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Utah Utes football: Sugar high 13-0 Utes roll over one of the BCS' best
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Utah is the National Champion! Way to do us proud! To the team, "Sweet game plan, excellent execution, and superb statement!" Yeessssss...
The Utes are a great team.
They aren't the #1 in the nation.
USC has the speed to stay with them and the size to over power them.
But congrats to the Utes for making Saban nearly have an anurism on the sideline. What a pathetic little tirant he seems to be. Even his assistant coaches seemed reluctant to approach him during the game.
The Utes on the other hand were more of a class act.
Their coaches were 100% and most the players were.
Good job Utes.
And by the way. In 1984 the Univ of Washington was the REAL #1 team in the nation regardless how the rankings worked back then.
I've had fun teasing my BYU friends for 24 years about it....
cry me a river byu.
You know it. Don't deny it.
Florida, Oklahoma, Texas DOES NOT want to play Utah.
I hope you and your whole staff watched this game to learn how to coach.
GET ON BOARD OR GET OUT OF THE WAY.
To all of the Utah fans who have shown themselves to be gracious winners: CONGRATULATIONS!
To all of the BYU fans who are such sore losers that they can't give credit where credit is due: SHAME ON YOU!
To all of the Utah fans who are too arrogant to accept sincere congratulations: no matter how successful your team is, you'll always be LOSERS!
To USC fan: keep your smack to yourself; the Trojans couldn't even beat Oregon State.
Bring on the playoffs!
An undefeated season, and wins over FOUR Top 25 teams is proof positive that Utah has accomplished more than any other team this season and deserves the National Championship!
To the Ute players and coaches, congrats on a great game and great year.
To Paul "Bear" Bryant, who may be turning over in his grave tonight.
To next year. Hoping that we can repeat the same excitement that we enjoyed this year.
And to the Ute recruites, welcome to one of the best programs in the nation.
Let's ignore the negative posts and take note of the great sportsmanship being exhibited by the BYU fans. The day will come when we Utes will have the opportunity to congratulate the Cougars. I hope we can do it with as much class as BYU fans are showing here tonight.
Congratulations to the MWC!!!!!!!!
It was the "greatest" win in Utah's football history. I was here in NO at the game. Alabama didn't know what hit them. The entire south was confident that Alabama would win.
The atmosphere at the game was unbelievable. After the game 'bama fans were gracious and admitted they got their butts kicked. Many comments here tonight like to downplay Utah's dominant performance, but even 'bama fans know better.
Utah dominated on defense and were superb on offense for all but one quarter. Kyle Wittingham doesn't need to live in Urban Meyer's shadow anymore.
Congrats to the UTES for fantastic season.
I think a sweet moment in my life was hearing Barry Switzer eating crow at half time. Something about inferring that there was not a single player on the Utah team that would have made the Alabama roster.
I hope the Utes can finally cut the cord with Urban Myer. Kyle Wittingham did more for the Utes this year than Urban did. Way to go Kyle, Way to go Utes! It's a shame that Utah can't play for a national title. I think they deserve the opportunity
Logic demands: if a team has not been beaten, you cannot know how good they really are.
BYU grad / BYU fan
Thanks Coach Witt for leading the UTES to a great win and THANKS FOR PICKING THE UTES OVER THE COUGARS to be a head coach.
GO UTES!
Unfortunately this won't change anything with the corrupt NCAA and the cowardly, corrupt University presidents who run the BCS. Utah beat 4 ranked teams this year; you tell me why they shouldn't be #1!
By the way, can't someone finally acknowledge that the Big 10 is a total joke when it comes to football? Year in and year out they get creamed in bowl games which proves they are no good.
The only danger is to get bought off by a place at the table. The BCS sucks just as much if the MWC gets invited, and we shouldn't be happy with anything less than a playoff.
It will have to happen eventually. One of the reasons that non-BCS schools do well in BCS games, I think, is because those games actually MEAN something to them. For the BCS schools the only one that matters is the NC game - everything else is window dressing. Who remembers the other teams in the non-NC 2004 BCS games? Utah's the only one anyone remembers, because the Ute game was the only one that really mattered.
...And for everyone crying about '84 - leave the past in the past. TCU has won more national championships than your guys, do you ever hear their fans go on and on about the distant past? You're embarrassing yourselves.
Utah is UNDERRATED.
BYU fan was very classy tonite.
Thank you Utes.
Utah dominated every aspect of the game except special teams and that was a draw since Utah had a fumble and gave up a return but Bama missed two field goals. I looked at the rosters and on paper Utah was every bit as athletic but on the field the Utes showed they were better in every way. Saban got the trophy but Whit showed he has everything Tricky Nick does. The Utes and Cougs struggled with MWC teams and I think the right way to look at that is the MWC is sorely underrated not the other way around. When we bicker amongst ourselves the so called "Big Boys" win
Go MWC !!!!!!!!!
Most of the faculty and team or anti-mormon and quite classless. However, they did win. I can say this as I am a graduate of both schools and have seen the blatant bias and intolerance as well as classlessness (i.e. just try to sit at the ute stadium and vote for the other team and not be hit with beer or beer bottles)
So, here is to the Utes and fostering a better student body and fan base and team behavior to match the great play on the field.
What a fun night!!
GO UTES!!!
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A great season to remember!!!!
UTAH 31 (mid-major)
ALAB 17 (major???)