Utah came away with a win, BYU has been eliminated. We can officially put this season to rest and behind us!

I know this is not the season that we were expecting. That being said, I am still very proud of our boys for finishing our season strong. Now, we still have plenty of college football left. I was just curious about what teams y'all are routing for as we head into the college playoffs.

My understanding is that 5-7 teams are sometimes able to go bowling, and it's determined based on the number of 6+ win teams and the academic ratings of the 5-7 teams.

Is there any chance Utah gets a bowl invite this year?

Ended last night with a win! Now let’s change our red to an ASU and ISU red. Let’s put BYU right where they should be and out of the championship and playoffs!

I’ve seen a couple (loose) rumors about John Mateer potentially having already made a deal with Utah, wondering if anyone has heard anything.

There was news a couple weeks ago that Mateer has been offered $1mil+ by an unnamed school.

Either way, this guy should absolutely be a portal target for Utah. He’s at 3k passing yards for the season, 28 TDs and 6 INTs, another 770 yards on the ground. (Still has one more regular season game today vs Wyoming)

What if he was used for those 3 red zone trips against Arizona. Or Houston. Or TCU. Man.

its been a tough year for the utes. but all things considered, it will be a year we look back on and ask how that happened rather than say that was the turning point. the future still looks bright and as always, a utah fan am i! SKO UTES!!

Pretty damn awesome that Luke Bottari comes to the rescue again, and finishes perfect in his Utah career as a starter (2-0). Amazing job by our team tonight. Name any other seniors you want to praise. Let’s give plenty of flowers to Micah 💐🔥

If this is Kyle’s last game, I’ll actually be pretty emotional about it. He’s been so influential, and a source of consistency for years. I respect him so much, and feel thankful for who he’s been for this program. Personally, I’d love to see him come back and end on a higher note than this season.

It’s been a rough season for sure. Definitely a lot of unknowns going forward with offense, QB and coaching, but the team looked solid tonight outside of some flags. The defense looked exactly like I expect from Scalley.

This provides a lot of hope going into next year. Scalley looks in charge. Even if Whitt stays on another year, I truly expect Scalley will be doing most of the work while Whitt coaches him from the side.

I’ve not liked a lot of this year’s decisions, but if tonight is indication of Scalley’s directions. We are coming back.

I want us to abandon the double U for a year just to see what happens when we channel that full Ute energy.

So with our poor quarterback situation and Isaac Wilson needing a substantial amount of more time to be ready. Plus with the rumors of him leaving and hopefully not too many players leave next year. Do we take Cam back to hold us over and carry us into next year to hopefully build our reputation again? Because unless you’re getting crazy NIL money, I’m not sure why you’d come to Utah after this season.

Some seem to think today might be Coach Whittingham’s last game as head coach. If true- what’s your favorite memory?

Mine is the 2007 Wyoming game when he called for an onside kick up 43-0. Wyoming coach had guaranteed a victory at Utah in the days leading up to the game. Odd memory given all his accomplishments, but this always comes to mind.

Finally the end of this nightmare of a season for Utah football. Hopefully we can get a win tonight just to go out on somewhat of a "high note" ( if we can even call going potentially 5-7 for the season a "high note", but I'll take any kind of "win" at this point. Also I'll just throw in that I'll be a Houston fan for tomorrow's game while I'm at it.

With that said, good luck tonight Utah Football and I'm more than ready at this point to move on from 2024.

I’ve heard a lot of speculation that Whitt announces his retirement tonight or tomorrow. Wondering if you have heard the same? Uteinsider?

When: Friday November 29 - 7:00 pm Mountain

Where: FBC Mortgage Stadium - Orlando, FL

Watch: FOX

Odds: UCF 9.5

Total Points: 46.5

Game Preview

The Utes finish off their season in Orlando, FL after another close loss to Iowa State. Luke Bottari finished off the game after an injury to Isaac Wilson. Freshman WR Daidren Zipperer led the team with 4 receptions for 66 yards for the first time this season, a good sign for next year. Lander Barton had a pick six in what may be his last home game as a Ute to extend the pick six streak to 21 years. Similar to Utah, UCF started off the year hot with 3 wins in a row and then cooled significantly winning only one of their next 8 games. KJ Jefferson started the year at QB, but was benched initially for true freshman EJ Colson, who was then replaced by sophomore Jacurri Brown during the Cincinnati game. After games with multiple interceptions, coach Gus Malzahn inserted freshmanDylan Rizk who led 2 scoring drives against BYU. Rizk then started against Arizona and led the team to a resounding 56-12 win. The freshman has 797 yards, 5 TDs and 1 INT in the 5 games he’s played this year. The UCF defense is giving up 31.8 points per game in conference play this year.

Hello, I’m a a USF student but also a Utah fan so I’m making the drive to watch the game today! I lost my only Utah shirt and was wondering if anyone attending the game has a men’s one I can buy off of them, size Large. Only thing I have to wear right now is a USF shirt which is their rival but if much rather have a Utah shirt on.

Football season always takes forever to get here and then is seemingly over in the blink of an eye.

This season had high hopes and as I look around, I don't see a single team that I feel would have been definitively better than us with a healthy Cam Rising at the helm. In fact, I'd argue that Cam Rising's presence alone flips this team from 4-7 to 10-1 or 11-0 right now. His knowledge, experience, charisma etc means that much.

And yet, criticizing the staff is more than fair because we shouldn't have banked on him being healthy all year. We should have had someone waiting in the wings, or at least tailored the offense to the backups strengths.

A lot of guys have fought hard through it all. Even in defeat, its fun to watch them compete.

Ill be watching tonight for what is unfortunately the last game of the year. I wish these seniors the best. The offseason is going to have a lot of lows but I hope it has enough highs to make us feel good going into next year.

GO UTES!

Our scores may not have held up, but our fandom always does! One more time - The Bullpen, 5 PM kickoff, 8199 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego. Go Utes!

But at the same time I want Jaylon Johnson to play well today 🤣 3 tackles so far.

If you think about it Kansas beat Iowa State, BYU and Colorado 3 games in a row. 3 colleges nobody here likes. At least that's good right? Also BYU and Colorado both definitely are out the playoffs now.

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This Week: Utah vs UCF

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What happened to the RPO spread offense? That was fun to watch. We’ve been using a single RB and the hand-offs are so telegraphed. There’s no mystery.

Even when they run play-action, the QBs aren’t selling it. I feel like other good teams have a lot of movement in the backfield, keeping the defense guessing what the QB is gonna do.

Botarri did make a nice fake hand-off on Sat and ran it himself for a big gain. But that was it.

Plus, we have all those giant tight ends and they hardly ever use them in the short-pass game. Seems like they would be perfect for an RPO style offense.

I don’t get it.