So because your friends don't know anything about college football that means nobody knows anything about Utah?
I have plenty of friends in SoCal myself, having also lived there, and they all knew about Utah possibly joining the PAC before it was official.
There really is no in between with you. That's not what I said at all. Just simply that Utah joining the PAC was only big to U of U fans. Fans of USC, UCLA, etc. could have cared less... and still don't.
I'm going to have to call BS on your entire post. If somebody is a "huge" Pac10 fan, they would know damn well who Utah is. Utah has been in the the conversation for the Pac 10 for a few years now. I have a hunch that what your really talking about is a bunch of casual, front-running So-Cal fans who don't follow much of anything football related very closely and you're making them out to be huge fans who've never heard of Utah just to try and make a point. If they are such "HUGE" So-Cal fans, I wonder why they've never heard of Utah considering it wasn't all that long ago Carson Palmer and the Trojans lost to them in the Vegas Bowl. Did these "HUGE" fans forget to turn on their TV's that day?
So people that have season tickets to UCLA and USC are just casual fans that don't follow football now? LOL
It just wasn't that big a deal to USC fans. It was a minor bowl against a "small time" school. Why would it be memorable to a USC fan?
Call ******** all you like but trust me. It's not that big a deal for anyone outside of the U's little world.