We only had one penalty. That was nice to see.
Can anyone explain why there wasn’t PI called on those two plays? Sure looked like PI to me.
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I came away more optimistic about the offense that I expected to be. Seems like we have some real weapons and the playcalling seemed very much in line from what we saw last year.
I also came away more pessimistic about the defense than I expected to be. We didn’t get much pressure, allowed long sustained drives against vastly inferior competition, and often seemed out of place and a step slow. Doesn’t matter against Idaho, but it will matter against better teams.
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I was at that 1993 game where nothing Utah’s offense did worked except when Jamal had the ball and I kept on yelling give the ball to Jamal. Believe that was our last loss to a lower division team.
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It was. And while it was an embarrassing loss, that was a really good Idaho team. They had multiple blowout wins and made it all the way to FCS playoff semis. Within a couple years, of course, they moved back up to FBS where they spent the next 20+ years.
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The Idaho coach Smith (first name?) went from Idaho to Utah State a bit later (and beat the Utes twice) then moved on to Louisville for a while.
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John L
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Yep Alex Smith’s uncle. He also was the HC at Michigan State for a while.
I remember in some interview or something, Alex joking about how he only had two college offers coming out of HS - but one was from Louisville where his uncle was the coach, so it “didn’t really count”. 
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We won, lots of players got reps, no major injuries happened. It was what we needed a game 1 body bag game to be. That said…
Props to the Vandals for playing their hearts out. They will have a great season in the Big Sky.
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Love that we are still doing the Moment of Loudness. Also love the new narration.
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Really well done. Originally, it was all Whitt. Morgan has opened it up to a LOT of co-narrators.
To be clear, I’m not picking on KW, it’s a great tradition born from tragedy, and he led us through it.
But the way it has evolved is symbolic of Morgan’s different leadership style.
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