Utah Football 2014

[accadacca]

Looks like Thompson is getting the start tonight.

[gholt]

Good 1st quarter.

[Iceaxe]

Looks like Thompson is getting the start tonight.

That didn't last long.

[accadacca]

Scoreless quarter! Oregon's O is getting waxed.

[accadacca]

Ouch!

[accadacca]

Gave them 7.

[accadacca]

What exactly happened to Thompson?

[gholt]

Knee injury.

[accadacca]

The train just started rollin'...shit!

[accadacca]

That fumble on the 1 took the air out of this place...

I was sitting right there and knew exactly what happened. :(

[accadacca]

[skiclimb3287]

Thanks for reminding us acca...crushing. Good to see a glimmer of a passing game tonight. The injuries hurt. Patrick looked in pain. That injury was right in front of us. Maybe Christensen's play calling will trust Wilsons play calling a bit more.

[accadacca]

Meanwhile in the SEC... #11 Ole Miss played Presbyterian College 48-0 and #1 Miss State played Tennessee Martin 45-16. WTF?!?!

[cchoc]

d'oh

[Iceaxe]

Looking on the bright side of last nights game it appears Utah no longer has a QB controversy.

[Deuce]

Looking on the bright side of last nights game it appears Utah no longer has a QB controversy.

Nope, it will now just be Manning or Cox that everyone is calling for.... I'm not kidding either.... How long before Whit and Christensen say that the QB job is an open competition?

If the Utes can just win 2 of their next 3, puts them at 8-4....which would be an UNBELIEVEABLE SEASON. Hell, 7 wins would be amazing... Start of the season, people were hoping for 6. Vegas had the Utes at 4.5.

Though how the Utes at 6-3 is a bit disappointing, almost snake bit....

[Iceaxe]

There is a lot of truth in what you say... Lavell Edwards always said the most popular guy in Provo is BYU's back-up QB....

I would be happy with a 7-5 season, 8-4 would be outstanding, particularly with the schedule Utah played which at the beginning of the season was ranked the toughest in college football for 2014.

They way I look at it now is the Utes are playing to see what bowl they go to. Everything is still open to them from the Rose Bowl to the Cactus Bowl... I'm thinking the Holiday Bowl would be a great spot and would require an 8-4 season. 7-5 probably gets you the Las Vegas Bowl and 6-6 gets you the disappointing Cactus bowl.

[rockgremlin]

Meanwhile in the SEC... #11 Ole Miss played Presbyterian College 48-0 and #1 Miss State played Tennessee Martin 45-16. WTF?!?!

Yup, gotta pad that schedule. Can't have the SEC looking vulnerable.

Utah should take notes. Maybe next year schedule Westminster and Weber State in the latter half of the season. Does Salt Lake Community College have a team?

[rockgremlin]

I was so pissed after Clay dropped that ball that I sat for the next 5 minutes reading a book in protest. I'm sure the Utah players saw my reaction and were inspired to improve their game....kinda like how Mariota was really affected after I shouted insults at him when he ran into the sideline near where I was seated.


Didn't Clay do something similar to this earlier on in the season?

[Iceaxe]

FWIW - here are the PAC 12 bowl ties...

#1 College Football Playoff. Automatic berth to one of the New Years Six bowl games, preferentially the Rose Bowl versus Big Ten #1.
#2 The Alamo Bowl versus Big 12 #2.
#3 The Holiday Bowl versus Big Ten #4.
#4 The San Francisco Bowl versus Big Ten #6.
#5 The Sun Bowl versus ACC #4.
#6 The Las Vegas Bowl versus Mountain West #1.
#7 The Cactus Bowl (Tempe) versus Big 12 #6.

And here are ESPN's projection's as of last week...

College Football Playoff: Oregon
Fiesta Bowl: Arizona State
Valero Alamo Bowl: Utah
National University Holiday Bowl: UCLA
San Francisco Bowl: Arizona
Hyundai Sun Bowl: USC
Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl: Stanford
Cactus Bowl: Washington
Heart of Dallas Bowl (at large): California