Utes - 31
The other beavers - 21
62-20
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Cristobal made a quick trip to Miami last week to visit his ill mother (wink). Joe Moorhead is more than likely leaving too.
Utah wins comfortably.
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Utah 2-0
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Utes 22 - 0regon - 0
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Unfinished business. Only one thing stands in the way of the Utes achieving what they originally set out to do over a year ago. Oregon.
Unfinished business. About two weeks ago, a somewhat wounded Utah team ā wounded in players killed or quitting before the season really began or in injuries all teams suffer ā rebuilt everything from the ground up after a 1-2 start. The offensive line in no way resembles what we saw in weeks 1, 2 and 3. The QB no longer resembles what we saw in weeks 1, 2 and 3. The defense no longer resembles what we saw in the first half of the season. ST has improved, and needs to improve more. This team wrapped in adversity has fought through early loses and found ways to improve, as their ācall to armsā dictates. 22% better. Every day. Every game.
Unfinished business. In RES Saturday before last a slightly favored Utah playing the highest ranked team in like forever, demolished that team on the gridiron in just about every way, shape and form. As a Duck fan who I did not know said last week when he saw my Utah sweatshirt, āWow, that Utah team owned the Ducks, no contest.ā It was that obvious.
Unfinished business. The Utes have been here before, in 2019, the final stats appear to be even, Oregon owned 11-1 Utah on the scoreboard, scoring in all four quarters. Utah coughed up the ball twice. In 2018, Washington dominated the game, Utahās stingy defense kept them in it. The Utes coughed up the ball once, a weird pick six and the only TD scored that day.
Unfinished business. Oregon will be the same team Utah played Saturday before last. Only smarter in that defeat about what Utah football is about. I believe this Utah team is a classic example of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. Utah has terrific players coming together as a team at precisely the right time. Oregon is a dangerous team, and they have exactly the same goals as Utah, beat a worthy ranked competitor, win a conference championship and represent the Pac-12 in the Rose Bowl.
Unfinished business. Itās not usual for a team to beat the same opponent twice in one season, particularly for a conference championship. In the Pac-12, itās unusual for that not to happen. As fans we need to put out of our minds what happened on November 20. Utah is 8-1 in Pac-12 play. Oregon is 7-2, but what happened in earlier games matters not this Friday. Utah has the best offense in the conference. Utah has the stingiest defense in the conference. Utah beats conference foes by 17 points on average. Oregon, 5.5 points. In my mind, Utah is the best team in the Pac-12 at this point in the season.
Unfinished business. I believe the team captains, the coaches and vocal players are spoiling for a fight in this upcoming match up. While the team has shown some ups and downs, they have either beaten every conference team they played or lost it on a handful of mistakes. The game against Colorado, one of the worst teams in the conference, disappointed some because of the margin. Colorado did not score an offensive TD.
Unfinished business will be finished on Friday. In Utah I trust.
34-21.
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9-3
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Utah 27-17
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Itās been SOOO long since Kwitt won the ābig oneā - like Alabama more than a decade ago. And kwhtt has really never won the ābig oneā when favoredā¦ever?
So yea, feeling a bit of the BUFFS ( battered Utah Football fan Syndrome). It would mean so much for the program ( and Kwhitt) to actually play from the alpha position and win.
All I know is when a more talent team ( i.e. Oregon, Texas 2019) take the Utes serious- the results are a huge gut punch. Coachās and players fold like a house of cards.
Really hoping the Utes can play believing they are the better team as opposed to the disrespected underdog.
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Utes 31 Daffy Ducks 17
Utes score 22 points in both halves, beating the Ducks 44 - 21
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Utes 28 Quackers 24
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So did Oregon with the cfp on the line not take
Utah seriously two weeks ago?
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I totally get what nervous Ute fans feel about this game after our disappointments. Iām one of those fans. But this team and this season just feel different to me. I believe we will win.
Now that Iāve said that, everyone can rest easy. 
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This is worth saying again. Utah has won way more big games in the last decade than they averaged over the previous 100+ years of the programās existence. In 2015, Utah went to Eugene Oregon and curb-stomped #13 Oregon 62-20. (Oregon finished the season ranked #19). But that doesnāt count as a big game for reasons no one can articulate.
And, like ironman just pointed out, Oregon should have been taking Utah seriously 10 days ago. It was the game of the week on ABC, between two ranked teams, with Oregon as the Vegas underdog. But for reasons no one can articulate, it wasnāt a ābig oneā and Oregon didnāt take the game āseriousā (sic).
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Yeah, our only hope is we get the same Oregon team that didnāt really want to lock up the North 2 weeks ago, was looking ahead to their rival (now to their inevitable rematch with Ohio St.), and the one that didnāt really want to go to Dallas or Miami for CFP because thatās just stupid. 
TIC
This is the year
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Yes.
- We have shown that we can play our game and, without mistakes, be really good.
- We donāt need to force turnovers, but we also canāt give any. Bonus if we do have a + TO margin.
- We have to at least be neutral on ST (better if we win), but not make stupid mistakes that give up points or give them great field position. Bonus if the idiots kick to Covey again.
- We can play disciplined defense (which is essential with Brown and Dye) and hold them to execute perfectly. Good to contain Brown, bonus if we actually sack him.
- I hope (and think) Utah is >50% of the fans and we make some noise to negate any feeling of an away game (which both teams are subject to). Bonus if we have 60%+
- All we need to do is score more points than them and hold them to less points than us!
- Kyle gets his bowl record back on track. It was REALLY good, then has taken a couple years off.
I just want to break the string of four straight post-season games the wife and I have going that ended in gut-punch losses.
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The last time I went to a game in Vegas we got beat. So now itās our turn. This makes as much sense to me as anything else.
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Thatās not my point. Yea, With ALL the pressure on the Ducks, they blew it.
My point is this. Now that most of the pressure lays at the feet of kwhitt.
- Can he get to the Rose Bowl after recent failed attempts?
- Can he beat a higher ranked team (and superior talentā¦ at least on paper) for a second time within 10 days?
- Can a Utah team favored to win ,play the alpha and not fold like a lawn chair when being the āhuntedā?
All three of these questions have not been proven in kwhittās history as a coach. Utahs DNA has always been the disrespected, overlooked under dog. Can they flip the mental switch for this game?
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