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Utah Utes football: Start time of Utes' season-opener set

How many games does BYU get on ABC???? ohhhh too bad cougars. at least you get to play a bottom feeding pac 10 team in washington that nobody in the country will care about.


GO UTES!!!

Hey, BYU will get to play their ABC game at the end of the year in the BCS game! Sorry you think you season opening game on ABC is a lot cooler. I can't blame you guys though. That's your bowl game.

How many games will BYU play on ABC? I guess that would depend on whether ABC happens to cover the BCS game BYU will be playing the first week of January.

Is that all you got?

Just one more reason you know the Cougs are back. Must suck not having won anything meaningful in the rivalry for the last two years.

I almost feel for you.

The bigger question is do they get to play on or after New Years Day? And we all know that Answer: NOT!!!!!!!!!!!! Fight On. Enjoy being on the outside looking in! Truth Hurts

Try saving your smack until AFTER Utah beats BYU in something meaningful. AFTER you defend the goal line as time expires, AFTER you stop a 4th and 18 down, AFTER something worth remembering. Yeah, you might want to wait a little bit, because talking smack to the team that's been smacking you around for the past few years doesn't make too much sense to me.

Yewts will get burned in the big house. just like at OSU last year. Brian Johnson will get injured and the yewts will struggle to get 7 or 8 wins. Yewts also lose to OSU at home, Wyoming on the road, Air Force on the road, New Mexico on the road, and they will lose to BYU at home. However, the Yewts will rebound and continue their bowl winning streak after beating a weak team from the WAC in the mighty New Mexico Bowl.

The game is on ABC. Why? Because Michigan is playing. Ute fans need to remember that this is a paycheck game for them. That is what major programs like Michigan do the first game of the season. They invite a team into their house that will be easy to beat. Last year they took a chance and lost to Appalachian St. This year they wanted to play it safe so they invited the Utes. By the way, this is another perfect example of Ute fan's strange obsession with BYU football. This article is about the Utes and yet Ute fans bring up BYU again. BYU could be playing Michigan on Aug. 30 but they don't have to. Northern Iowa is coming to Provo because that is what major programs do. Simple fact: Northern Iowa is to BYU what Utah is to Michigan but keep bragging about playing on ABC.

Now yoot fans can count down to the exact minute that their first loss of the season will start. Better get your excuses ready yoot fans. Here, let me help you: "They just got lucky. Again!!" "The refs helped them!" "All our best players were injured!" "We're still the better team!" "The sun got in our eyes!" "It was the altitude from the lake effect!" And this one for later in the year: "If we played them now we could beat them!"

Have fun.

You can forget about that BCS game in January on ABC. It ain't going to happen for a couple reasons. First, if most of you actually followed college football outside the borders of happy valley, you'd realize that FOX now covers most of the BCS games except the Rose Bowl (sorry guys, as delusional as many of you are even you have to admit BYU has no chance at the Rose).

Seoondly, talk of a BCS game is pointless anyway. BYU isn't going undefeated. I predict at least two losses (UCLA or Washington & Utah) and a Poinsettia Bowl appearance. Back to reality...

Careful prove jose, remember the last time your boys played a weak team from your so called weak conference, BOISE STATE!!! How about the time you thought Nevada was so week you could fly in on game day. Or the time your lawyers were trying to find a way to get you into the BCS and you played Hawai'i. Atleast their championship bowl game is after Christmas! Big Fish in little pound. Keep listening to the salt lake media tell you how great you are, because they are the only media outlets who will.

Just curious. What about a one point, botched FG attempt which allowed you to win your bowl game against the 5th place PAC-10 team (missing their top 2 QB's, RB's, etc.) makes you think your team is poised for a BCS run this year?

I would suggest to most of you that BYU better be signficantly improved this year or else all this talk of the BCS is going to be put to rest very early against more middle of the pack PAC-10 competition.

Some things just never change. A couple good seasons and BYU fans and their delusions of grandeaur reemerge from the closet. Thankfully the Lord has a way of humbling those whose pride and arrogance has grown to large proportions. I predict that humbling experience will take place at the UCLA and/or Washington games and continue against TCU and/or Utah. Reality check time folks.

A small article about the Utes getting a national TV game and BYU fans are coming out of the woodwork and flying off the handle to try to malign and belittle their rivals. Kind of sad, really.

I find it quite amusing some BYU fans accuse Utah of "little brother" syndrome given what I'm reading here.

It will be funny to see the Yewts get embarrassed on national tv and their BCS hopes will go down the drain. Michigan 41- Yewts 10

BYU is not going to BCS bowls.
Not this year. Not next year.

See. That is byu fans problems. THEY THINK THEY KNOW EVERYTHING. The thing is the Utes are good, better than byu fans think. The Utah Michigan game will be a good, hard fought game, with the winner deserving the victory, and that winner could very easily be Utah.

While we all dislike the u (Never capitalize a reference to the largest community college in SLC) let�s wish them well for the good of the conference. I hope the guy�s in red take to Michigan.

It was Ute fans that brought up BYU just like you are doing. Remember the BLOCKED field goal in the Las Vegas Bowl to complete another 11-2 season? That was done in a rebuilding year.

As a Wolverine fan that will be at the season opener I can say there is no way UM is going to lose to Utah. UM will be extra motivated to avoid losing another home opener. Rodriquez will be running a new offense and he is one of the best coaches in the country. While it's true UM lost a lot of players to the NFL (Long, Hart, Henne, Manningham to name a few) Michigan is so deep in talent that even their third stringers were 3 and 4 star recruits out of high school. Michigan is stronger, bigger, more athletic and more physical. The tradition criticism of Big Ten football has been the lack of offensive creativity and that will change with Coach Rod. The only thing I'm concerned about (and it's a big concern) is the quarterback position. Utah is a decent team but that means Michigan isn't going to overlook them like they did App State. If Michigan shows up they will win. Hail to the victors.

The only new information we got from this story is that we now know what time we will be playing our season opener. We already knew we are playing that day in Ann Arbor, just not what time we are playing. From a story that really didn't need to be put online, we have the smack talk starting! I love it!

For my part: Bronco talks big and has delivered big so far, but the wheel doesn't stop turning. This is BYU's year to disappoint. I know that the Cougs think that if they do what is right on and off the field they are entitled to something. Sorry, folks, it doesn't work that way.