Yeah, look at what happened to Texas State once UTSA got film on them. Lost 20-13! Shows you how bad Baylor played that game, but their (Texas State) throw game caught Baylor by surprise. Teams will get film on Nate throwing and will take away what he is comfortably with. Then we’ll find out what we have there.
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I think he plays like a couple series. You don’t want him rusty for the UCLA game, which is now a ranked vs ranked matchup
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I was wrong. The Pac-12 has EIGHT ranked teams in the latest AP Top 25. UCLA ALSO made it in @ #24. That’s @ least SIX ranked vs. ranked matchups on Utah’s schedule (@ OSU, USC, and Washington; home vs. UCLA, Oregon, and Colorado). Couple that with the fact that Utah is one of two teams in the country who have played two P5 opponents so far (17th most difficult schedule in the country according to Jeff Sagarin’s computer rankings btw), Utah might just have the most difficult schedule in the entire country this year.
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Hopefully Nate embraces the challenge of success: expand your portfolio!
Once Cam is back, the job for Nate gets a bit different, tougher in some ways. How to absorb the gameplan, get the most out of your reps in practice, and be ready to step in, if need be.
Bryson has done an admirable job in that role. What he did at Wazzu last year really sets the standard. No time to alter the game plan. Maybe take a few plays off the table, the play calling changes, but of the 50-70 plays practiced for that week, how much can QB2 do?
There won’t be time to create a full game plan for Nate, to fully prep with his skillset. It will be more about how much of the gameplan set for Rising can Nate execute, +/- 10%.
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Why would Baylor let the Utes score a TD with around 20 seconds? I mean, then they are guaranteed to be down a score. If they force the Utes to try a FG, there is only about 90% chance the kicker makes it.
Seems like the odds they played were the wrong ones.
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I actually don’t think Glover meant to score. Looked like he was trying to down it on the half yard line and got pushed into the end zone by the Baylor defender.
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I started going when UF.N was in deep disaray and barely functional. But I never like the vibe. Everything changes; nothing is real, but I very much enjoy the humor and collegiality here.
Go Utefans.
Gi UTES!!
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Was just watching highlights of the game and noticed something. The PAT snap of our penultimate TD was way to the right of the holder, Bouwmeester; he did a fantastic job of catching the ball and placing it. That could have been a disaster.
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Wow. Bouwmeester had to grab the ball up by the right side of his helmet and get it down in a split second.
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Just watched the final play, Lander was coming at Robertson, full speed–and just one step away–when Robertson had to let fly with a floater to the end zone. (See about 22:26 of this clip). So Lander was a key part of the two crucial defensive plays of the game.
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Man it must have been absolutely brutal in that heat… I woulda been positively dying.
This image of Nate scoring the tying TD was the one that really struck me. Almost reminds me of 2020 when schools were only letting players’ families in due to Covid.
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I started going when UF.N was in deep disaray and barely functional. But I never liked the vibe. Everything changes; nothing is real. I very much enjoy the humor and collegiality here. Go Utefans Go UTES!!!
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In fairness, that photo is near the end of the game, and looking toward the far end zone, but yeah, even under the circumstances I just outlined, and even on a REALLY HOT day against a REALLY no-name underdog opponent, the North or South endzones at RES would look nothing like that.
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Even back in the day…
Then again the east and west stands, sans the student section, could turn into ghost towns.
The last non-Covid season with that kind of open space in the stands was 2002 vs UNLV, Mac’s last year. I was really angry at Ute fans for not supporting the students who lay it out on the field.
A couple of weeks later the fans showed up for the BYU game, then lamented what happened to Mac.
It’s been a magic carpet ride ever since.
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My nephew was at the game. Only Utah fan in his group of HS friends that went to Baylor (he graduated in 3 years and has a job in Dallas now). They all lasted until the 13-13 tie (could leave amicably), then went to find water because they couldn’t handle any more heat. It was brutal and oppressive according to him. And he was in the stands - the field was even hotter.
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One thing I notice as stands came into the picture, is that you could see people just above the shade line, and none below. Probably made the attendance look worse than it was.
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Perception is fans tried to pack into shaded areas as temps were brutal. I was at a packed Rose Bowl at a 1994 World Cup match that had a noon start time in middle of summer. Hot day and I drank a jumbo diet Coke during the match, filled the cup from a faucet at the golf course parking lot after the game, bought and consumed a quart of Gatorade on the way back to the airport. Never had to pee all night. Half time saw a women suffering from the heat being attended to by EMTs who were pouring water on her and she collapsed. Scary.
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This is all making me want to go slam a gallon of gatorade. Sounds like the heat was just brutal.
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Good call - in the picture you can see a higher density of people in the shaded areas. But some had passed out or left … Or people retreated to concourses. One of those times when moving up in seats happens instead of moving down.
I had tickets at UT for a few years in grad school and September games sucked. You knew you were going to be hot and sweaty. Matthew McConaughey was in a box above me in the last row of the lower bowl once I think he dripped some of his nasty sweat on me.