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Utah Utes football: Fans just want close Sugar Bowl

While a close loss would be better than a blowout loss, I'll be disappointed in anything other than a W. Hopefully the Utes feel the same way.

The Utes are not Hawaii and they are not BYU. They are a quick, physical team that can win this game if they play well. Go Utes!!

Actually, the Stingers are NOT a "team that didn't make it." They just got rebranded.

Also, the Warriors got bought by Garff to clear the way for the Blaze.

And the Golden Eagles were a very successful club who had diminished returns when the Jazz started being successful, and then dies a painful death when Larry Miller bought them and moved them into his new arena with bad sightlines.

Huh? Last time I checked North Carolina and Miami were both in the ACC and since both LOST their bowl games how can the ACC be 2-0? Am I missing something here?

I don't want a close game, I want blowout! I want all utes fans to realize they wasted their money attending the game, after the first quarter of play.

From a BYU fan, Roll Tide!

Coming from someone who wasted their money on a T-shirt promoting the world's lamest, most tacky and corny piece of propaganda (AKA, 'The Quest')...what you say you 'want' is pretty ridiculous. Though, I'm sure the $20 you splurged on Vegas was well worth the trip.

Crush the Utes? Are you nuts? It is in BYU's favor if the Utes demolish Alabama. Not only does it make BYU's loss to them less hurtful, but it makes a mockery of the BCS "championship" game where two one loss teams are playing.

I say, "Go Utes! Totally embarrass Alabama and the BCS!"

re:Crush the utes- spoke by a true sedentary and deficient cougar fan.

You "Y" and Yewts have been running your mouths all year about how great you are, well now it's time to put up, or if I think what is about to happen-SHUT UP! I gave the 10 points and didn't think twice about making a LARGE wager. No excuses or whinning after this fiasco is over PLEASE!

should switch their affiliation over to utah. This will save them the embarassment of covering a losing school like BYU. They won't have to pretend to be BYU homers either.

That's all the fans should hope for...

Bronco is a better Coach? I have no idea what your on, but it is not on the Game of Football. Bronco needs to Grow some Stones and have his Teams play more aggresive like Utah does. The Utes would Beat BYU 10 out of 10 Times if they played the Games. I wish that all the BYU Fans would at least cheer for a Mountain West Team that is in your Conference even though you don't like them when you Play them.

Really?!?! Our overrated, poorly recruited, poorly coached, weak skill players just hammered your "mighty" Cougars by THREE TOUCHDOWNS and you come on here and call us lucky?!

Wow!! I thought the smog problem had cleared up since they closed Geneva a few years back. Apparently not though - 'cause "Provo" can't see through his blue-tinted glasses past the end of his own nose.

Go Utes!!

So Bronco is a better coach but only uses 6 of his allotted 15 practices for the Arizona game, then gets it handed to him. Stop smokin' your blue doubies and wake up! The Y recruits better the Utah? So BYU got beat by worse recruits 48-24. That again shows the coach must be pretty bad if they have better players but lose that bad. Please show some semblance of intelligence in your posts. Your making all the other Y fans look bad.(not that they need much help!)

I don't know what fans you're talking to, but I for one want a WIN!! Alabama's a very good team, but they're not a SUPER team. It the Utes play to their potential, they will win, regardless of whether Alabama plays to their potential or not. Stuff the run and make Alabama try and beat the Utes with their passing game - Utes win!!

Are you serious with your arguments, are you keeping a straight face still even after you submitted your comment.

Get ready for a bad loss. Sorry Utes!

It might FEEL like a win though.

Any "fan" who doesn't pull for teams in his/her own conference against non conference foes is as blind as a mole. A Utah loss in the Sugar Bowl, especially a big one, damages any credibility the MWC has gained the past two years, validates the current BCS mess, and vaporizes any/all victories the Utes had this year.

To be more specific, do you think Boise State had even a remote chance of being invited to a BCS bowl game after what WAC member Hawaii did last year?? Guilt by association is not fair, but it is common. If the powers that be even discussed inviting the Broncos to a game it was because they beat OK a couple of years ago.

A Ute victory, though distasteful to narrow minded "fans" of other teams, is a victory for everyone in the MWC and other non BCS conferences and another step in dismantling the BCS powers.

Go Utes, go MWC!

You go to win or you don't go at all!

And I'll actually be at the game pulling for the Utes. Anytime a Ute win doesn't hurt the Cougs' chances of winning the conference you gotta pull for them, especially non-conference games. Makes the state and MWC look that much better.

Go Utes, from a True Blue Cougar Fan