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fishonjazz said:
Depends on who gets injured and when and how bad the injuries are.

Let's say Wilson gets injured in game one and is out for the year. And booker missed the year for some mysterious reason that no one knows. Then bookers backup goes down. Then his backup goes down. Then the utes best defensive player on the team goes down for 4 games. And against Michigan in game one you have 3 starters suspended.

What do you think the utes record would be in that scenario? (That is what byu has dealt with btw)

Like bawse dog said. Every team has injuries.
Utes have been blessed with no major injuries to their indespensible players in big games.
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I'm really bummed out that you came in here and tried your best to find a way to fit BYU into the conversation. C'mon man, you're better than that!

If you do want to use the BYU analogy, I could just as easily point out that defensively, Utah is pretty much 2 deep across the board in quality starters and in some cases, even 3 deep. That right there is why we're starting to see a bigger gap between the two programs. Yes, Utah is scary thin at QB after Travis. That is a problem that still needs to be solved, but Utah is finally past the point of a couple of key injuries derailing a season.
 
jazzman12 said:
Utah is finally past the point of a couple of key injuries derailing a season.
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This is where I disagree.
I think if the utes had a season ending injury to Booker, Wilson, Scott or even the punter that they would have a couple of losses by now and probably end the year with about 3 losses.

Even p5 schools need their star players to have a chance at the playoffs.
How many of the undefeated teams have lost their starting qb for a bunch of games this year? I would guess the answer is zero.
I don't think that is a coincidence
 
fishonjazz said:
Also green, I would like to see the link where you predicted 11-1 season for the utes (I actually wouldn't surprised if it were true, this is green we are talking about after all, I just don't remember seeing it)


In the beginning of this thread before a game was played I predicted the utes would go 9-3 and challenge for the pac12 title. And that was when I thought Oregon and usc would be good. I also predicted before the season began that this was the utes best pac 12 team yet
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https://www.utefans.net/message.php?id=1750550

I'm Ute2004
 
Bawse Dawg said:
Utes have been lucky with injuries so far this year. To say otherwise is dumb.
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I'll say otherwise. Ahmad Christian, transfer from Southern Carolina hasn't gotten on the field. Dimick missed two games. Wilson has missed time. Our top WR hasn't played yet. Troy McCorimick was supposed to be our home run guy on offense. We just moved our third string QB to safety and he may start vs USC (Hope Hansen can get back to QB). Our starting TE is done for the year. Domo missed two games due to racism.

We've had 4 starters out for the season so far. We haven't lost Booker yet, but we did lose Wilson for a stretch. Booker is incredible, but RB is like DE for Utah. Anderson, Anderson, Fuamatu-Ma'afala, Hunter, Johnson, Ganther, Asiata, Mack, Wide, White, Booker.

RB at Utah is one JC 1,000 yard back after another. Williams isn't getting a lot of time, but he has looked good. He will fill in the roll next year and you'll be here next year saying how lucky we are he hasn't gotten hurt yet.

Would losing Booker be devastating? Probably.

But I think we are at worst, 5-1 right now without Booker.

Wilson was the key to Michigan. USU and FSU are wins with or without Booker. We beat Oregon without Booker. We completely dominated ASU with Booker not doing much.

The only loss might be Cal up to this point. And I'm not sure we lose that game without Booker.

The fact is our defense is nasty. Wilson is one of the most efficient QB's in the country. Losing Booker would hurt, but we'd still win 9-10 games without him.

This is a special team and we have depth everywhere.

Like I've been saying since December, enjoy this season. This may be a once in a lifetime season.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
Utes have been lucky with injuries so far this year. To say otherwise is dumb.
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This. And that was my only point. It's not taking away from what they have done. It's not an insult or a putdown.

Utes are an amazing team with a shot at a national championship.
 
green said:
I'll say otherwise. Ahmad Christian, transfer from Southern Carolina hasn't gotten on the field. Dimick missed two games. Wilson has missed time. Our top WR hasn't played yet. Troy McCorimick was supposed to be our home run guy on offense. We just moved our third string QB to safety and he may start vs USC (Hope Hansen can get back to QB). Our starting TE is done for the year. Domo missed two games due to racism.

We've had 4 starters out for the season so far. We haven't lost Booker yet, but we did lose Wilson for a stretch. Booker is incredible, but RB is like DE for Utah. Anderson, Anderson, Fuamatu-Ma'afala, Hunter, Johnson, Ganther, Asiata, Mack, Wide, White, Booker.

RB at Utah is one JC 1,000 yard back after another. Williams isn't getting a lot of time, but he has looked good. He will fill in the roll next year and you'll be here next year saying how lucky we are he hasn't gotten hurt yet.

Would losing Booker be devastating? Probably.

But I think we are at worst, 5-1 right now without Booker.

Wilson was the key to Michigan. USU and FSU are wins with or without Booker. We beat Oregon without Booker. We completely dominated ASU with Booker not doing much.

The only loss might be Cal up to this point. And I'm not sure we lose that game without Booker.

The fact is our defense is nasty. Wilson is one of the most efficient QB's in the country. Losing Booker would hurt, but we'd still win 9-10 games without him.

This is a special team and we have depth everywhere.

Like I've been saying since December, enjoy this season. This may be a once in a lifetime season.
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This is every team in the country though.
 
BTW Green, I have never seen such a homeristic prediction be so spot on (so far). So congrats on that. And hopefully you overestimated USC ;)

You even got the Stanford thing right. I'm legit impressed.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
BTW Green, I have never seen such a homeristic prediction be so spot on (so far). So congrats on that. And hopefully you overestimated USC ;)

You even got the Stanford thing right. I'm legit impressed.
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I'll try to find last year's predictions. I was pretty spot on then too.

The team I can't read is Washington. I had them winning 9 last year and 2 this year. I think my Petersen/Boise hate blinds me. Lol.
 
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