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Utah Utes football: Team routs Rebels with big 2nd half
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The UTES were awesome in all phases of the game in the second half. GO UTES!!!!
Everyone will agree it was a rough start for our offense. Gotta love the D though. It makes me happy to hear the BYU fans upset about their offense. Our great D + their poor offense bodes well for us.
Go Blue!
Go Blue!
Go Blue!
Kruger and Misi were awesome. Entertaining football.
Go Irish, Go Utes. Be humble BYU fans you're not that great.
You'll need your ref friends again in November if you want to beat the Utes!
Utah needs to figure out how to play 4 quarters.
BYU needs to figure out how to put non-conference teams away on the road.
Both teams have work today if November 22nd is going to mean anything. Too bad no one else can challenge for a conference title (TCU?).
BYU soft? the cougars were pounding the huskies... sending them to the sidelines and local hospitals. Just keep talkin' the smack Utes... it's all you've got, you haven't been able to back it up on the football field the last few years. But please keep winning! We don't want the PAC-10 teams to keep saying we play a bunch of cupcakes.
And if you did not see it on tv, go to You Tube and watch the ball fly 20 feet in the air. Do a search on 'byu vs Washington'.
Does he have no class.
And boy, does UNLV have your number.
5 straight quarter scoreless.
Utah need to watch out for tough teams this year,
Why do you yewte fans give BYU so much crap about there schedule so far when you guys beat a terrible BCS team in the most overrated BCS conferance in the NCAA by 2 points and you got plenty of calls to go your way in that game as well. Then you beat Las Vegas community college by 21 NIU would probally beat UNLV by that number at least or more.
You Ute fans are a joke when you are 2-0 all of you guys are wearing that ugly red stuff all over but at the end of the season when your team is 7-5 most of you wont be caught dead in those ugly colors!!
The Utes on the losing side vs BYU? Yeah, the last two years on phantom calls and hail Marys. Before that, it was all Utah for about 10 years. And before that, who cares?
Bottom line - BYU has shown me nothing so far this year. So don't start popping off about how great you are.
They just don't get the BIG picture..the better Utah and BYU play and win then everyone wins ! The two schools will get all that more press ,cnational exposure, and better recruits.
Talk of BCS right now doesn't belong in the state of Utah. Only one non-BCS conference team will get that chance and unless the Zoobs fix the defense or the Utes find some measure of consistency it will be East Carolina or Fresno State going BSC bowling. From sunny SoCal, both of those teams look much better than the Beehive state prospects.
Did anyone notice BRIAN JOHNSON'S shoulder looking like he reinjured it the last series he played? I thought so.
GO UTES!
PS
BYU makes me sick. To you Blue fans If you are so good why does it always take a "Miracle" play (and poorly judged calls)to win games against other decent teams? Number 15? now that is truly a stretch.
Sleepy, weak first half. It was nice to see us start throwing the ball in the second half and put it 21 points nice and quick. And it was nice to get Johnson back as a pass and run threat, that really will open things up for an already quick offense. This team should be fun to watch!
Utah eeeeeeeked out a win in the Big House and that is 100% due to the fact that Michigan's defense took a half to start the season. If the second half defense of Michigan shows up the first half, Utah would NOT have walked away with a win. As an avid big 10 fan, Michigan will not, I repeat will not finish in the top 2/3 of the Big 10 and they have a REAL chance to finish close to the cellar. Indiana, Illinois, Northwestern and Purdue all look better not to mention OSU, Penn ST, Mich St, Iowa who will roll the Wolverines. Michigan could be hanging with Minnesota come December in the cold hard bottom cellar of the Big 10. Enjoy your win Utes but don't overestimate your accomplishments, the season is still young. You caught a storied program at its 50 year low....
"Well he broke his neck but we won so who cares". Pitifull.
Fortunately the BYU team doesn't think likewise and the BYU player involved in the accident was yelling for help for him immediately...why? Because they are athletes and they know the damage done by injury and a missed season and altered life.
You are not a real football fan you are an "only BYU fan" and believe that an injury is OK as long as it means a win.
Take a good hard look at yourself and realize what is a game and what is life. Sickening. Try to have some class like the teams have. Not like the feverish fans.
Our boys are coming along nicely, I'd say.
Go Utes!
Big-10 writers say this is the worst Michigan team in 40 years? Do you mean Michigan fans on blogs? Where are your facts to back up your claims? I loved your UM defensive observation too. They didn't show up in the first half? You really think the UM D, which waited seven months for the season to begin, persevered through spring drills, summer weightlifting and fall camp just decided to conciously lay it down for the first half of the season? I guess for some ignorance is bliss, keep it up, man.
Re: banwagon fans-
Plenty of calls went the Utes way in the Michigan game? Please, tell me, of the 15 penalties called on Utah for over 120 yards, which of those were meant to go their way?
This game they played proves they will not being going to the BCS this year. What a superior team they are when they can only beat washington and utah state on the road. ECU are the real BCS busters so far.
HEY BYU YOUR SECONDARY GOT LIT UP BY A MEDIOCORE TEAM THAT LOST TO NO. 18 OREGON 44-10, AND YOUR RANKED 15 SO DOES THAT MEAN OREGON WOULD CRUSH YOU AS WELL BECAUSE THE LACK OF THE DEFENSIVE SECONDARY?
GO UTES
Docker said it best in the Seattle paper this morning: "the refs don't lose games for us, we lose games".
So far, both U and Y have beaten one non conference unranked team by a slim margin and beaten a patsy but not without mistakes.
I just wish Utah fans would get half as excited for Utah as they do in their hatred of BYU. You guys ought to be ashamed at the lack of support for a decent program.
I'm glad I'm not a BYU fan. My heart couldn't take it. (My Utes have given me enough heart trouble as it is).
Sooner or later their, (The Y), luck will run out. Maybe against UCLA next weak. (Sorry, I slipped. I was thinking about the Y's defense).
That SoCal dude is right about Fresno and East CaroLina.
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