BYU on Saturday , then meet TCU at Vivint Arena on Dec. 21 .
Utah running back Ja'Quinden Jackson runs for a touchdown against Southern California during the second half of the Pac-12 Conference championship NCAA college football game Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, in Las Vegas. For starters, to be clear, Utah is absolutely a newcomer in the greater college football landscape. The Utes were founding members of both the WAC and Mountain West. They’ve been a Pac-12 member and, by extension, playing major college football for 12 years.
Where does Utah rank? There is a small group of teams with legitimate annual aspirations of winning the national championship. The next tier is maybe annually contending for the College Football Playoff, followed by a tier including teams at least annually contending to win their respective conference.
I like Ben’s thinking because it incentivizes actually playing in the game, but again, if you’re a star potentially being picked within the first three or four rounds of the draft, even that bowl-related NIL money shouldn’t matter. As for comparing Whittingham to Bear Bryant, I’m going to assume that was a hard troll job, which was unimaginative and did not yield a laugh. For a minute there, I was going to make a poor comparison centering around both men taking over programs that hadn’t seen a ton of success and made them successful, but no, Alabama was plenty good before Bear Bryant.
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