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Utah Utes football: Sugar high 13-0 Utes roll over one of the BCS' best
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" hope you are referring to this year only, because you would be correct. If you are referring to the totality of the programs, then you sir are a joke. BYU beat them and won the conference title the last two years prior to this."
Sir, lets look at the last 7 years can we. Ok, you can go back to 1984 now.
It's not Utah's fault that Anae chose to pass so much, but that ship has sailed, and will not coming back to port ever again. Utah won, 48-24, and no amount of wishing or "if only" hypothesizing will change the final score.
If you want to talk about "if only's" then go back and ask Ron McBride about his last year at the U. They were 3 plays from finishing 8-3 instead of 5-6, but Chris Hill still fired him.
How about a poster that says "1984 Has-Beens" and of course "Hall Throws Another Interception"
The following is representative of commentary by several national sportswriters (from a writer for Fox Sports):
"This isn't 1984 BYU; that Cougars team didn't beat anyone as good as the 2008 Oregon State team, much less a TCU or an Alabama. This isn't 2004 Utah or 1999 Marshall or 1998 Tulane. So where, really, should Utah be put in the final rankings? If you're going to say No. 1, no matter what happens in the BCS championship game, it's hard to argue."
As a BYU alum this is difficult to say, but I would have Utah at #1 if I had a vote in the polls. The BCS system needs to be broken permanently and that would help.
Again, congrats to Utah -- you did the MWC proud!
Get a life U of U fans
Anyway, BYU does have one National Championship to their credit, BUT, even Utah with zero national championships is still just one behind.
Is that dominance or what?
It's easy to see why they dominated their league.The only national championships on record are for womens cross country, mens skiing,and men's volleyball.
Maybe they are starting a new trend, but until football teams from the MWC can consistently play with real leagues, maybe they shouldn't act like high school kids when they actually win a big game.After you have played a few years you will know that all teams, no matter how good,have bad days.When you play a team who has nothing to gain from playing you, and who's last game was for a chance to play for the national championship,then maybe it can still be a big win but probably not.
Utah played a good game,but answer me this. Would you have had the same intensity if you were playing Mississippi State.If Bama was so overrated, as some of you are saying, then why is it such a big win?
I applaud you Crimson and White spirit (we had it first)but wake up and smell the Tradition.
Who's your Daddy????
hahahhahahah
I applaud you Red and White spirit (we've got it now) ...and if losing is your "tradition", then you got it goin' on Tide. Don't it smell good???
Just grow up, get off your high horse and say "well done Utah". All the silliness about "wouda,couda,shouda" is nonsense. People like you just cause hard feelings between everybody. It is what it is, a Utah win.
WELL DONE UTAH!!
The 84 era is dead please tell us exactly what has BYU done in the BCS era? What have they won? What major bowl games? What ranked teams?
Little brother is shinning while big brother has faded living in the shadow of little brother and using past glory days as proof as why they are still relevant.
Go UTES!!!
BYUCoug 4:04 | 11:42 p.m. Jan. 3, 2009
It's the 1984 BYU NC that created the BCS. Nobody could believe that a second rate nobody could be crowned NC just because their toughest team was St. Mary's Girls school and then went undefeated. Everyone in the college football arena puts an asterisk next to the BYU NC because of that. BYU has still never beat a high caliber college team. BYU could never compete with the top ten team (I'm talking a team that finishes in the top ten). Utah has done it and won in two BSC bowl games in just the last four years.
I think Utah should be the AP National Champions. I have heard the same thing many times over here from fans of a lot of different teams. The U earned a lot of respect with this win, National Championship or not.
U of U class of '96
What, go undefeated? Because that's the only thing 1984 team did. Can you remind me again what the 1984 team achieved on the field that the 2004 and 2008 team did not?
Beating a ranked team? Oh wait you didn't in 1984 and in your Quest for Perfection season 2008. Utah beat #19 Pitt in 2004 and #4 Bama in 2008.
USC might end up being ranked higher but one thing for sure we beat OSU and they couldn't.
We pride ourselves one being one of the very best programs in the history of College Football. Class, Pride, and Tradition are part of out heritage..and ot looks like it is part of your as well.
Again - comgratulations on a well desreved victory. Roll Tide!
Take that Alabama! I bet you guys can't even spell Alabama!
WOOHOOO!!!!
UTES ALL THE WAY!!
If you're worried about hard feelings,maybe you should read some of the crap Utah fans have put in this forum.As far as tradition goes,Urban Meyers left your little Indian Village to come to the SEC so he could, in his words, "Have an opportunity to play for a national championship"
Go to the SEC website and check the number of national championships owned by the SEC.(in football not womens cross country)
Oh and while you're there,check and see which school has won the most national championships in NCAA history.I know you get excited about your team, that's what good fans do, but don't confuse one good season in an upstart conference, with being a national power. Maybe someday you can move into a real football conference ,where going undefeated will actually mean something.
I hope we can meet again when we actually give a rip about playing you. If it's anytime soon, the way you guys have run your mouths will give us plenty to get fired up about. ROLL TIDE-- 12 NATIONAL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHPS (YOU GET THOSE FROM WINNING!)
I can only assume that "Coug AZ" was born after 2004, because we HAVE been there before - undefeated, BCS Bowl Crashers - the whole thing.
And why wouldn't we be ranked higher than USC? They played a softer schedule, an easier bowl opponent (who, by the way, had a TERRIBLE game), and finished with one loss to Oregon State, who Utah beat. Give me a good reason why USC should be ranked higher than Utah?
When Utah destroys Alabama, all we hear is what a terrible game Bama played. When USC beats Penn State (the Lions played WELL below their average as was noted a zillion times by the announcers), it's said that USC manhandled them. No respect.
New Mexico would have beat them as easy as Utah.
Utah thrashed #4.
If Texas is ranked higher than the Utes when all is said and done, we can only conclude that the voters simply aren't watching the games. Robots.
Besides focusing on the distant past, this is the equivalent of saying "neener, neener neener, I have brown eyes, and you never will." Taunting someone for something beyond their control is the epitome of childish logic. The Utes have molded themselves into a chiseled, well-conditioned athlete, who just set a world record in a demanding race - excelling in everything under their control - but the "you'll never have brown eyes" taunt continues.
Such an accusation says more about the intellectual capacity, maturity and character of the accuser than the ability, status or talent of the accused.
That's how I see it.
"Alabama Football, where we try sometimes!" Or, "Alabama football, as useful as the cinderblocks holding up our car!"
I would be embarrassed to think what you just wrote.
BYU was a joke. Their 24-17 win over a weak 6-5 Michigan team in the Holiday Bowl remains a joke to this day.
- The loser of Thursday's game has 2 losses, so they're out
- # Texas has one loss and barely beat #10. True, they beat four "Top 25" teams this year, but so did Utah. UT cannot be number one.
- #5 USC beat #8, but no worse than Utah beat #4. USC has one loss - to a team Utah beat.
- Alabama was #4 going into the bowl season. They are clearly out.
The only fair and logical choice is for Utah and the winner of Thursday night's game to be deemed "co-champions."
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Really? If memory serves, BYU was in the cellar more recently than Utah - does the name Gary Crowton ring a bell? The last time we were in the cellar was before Ronnie Mac was coaching.