Comments about ‘Utah Utes football: Forget BCS; U. is No. 1 for Utahns’

"It is the best team that ever was in Utah."
The Utes rock.

My hat's off to the Utes...great game plan and outstanding execution by the team. Superb year for the entire conference. Utes deserve to be #1 for their season's accomplishments...

I'll go to my grave a Cougar...but I could't be happier for the Utes right now...again...congrats on a great season.

The 2008 University of Utah football team is class - class with excellence. Coach Whit sets a great example and the team has followed perfectly. Congratulations to the team, the school and the State of Utah! Go UTES!!

The reason that there is a BCS at all is because a NON BCS conference team won the national championship in the past and the big conferences could not stand it.....thus they put together as system that essentially said, "never again" is a non BCS team going to be national champion. And they have succeeded.

The Utes did what no other can claim.....which ever team is crowned national champions they still were not the undefeated team.

As Johnson said "what else do we have to do"

The current system is set up by the powerful for the powerful. In business we call it a monopoly, it violates the antitrust laws currently on the books and until the law gets involved there will be no changes.

This was not the best team ever in the state of Utah. This was a good team that didn't get a chance to lose in a playoff.

Fanntastic Game for the Utes !
Utes, Utes get the recruits !
Everyone in the state and the MWC came out winners, and we keep koach Kyle. How sweeeet is that ?

Maybe excluding some teams from the national championship has to do with their erratic records. Utah's best teams (usually the U of U and BYU) are rarely consistently good year after year, unlike Alabama, Florida State, and Oklahoma etc.

The U had a good team this year. But luck has no place in the BCS standing. Wait about 10 years.

I believe the Utes should PUBLICALLY challenge the winner of the national championship FedEX game to a match. If they are turned down, they can say PUBICALLY that the winners are afraid of playing/losing to the Utes. If the challenge is accepted, the Utes can get what they want--a chance to REALLY be the top dogs in the country, OR to crash and burn, and be told a million times: "See, we told you you shouldn't be playing the Big Boys". Either way, the Utes would know what they are really capable of, and the rest of the country would know. It would but the whole matter to rest. Everybody (BCS included) would have to put up or shut up.

"The U had a good team this year. But luck has no place in the BCS standing."

Are you serious? What about pre-season rankings? If Utah was ranked in the top-15 prior to any games being played they would have a shot at the 1 or 2 spot.

Since BYU was ranked in the preseason that overrated team had a better chance at the title then the unranked Utah team.

I am continually amazed at Utah and the way they can get up for the big games and do what they need to do in the little ones (UNLV, UNM, etc.) I wish my beloved cougars could show a little more intesity and emotion for the big games. They treat Bowl games, or big conference games (TCU, Utah, etc.) like they are playing eastern washington. You can say it's not true, but I was at most home games this year, and it sure as H*** looked like it. Not all teams are created equally. Kyle has figured this out. That's why we needed collie on 4th and 18 last year. They get up for big games. As a former coach, you have to learn from other coaches. A coach who thinks he already knows it all will get left behind. Ask Joe Pa and La Velle. The sooner Bronco and Anae figure this out the better. Or are you going to leave it up to Austin Collie to try and rally the troops at half time.

Good job Utes. You did the job that my cougs couldnt.

When the final history of the BCS is written, it will be noted that the BCS came to be largely because of what BYU did in 1984 and ended, at least in part, because of what the University of Utah did in 2009.

From a BYU fan, Utah has the best football program in the state. Better than BYU. Look at the number of new head coaches that the U produces every couple of years. That only happens from great programs and the U has eclipsed the Y in football. Too bad the U doesn't have a 60000 seat stadium because they would fill it. The Y can't compete on a national level like the U simply because of the BYU honor code and the gap between the two is widening every year I believe. Bronco just can't get the same caliber of athlete as the U or TCU and I think this win for the U will make that gap between the two programs even wider going forward. Another thing this win for the U does is add prestige to the university on a national level both athletically and academically. The "Utah" name is bigger today because of this win.

The Utes are. The BCS system needs to be thrown out. It's garbage. Maybe the non-BCS conferences should have their own playoff system, not invite anyone from the BCS conferences and determine their own national champion. I think a lot more people would watch college football playoffs, even if the non-BCS teams are not included. Until the BCS is thrown out, the non-BCS teams should have their own playoffs and not accept any bowl invitations to play BCS teams. Instead of fighting the BCS every year, let's just create another system for non-BCS teams.

The Utes are every bit as much #1 this year as the cougs were in 84'.
Without the BCS I may have turned out as such. Who cares, they're #1 to all of us.
Way to go big RED!

Im a die hard BYU fan, But way to go UTAH. It appears the BCS is a lot like the Electoral College. Neither make alot of sense.

"I may go to my grave as a Cougar, but surely be resurrected as a Ute."

This is a team that doesn't care about "labels," otherwise they would have been defined by rhetoric that never gave them a chance.

Integrity is Integrity; and Integrity knows whose best--and this year in collegiate football with integrity the Utah Utes become the very definition of "Champion."

From a TCU fan: GREAT GAME! GREAT TEAM! I am proud of your awesome accomplishments! You have made history that hopefully will make a way for changes in the flawed BCS system. Enjoy this great moment!! We look forward to playing you next year!!

Can I do an 'I told you so'?

For a few years now I have heard my Ute buddies mock the way BYU won the national championship in 1984. We beat a 16th ranked Michigan team and then had to play politics, having had a perfect season. We were not allowed into the national championship game and could only 'play the teams on our schedule' I think were coach Witt's words. We did everything we could, to include beating a #2 ranked Pittsburgh team at the beginning of the year. In the end, we got the national championship by default, and thus was born the BCS.

Now you are in the exact same position, maybe better in one regard: You beat a solid #4 ranked Alabama, not #16 Michigan. Now you have to just have to hope and pray. Sadly, you can't do anything more than beat every team on your schedule.

BYU's national championship in 1984 is every bit as legitimate as your claim this year. I hope you get it but know that it is HIGHLY unlikely. Even though you throttled an Alabama team in a more convincing manner than Flordia did.

Let's hope for the AP.

If either team wins NC, it will be with an asterisk (*):

(*): In 2008, University of Utah football team finished 13-0, beating 4 top-25 ranked team including #1-ranked most of the regular season Alabama 31-17 in Sugar Bowl. According to a football fan from ESPN, 66% agreed Utah should be named National Champion.

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