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What others are saying: Utah is the national champion

I have always loved Rick Reilly and now I truly know why!

Right On!

Those Utes are the champs!

Anyone else 13-0?

Get over yourselves Utah fans, ain't gonna happen no matter how much you whine and cry.

Judging by some of the moronic comments directed at Utes fans lately, you'd think it was only whining Ute fans who felt this way! Apparently, complaining about the FRAUD that is the BCS "Championship" isn't just a whiny Ute fan thing.

Wow, and some of you thought you were so clever with your put downs...

Doesn't matter to me if it is Utah or Oklahoma, cuz my BYU Cougars are gonna beat them both next year. Go Cougars!!!

And Congrats to the Utes on a perfect, undefeated season!

Rick is trying to make the point that the BCS is stupid - and he is right. However, go ask teams in the Pac 10 or the SouthEast conference if Utah is the best in the land and both players and coaches alike will laugh. Look people, Utah had a great win against Alabama but the best in the land?? Come on. TCU had them on the ropes and ended up beating themselves. The Oregon State game should have gone to OSU with a little bit of clock management. Utah also benefited from a great HOME season with OSU, TCU and BYU all at home. Utah plays in the MWC and the ONLY way to suggest that a team from the MWC is the best is to have a playoff. It is much easier for Utah to get 10+ wins than a team in the Pac 10 or South East conferences and that is why Utah can't be seriously considered to be the best in the land.

If Oklahoma wins tonight, we should look at the commomn opponet between Utah and Oklahoma. They both played TCU at their own home field. Oklahoma destroyed TCU 35-10 and Utah won by Tcu missing 2 chip shot field goals. If Oklahoma wins they will have beaten 6 ranked teams, that would 2 more than Utah. I would say Oklahoma is the better team and should be National Champs. If Florida wins, Utah should be co national champ with Florida they both beat Alabama by about the same margin.

From a full time BYU fan: I don't know if Utah could beat Florida, Oklahoma, or Texas. I say they give the championship to Utah and make the "Big Boys" wish they could have a playoff because THEY didn't get to prove it on the field. In fact, I say they rank non-BCS teams 1-15 at the first of the year and see if the BCS teams can work their way up the polls. I mean, they should have to prove they belong there every year right?

It ain't gonna happen because the whiney poll voters are afraid that Utah might actually win the BCS title game and then they couldn't use the "Alabama didn't really want to be there" excuse. And if Utah did win the BCS title game, they would use the "It was only one game" excuse.

The BCS cares only about who SHOULD win, not about who DOES win!

Way to go Utah! You deserve it!

So you're saying that a team that doesn't "dominate" their opponents every single game, but has a "decent" season, gets invited to March Madness and manages to win the NCAA Basketball Tournament, doesn't deserve to be crowned "National Champion" because some other team beat some other common opponent team by more points?

The point is... we'll never know who really is "National Champion" until there is an actual football playoff!

If florida wins they are the national champions yes the beat Bama by the same point margin Utah did BUT they did NOT have Percy Harvin who is the most EXPLOSIVE player in the NCAA. and either way Utah couldn't beat OU UF or bama again if they actually showed up to play the game. so top crying Ute fans be happy you got as far as you did.

RE BYU fan
BYU gets killed by OU next year 42-7

Hey silly....I am so tired of hearing "should have","what if", Utah was lucky to...etc. the fact is they WON. Oklahoma and Florida have each lost one. You can play the who's better game until your blue in the face. Until these teams face each other directly you will never know for sure who would win. The fact still remains that Utah was undefeated. Nobody else was. They are the rightful champs. Do I need to draw diagrams for you?

Thanks for your kind words about Oklahoma. They are a great team and if they show up tonight they will win. They sometimes have a habit of not showing up at bowl games. This year they have beaten so many teams by high scores and certainly hope they do that tonight. Go Oklahoma!!!!!!! I will be sitting on the edge of my seat. Should be a good game between OU/BYU next fall in Texas. I will be for BYU then. I thought Utah played a GREAT game against Alabama. Sure did enjoy that game!!!!!

I just started a Facebook group by the same name. Check it out.

Bring it on...can hardly wait for next year to put an end to the BYU fans that can't quit whining about the Sooners!

undefeated is undefeated twice the utes went in underdogs to a bowl twice they won big they just arent in as big a market as some other schools so the bcs just follows the money

it will be interesting to see what the AP voters will do. Given a lot of "unofficial" polling and responses at USAToday and elsewhere, I would not be surprised to see Utah end up #1 in the AP and #4 in the BCS polls tomorrow.

Utes are national champions in my book regardless. We'll paste Rick Reilly's trophy in one of the cases in the Huntsman Center.

Those "quest for perfection" t-shirts will be great now that we have actually achieved PERFECTION ! Hey BYU, could you dye those quest t-shirts you have to a beautiful crimson red and send up this way?

Utah is THE National Champion in my book.

Guess the state now has two teams with national championship titles

I agree that there should be some serious changes in the BSC. Boise got shut out a couple of years ago when they should have had the national championship as well.

The reality of how the money is all passed around to the 'big conferences' is wrong, but until there is an equality within the weight of the conference schedules, there isn't a way to balance the scales.

While we DO need some kind of playoff series, we need to remember who we are talking about here - college age KIDS who are also trying to get a degree in something besides underwater basketweaving...adding more games to their already full schedule might be a pretty heavy price to pay for a trophy.

It is a subject which requires some serious intervention in order to sort it out...

In the meantime, CONGRATULATIONS to the Utes. They have had a great season!