Utah Football 2015

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Utah 38
USU 10

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Utah 41
USU 17

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Last weeks predictions...

Final Score: Utah 24 - Michigan 17

accadacca: Utah 31 - Michigan 17

rockgremlin: Utah 45 - Michigan 10

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Utah's Dominique Hatfield reinstated, following his suspension for being charged with felony aggravated robbery and misdemeanor theft.

What exactly happened with Hatfield? Felony aggravated robbery can mean a few different things.

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Ugly game, but they got the W with Wilson and Dimick getting injured. Yikes.

Utah State came to play. Utah is very one dimensional. What would they do without Covey...Mr. Wes Welker.

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What would they do without Covey...Mr. Wes Welker.

Booker, up the middle.

Repeat...

All day...

It was almost boring watching the same play, down after down after down.

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Michigan spanking Oregon State

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Utah senior quarterback Travis Wilson sprained his left (non-throwing) shoulder and is expected to return against Oregon, if not next Saturday against Fresno State, The Salt Lake Tribune has learned.

http://www.sltrib.com/sports/2936307...-expected-back

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Police searching for suspects in overnight shooting at University of Utah

The male victims, ages 18 and 20, are believed to be members of the Utah football team, though that information has not been confirmed by the university.

According to Salt Lake Tribune reporter Matthew Piper, the victims are Sophomore Lo Falemaka and Freshman Marcel Brooks-Brown, both listed on the football team's roster.

http://kutv.com/news/local/police-se...ersity-of-utah

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Utah moves up to #21 in both polls.

The PAC 12 South has 4 teams ranked. It's shaping up to be the most brutal division in college football.

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Fresno hopefully we'll give them a break before conference games start..

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I'm still waiting for this Utah team to start firing on all cylinders. They are strong in all aspects of the game but not outstanding, even our special teams have just been average so far this year.

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New field turf is going in now!



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Utah football: New field for Cal game will include alternating greens, ‘UTES’ in north end zone


The next time somebody takes the field at Rice-Eccles Stadium, they'll do it literally.

And then they'll bring back a new one.

Utah will rip out the old turf and install a new playing surface before it hosts Cal on Oct. 10, tweaking the design to include alternating shades of green, a red-bordered sideline and "UTES," instead of "UTAH," spelled out in the north end zone.

The school has also opted for FieldTurf's "CoolPlay" system, which stadium director Mark Burk said will lower the average temperature on the field 10 to 15 degrees on a hot summer day.

"Since we're replacing it, we decided to go with their latest technology," he said.

That wasn't the motivating factor, though. Rather, Utah felt after fall camp, Fan Fest and the Utes' opener against Michigan that the seventh-year field was "starting to get into that marginal area," Burk said.

It still met safety standards, he said, and Utah could have played on it this season and next, but maintenance was becoming an obstacle.

Said Burk: "The University administration, along with FieldTurf, determined it was in both's best interest to make a change."

Utah's soon-to-be-old field was installed in early 2009, after the Utes won the Sugar Bowl. That cost about $700,000, Burk said, and the new field will be cheaper.

The expected lifespan is 7-10 years.

It will differ from the 2009 field in six basic ways:

1 • The U. opted for a variegated look, similar to the coloring at Utah State's Maverik Stadium, with green and summer green alternating every five yards except in the 10 yards between the 45-yard lines.

2 • The north end zone will read "UTES" instead of "UTAH," a recent alteration to the design that eliminates the redundancy of the "UTAH" newly painted on the Einar Nielsen Fieldhouse roof.

3 • The field will be bordered in red instead of white, except in front of the team boxes (the space between the 25-yard lines), where it will remain white.

4 • The colors of the Pac-12 logos between the 20- and 30-yard lines will be reversed, so that red is the dominant color and white is the accent. "To make it a little more Utah-ish," Burk said.

5 • A layer of "CoolPlay" cork will sit atop the black crumb rubber infill, absorbing less of the sun's heat while still providing a cushion effect.

6 • Utah will play on FieldTurf's latest fiber technology, used by the Seattle Seahawks, New England Patriots, Notre Dame and Ohio State, among others.

A tentative plan called for Utah to begin removal of the old turf Wednesday, but rain Tuesday might delay work. Removal will take about four days.

Then they'll examine the base, and then they'll begin the 10-day installation, which, in a pinch, they can do in seven. The hope is to have it in place more than a week before the Bears visit.

The U. sold pieces of the previous field in a commemorative box, and licensing and marketing director Brett Eden said they plan to get pieces of this inaugural Pac-12 field into the retail market, too.

He's not sure how that'll look, though, and he's happy to hear your ideas at brett.eden@aux.utah.edu.

mpiper@sltrib.com
Twitter: @matthew_piper

http://www.sltrib.com/sports/2952741-155/utah-football-new-field-for-cal?fullpage=1

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Britain Covey Michigan & Utah State Highlights 2015

http://youtu.be/mkB9cNZd9s0

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The BYU game is WAY more entertaining tonight and they actually have a real quarterback. I hate to say it, but I think BYU beats Utah if they played today.

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Preseason is over, now it's time to roll up the sleaves and get down to work.

And I sure hope Wilson is healthy because he is a much better QB than Thompson. Thompson is just not a very good passer.

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Utah is now 17/18 in the latest polls.

Utah is just behind Arizona and just ahead of USC in both polls.

Next weekends game against #13 Oregon should be one of the weekends marquee matchups.