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Utah Utes: Team celebrates unbeaten regular season with BCS anticipation

Nice to know "Jared" was in attendence.

Anywho, what a great list of seniors. They'll be in serious reload mode next year...But next year won't happen until after the BCS bowl!

I'm oing out on a limb and saying Utah will be picked last by the Orange bowl and play Virgina Tech. If so, the Utes will have a serious chance of winning another BCS game!

I very glad to hear that Nai didn't have any structural damage to his knee.

"Am I going to leave? No. No. I love it here," Whittingham told The Daily Utah Chronicle.

I for one want to believe coach Whittingham. But BIG money and guaranteed contracts are hard to turn down, even for someone as loyal as Kyle.

Let's all hope he stays. There are going to be a lot of big name programs looking for a new coach over the next month.

I wasn't aware that the home team has the right to dictate what an opponent may not do during warmups.

It could have been the Ute's best defensive play to take on the dreaded Haka. Once a team Hakas on you, how do you get the momentum back?

Thanks Deseret News. Any of those bowls sound good to me. Go Utes!

I for one that it was great that the UTE's took matter into their own hands and shut down this stupid act. If the Little Cougers what to do it in Provo, Fine. In our house NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!

I'd love to see the U play Florida, we'd see 2 coaches who love the run up a score play each other.

My guess is that if the U does play Florida, Ute fans will come to hate Urban. (Really, he has lost all class). If the BCS could go away, maybe Urban would stop running up the score on teams (like the Citadel) to get votes in the polls.

Nonetheless, I will be cheering for the Utes and all other MWC teams come bowl time.

Utah should have been penalized for crossing the field in the pregame, confronting BYU and almost starting a brawl. They had no business being over there. It's not about whose place it is, it's about whose sideline it it.

Have you seen a bigger facial in this long heated rivalry. BYU's pride and arrogance gets the best of them and they come up with some lame "Quest for Perfection" quote. Nice job Whit on being humble and enduring all the mindless Cougar talk at the beginning of the season. Utes showed how to walk the walk, not just talk the talk, which is BYU's specialty, always has been.

Max Hall always seems to falter in BIG moments and yesterday was no exception. Thanks Maxie.

The ONLY "playas" for BYU was Unga and Collie but that has been the case all year. BYU defense continues to be a liability because it relies on the strength of fireside speakers rather than football players.

Congrats Utes, to the victor the spoils!!!!

Big Props to Whit for humbly showing those in Provo how men of dignity and class win. Action not talk-best of luck Utes!!!!

I'd love to see the following happen:

Big 12:

Finish the season with a 3-way tie in the Big 12 South, and have Texas go the championship, leaving OK and TT upset.

Missouri loses to Kansas (3-loss team) and then wins the Big 12 championship game.

SEC: Alabama loses to Auburn and then beats Florida, leaving Penn St, 'Bama, USC, TT, and OK (and the U) all with legitimate claims on a title match. (But wait, USC, OK and TT did not even win their conference championship!)

ACC: BC, GT, and FSU lose their last game leaving up to 7 teams with matching 8-4 records at the top--6 of which would have matching 5-3 records in conference play!

Big Least: Continue to knock each other out of the top 25.

BCS bowls: Dream scenario: All 5 games are absolute blowouts (to the tune of 59-0) with horrible matchups (not unlike USC v Illinois or Florida v Ohio St in the past).

There are only 2 options that are in the "Best interest of the BCS" when it comes to the Utes:

1. Completely overmatch them by having them play Florida or an SEC opponent. Not unlike last year with Hawaii, and hope for a blowout, proving that the BCS should only include 6 conferences (* and Notre Dame of course).

2. Have them play the Big East Champion (or ACC champ this year). Cincinnatti here we come! (The lowest possible ranked BCS team.) This would put the Utes in the everything-to-lose position. And a win would register a 2/10 on the "so-what" meter.

I'd love to see the MWC well-represented here, but I don't think that it would be...."in the best interest of the BCS."

That said, enjoy your 2 weeks of contentment.

Haka....Haka.....Haka.......Chooooo.

Gesundheit CUBERS.

Gee that felt good.

Thanks to the Utes for the great performance.

Thanks to the CUBERS for being the unwilling victim.

What an emotinal game. Loved it.

Bring on..............whomever.

U got to love it.................

BYU is the one fanbase in all of college football who has absolutly NO right to complain about running up the score.

penalty, you are why many Ute fans call your fans Zoobs.

If the BYU are going to show disrespect with that silly Haka dance before each and every game, they then shouldn't get bent out of shape when they get a reaction. They had a similar reaction by an Oregon player during a pep rally before the Las Vegas bowl aa few years ago too. If Bronco had any class at all he would put a stop to the Haka.

It is time to drop the Haka dance thing. It is seen as a taunt by other teams and has nothing to do with Utah or Mormon culture. Save the dance for the locker room if you need it to get pumped up. Doing it in someone else's stadium shows poor taste. Instead of treating the rest of us to continual lectures about your "higher standards" and superior "character", how about showing us a little by dropping this offensive practice.

Utah will win another BCS game if they get some lousy Big East or ACC team again. Utah, BYU, TCU, Air Fore and even UNLV could beat any team in the Big Least. I hope the BCS doesn't throw another cupcake at the Utes. Beating Pitt was no big accomplishment. They were horrible and a joke. I want to see the Utes get matched up against an SEC or Big 12 team and see how they manage.

I'm a Cougar fan and these BYU fans whining about the score should shut up. It was our team's job to stop Utah and we stunk.

Mr Ute fan, before you insult the Haka with your silly words, which reveal you as a racial bigot toward Pacific Island cultures you need to know that the "Haka" in its many forms are dear and honorable to many players on both teams. It is a reveranced form of respect to anothers foe, letting them know that they are here to stand bravely and will do all they can to be victors. Mr. Ute the game belongs to the players and is there individual contest, you are a mere spectator...

About the Haka, those who were not in attendance should know the disrespect really came was the fact they started during a Senior acknowledgment ceremony. BYU tried to disrespect the Utah seniors and during the game BYU showed no class with Max Hall acting like a brat during his interceptions or the end when the BYU players took swipes at Utah fans.

congrats to utah going to the bcs once again. byu will never make it.

congrats to byu on making your conquest to 3rd place in a mediocre conference and qualifying for the blue rug bowl.

If you little Kewgs want to do the Haka then do it in Provo or in the locker room. Don't be disrespecting our turf and do that silly dance. It looks like Hall choked again in a big game just like he did against TCU. Don't blame the coaches. Hall is not that good of a QB. He has no leadership skills. If he did then he would have risen to the occasion in both games, but instead wound up embarrasing himself and so did the kewgs matador defense. BYU was completely over-rated this season. No wonder Washington should have beaten them, not "upset" them.