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Utah Utes football: Antsy Utes finally about to find out fate
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In fact, I would put several teams ahead of the 1984 BYU team on the "best opponent Utah has faced" list, including other BYU teams - 1980 and 1985 for example.
6-5 Michigan team. Plus, don't forget about BYU's lucky last second win over unranked Hawaii that same year. Mythical National champion? Yes. Best opponent Utah has ever faced? Far from it. Sounds like you are suffering from a bad case of revisionist history. Enjoy 7-5 unranked Arizona in the Vegas bowl while Utah goes to its second BCS bowl in 4 years. The BCS is a long way from you.
guess what?? We don't want your "good lucks" nor do you deserve to cheer for Utah! I know you want to live a bcs game vicariously through the U, but you can't!
48-24!!!! Go play your "espn 2 whatever bowl in vegas" and be quiet and design a even worse t shirt for next year..
Ouch! Sick burn
After the way you played against UM, OSU, TCU, UNM, BYU, you get against a real team...
You are soooo way out of your league.
I mean, we could be looking at potentially a 50-70 point blowout.
I mean, this could be the worst in college football history, leaving Hawaii to say that they at least kept it respectful.
Has a college football team ever scored over 100 points in a bowl game before?
Andy Ludwig will never, ever, in no way be ready for what the utes are about to do.
Otherwise, BCS 2009 could be a really, really, really, really bad experience for the Utes.
Go Utes!
The BCS didn't exist back then, and if it had BYU would not have been National Champs, they would be just like Utah this year -- playing in a lower tiered BCS game. So Ludwig's statement is fully legit.
Sadly, this is the match-up that Utah should have had back in 2004. That team lead by Alex Smith stood to beat any team possible this year, which is to say 2008 isn't as strong as 2004. In any case, I'm a diehard BYU fan rooting for the Utes.
Now to see if BYU plays freak'n Bodiddly State in the Vegas Bowl...again! Oh freak'n vey!!!!
If Alabama takes the Utes lightly this could open the door for a nice win!!
That said, I wasn't very impressed with the Utes game offensively against BYU (the only game I saw of theirs this year) and I hope that they have more firepower than that. Their defense looks like it can play well, but is a bit on the small side.
Go MWC and Go Utes!!
Fortunately, it's been so long since that championship game that none of the Zoobs remember that Michigan was 6-5 and had they won the game (which they almost did if not for someone living right), they would not have been crowned champs. That's because the system was even more screwed up then than it is now. It wasn't even a national championship game. It just turned out that way because nobody else would accept the invitation to a crappy little bowl. Now, had they played a real opponent...
Any Bowl Opponent - A whole lot more
After watching the game last night, they looked really good. Hope the Utes can get up for this one.
A trip to New Orleans sounds like fun!
The competition is much harder today, especially for the non-BCS teams. This makes what Utah has accomplished this season that much for significant. But, as in 2004, Utah is playing again not only for itself, but also for the 5 non-BCS conferences. And the quality of the Utes' opponent? Either a team that has been ranked #1 for the past several weeks (Alabama), or a team that is hurting for being shafted out of the title game itself (Texas). Both of those two teams are two of the top five teams out of all of the 119 in Division 1 football.
No, Andy Ludwig knew exactly what he was saying, and he is absolutely accurate. To have mentioned the 1984 BYU team would have been an embarrassment, as that team was not 1/10th as good as the team the Utes will face this year.
BYU fan needs to wake up and realize that as well and quit living in 1984. What has the team done in the last decade? Answer - Nothing!
Utah gets a chance for to make people remember this BCS bowl - if they win; which won't happen. Sorry your Fiesta Bowl was forgetten because of your lame opponent. After this year the Utes will be 1-1 in BCS games that no one outside Utah remembers while Boise State will continue to be the poster child for BCS success and the favorite to be back next year after being the only undeafeated team in the country - Go Broncos!
GO UTES and yes Good Luck to us!
Here is the first clue, BYU won the become "national champion" by barely beating a 6-win team in a bowl nobody watched. Utah's opponent will be a 10 or 11 win team on prime time television.
Here is the second clue, BYU did not beat a single team that finished in the top-20. Utah's opponent will have beaten 3 or more ranked teams, including beating a formerly ranked #1 team.
So, unlike some of the plays he calls, I agree with Ludwig, this will be the best opponent Utah has ever played.
Prepare well Utah. Go Utes.
No doubt BYU deserved to win the national champtionship. They were the only undefeated team in College Football. That being said, does not mean they were the best team in college football. If this year were 1984, Boise State would be playing Utah for the national championship. How much sense does that make? About as much sense as BYU winning the national title in 1984.
The game will not be in Rice-Eccles Stadium but on the SEC's home turf.
Your defense will probably give up over 400 yards of offense just as it did to Oregon State, TCU and BYU.
Alabama's kicker will probably not miss two chip-shot field goals which lose the game.
John Parker Wilson will probably not throw three gift interceptions in the fourth quarter.
Nick Saban will probably not allow his team to play so listlessly to allow Brian Johnson to engineer a miracle comeback.
In short, your lucky run is over. Alabama is a much better team and unless the Utes play a perfect game they're going to be on the receiving end of a Hawaii-style beatdown.
I realize that the best thing in the long run for the Mountain West Conference is to have Utah win. But I can't help but look forward to Ute fans making excuses here as to why they got beaten like a rented red-headed step mule.
anybody alive at the time knows that
I attended both schools, and so can cheer for both without any problem. But think, "No Way" (or does your title already suggest that you can't??). For you to actually say: "The worst team in the NCAA would crush your 84 BYU team." doesn't just suggest your over-enthusiasm for our Utes, but rather showcases your inability to have any concept whatsoever of rational thinking. Hello? Earth calling? Is anybody home? Does No Way even have a brain? No Way!
Or this second gem: "Good Luck BYU, I hope you can cope with being 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th for the next 100+ years." Gee, No Way--- which of these two great schools has finished FIRST 2 of the last 3 years? Hello?
I'm a Ute fan too, but you embarrass us all by your intense need to berate others with such irrational and downright stupid diatribe (that's the polite word for it). Think about it, my friend...or does your title eliminate that possibility, too?
Okay, Hawai, errr Utah - onto your bowl game - and don't "lay an egg" because all of the worl, err, Salt Lake City cares about this game and is watching you.
Still can't get away from the little brother syndrome, can you? BYU has somehting you will NEVER have and it really bugs you, doesn't it?
Enjoy getting slaughtered by whomever you play!
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