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Duck Rodgers said:
Stanford got out the Christmas wrapping paper early, put bows in their hair, and gave Utah a gift on those last two plays. How does throwing to the Endzone twice on 3 and 2 and 4th and 2 from the 6 with plenty of time left in the game make any sense? Just man up and play smashmouth football like you're supposed to. Bunch of string pullers.

Good win though.
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About a minute left and no timeouts, I understood throwing to the endzone. If they got stuffed on third down, who knows how much time is left to try a 4th down play. Their lack of defense and questionable play calling are what killed them. That roughing the passer penalty on The Ninety Nine Yard Drive kept the drive going when the Utes were probably going to have to kick a field goal. Also, the Utes had a really hard time tacking/covering Ty Montgomery. Here's a novel concept: Give him the ball as much as possible. The Trees didn't do it and the Utes (and their fans) are celebrating. I'm sure the circle jerk will be unbroken as we emerge from our drunken euphoria.
 
Us Ute fans need to ignore the noise coming from the usual trolls and focus on the fact that Utah just pulled off the biggest upset quite possibly in school history. We have 6 days to enjoy this as we look forward to our first PAC road game of the season.

I've gotta give huge props to Ute fans. For the first time ever, I went over to tailgate island and spent a couple hours hanging out. It was a great time. Easily the only place to get that kind of atmosphere in a collegiate setting in this state.

Getting back to the game, I think Dennis Ericksen has been a god send. The offensive game plan was PERFECT and Stanford was never able to dictate the flow of the game.
 
Duck Rodgers said:
Are you guys going to the national championship game or something? College football is all about 1 game right now with no playoffs. And BYU and Utah both aren't going to be in it this year. So who cares? What do we look forward to? Just watching our team - kind of like all of us Jazz fans are going to have to be happy with this year. Single games. Signs of improvement(seen Taysom Hill lately? ). It doesn't feel any different than we started the year. We're 4-2 this year. Just beat Georgia Tech. Texas crushed #12 Oklahoma yesterday so that win is looking great. Plenty of reasons to stay tuned.

Next game: 0 loss Houston

Boise State will be 5-2 when they come to Provo.

@ Wisconsin (who will be ranked again starting today probably after they crushed a ranked team yesterday)

@ Notre Dame

etc.

And San Francisco is hardly the worst place to have your bowl game(which is really just a nice little vacation for the players when it comes down to it). Yeah, we'll be playing the same teams you guys play in that game - a Pac 12 San Diego State - probably Utah even actually - but somehow it's less exciting than you guys playing them week 7? I don't get you guys.
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Thanks for doing your part to make BYU fans so easy to dislike.
 
green said:
Those passes had NOTHING to do with Wilson's thumb. Utah ran the Oregon style offense. Run the LB'ers to one sideline, then to the other. Then run the ball up the middle. Then run them to the other sideline then back again. I'm not saying Utah is Oregon, but it is the same philosophy as Oregon's. Make that defense run. Eventually, they will get tired and you can gouge them for big yardage.

Then, why change that up if Stanford is unwilling to adjust to it.

Also, Bubba Poole is A LOT faster than he gets credit for. Stanford didn't adjust because they haven't needed to yet this year. Poole is legit.
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I was just referring to the last 2 or 3 possessions for Utah, I know that was the main game plan but they would still occasionally mix in a few other passes or runs. Once Wilson hurt his thumb it just seemed the U offense went into that safe zone play calling, but it could've been just protecting the lead and make Stanford stop it.

Oh and yes Bubba was the man in this game for sure.

Here is something we can all agree on, this .gif is awesome

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UGLI baby said:
Or the opposite of that, but whatevs.

Utah needed to get over the hump in the Pac 12. We needed a signature win and we've been painfully close so many times.

We just got over the hump in a huge way.
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I honestly cared more just about getting a conference win than beating #5. It's a hell of a bonus, but I am an idiot and think that the conference is in play still/now. Utah just stays in games and they continue to get noticeably better every game (especially in the play-calling and in the secondary). If they can beat the toast of college football at their own game, I'll believe that the chance is still there and that maybe they even win an incredibly competitive conference.
 
Duck Rodgers said:
Stanford got out the Christmas wrapping paper early, put bows in their hair, and gave Utah a gift on those last two plays. How does throwing to the Endzone twice on 3 and 2 and 4th and 2 from the 6 with plenty of time left in the game make any sense? Just man up and play smashmouth football like you're supposed to. Bunch of string pullers.

Good win though.
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Why can't you just eat your crow and say this was an excellent win? Stating the bolded makes you look like a jerk. Was the play calling to end the game questionable under the circumstances? Sure. There is no guarantee that they would have gotten the first down if they ran the ball. It was IMO more likely, but they didn't do that and the final score had Utah winning 27-21. If you wouldn't have made ridiculous claims and then went on to call the final outcome a gift, then maybe you wouldn't be getting hammered on here like you are.
 
If Stanford just gets the ball to Ty Montgomery they win fairly handily. Utah had no answer.

BTW, he's considered a sure-fire NFL prospect, right?
 
NUMBERICA said:
If Stanford just gets the ball to Ty Montgomery they win fairly handily. Utah had no answer.

BTW, he's considered a sure-fire NFL prospect, right?
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You should work for ESPN.

I also think if Stanford would have put more points up than the Utes they would have won.
 
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