Utah coach focuses on positives

After coming up one spot short in their bid for the national

championship, the country's only undefeated team could have been

bitter.

The Utah Utes, however, have opted to look on the bright side of things.

They capped the most successful season in school history (13-0) with the

program's highest ranking ever, finishing No. 2 in the Associated Press Top

25 and No. 4 in the USA Today Coaches Poll.

Utah received 16 first-place votes in the AP rankings and one from the

coaches, the latter cast — as promised — by head coach Kyle

Whittingham.

Florida and former Ute coach Urban Meyer topped both of the major polls

after defeating Oklahoma, 24-14, in the BCS National Championship Game

on Thursday night in Miami.

"National champions is really a relative term. It's an opinion. Until

there's a playoff system that's all it's going to be," Whittingham said in

a teleconference Friday morning. "So we're really not caught up in that at

this point and time."

"It's all opinion," he added, "and there's really no true champion with

the system that is in place."

As such, the Utes' aren't worrying about what might have been.