Thursday, November 11. 2010
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That large deflating sound you heard around 500 south and 1400 east on Saturday, that was the sound of 45,000 fans being taken out of the game almost immediately. In a game that meant everything, the Utes came out extremely flat. Now Head Coach Kyle Whittingham is facing the toughest challenge of his head coaching career. Meanwhile, in Provo, the Cougars finally found some offense. Talk about flipping the script. An offense that couldn't be stopped can't get out of the garage, while an offense that couldn't get started, didn't have a brake pedal.
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Wednesday, November 3. 2010
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Well, sure glad that's over. Air Force week lives up to it's miserable history as they play yet another close game against the Utes. The Utes survived and set up the most important football game ever to take place in the state of Utah. #6 in the AP, and Coaches Poll, #5 in the BCS, the Utes welcome #4 in the AP/Coaches Poll, and now #3 in the BCS to town for a massive showdown. Meanwhile BYU was off last week, and now face a 3 week stretch that should be easy, but based on the way they've played this year, you never know.
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Tuesday, October 26. 2010
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We've been talking about it for weeks, and now we have finally arrived. After a wet and rainy day in Rice-Eccles Stadium, the Utes prepare for their tough final stretch. It all begins with Hell Week. For the Cougars, every weekend has seemed like that, even when they win. This week the Cougars get to dry out with their bye week.
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Tuesday, October 19. 2010
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They say a head coach isn't truly happy unless he has something to gripe about with his team's performance. After playing two really clean games against San Jose State, and Iowa State coach Whittingham should be ecstatic this week as he will have plenty to complain about after an unimpressive performance by the Utes. While his Utes were exposing holes in their game, their rivals from down south were doing the same against TCU.
Elsewhere around the country, the final games before the release of the official BCS standings, became shakeup weekend. Three top 10 teams lost, two of them to unranked teams. For the second straight week one of those three teams was the #1 overall team, as the Buckeyes lost to the Badgers. Air Force, Nevada, and Oregon State all dropped close games late in the evening/early morning. The Beavers going to double overtime before losing. Continue reading "Red, Blue And Pigskin" Tuesday, October 12. 2010
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During a week in which they didn't play a game, the Utes moved up a spot in the poll. This week, #1 ranked Alabama lost and the Utes played a game. The result? No movement in one poll, and dropping in another, despite racking up over 1,000 combined yardage, and posting the most points ever for an opposing team at Jack Trice Stadium. Meanwhile a tumultuous week in Provo led to all sorts of change, including a new coach, and a new offensive style. The change fueled an emotional first quarter that let the Cougars show a young upstart team that they still aren't ready for the upper half of the MWC.
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The worst weekend of the season is over. We can wave goodbye to the bye. Utah did manage to become a top 10 team during their bye week. Up north however, things got a lot worse for the team down south. Apparently the Cougars big revenge for the Utes getting into the Pac-12 instead of themselves is to completely obliterate Utah's strength of schedule. In an attempt to change things around though, the Cougars have pointed out their scapegoat.
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Tuesday, September 28. 2010
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The fourth week of the season says goodbye to September with another loss for BYU, and the end to the first half of the Utah home schedule. Utah has shown that it used it's scrimmage season to improve upon first week issues. Meanwhile BYU actually showed some improvement for the first time this season. BYU is looking at the end of an unusually tough (for them) non conference schedule, while Utah is preparing for their toughest foe of the early season.
Continue reading "Red, Blue And Pigskin" Thursday, September 23. 2010
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Do you realize we are already a quarter of the way through the season. Ahh glorious football, why must you be so fleeting. At least that means we still have three quarters of the season to go. So what happened this week in the quarter pole game? Well the cougars showed up for a quarter, and the Utes spotted the Lobos a quarter before destorying them for the other three quarters. History repeated itself twice this week, once from last year, and once from just last week. Finally, the BYU QB situation has figured itself out, but after watching the games the last two weeks it really may not matter.
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Week 2 typically will tell you more about a team than a week 1 result will. Sometimes week 2 will re-affirm what was learned in week 1, while sometimes week 2 will give a completely different result, that will make you wonder if anything from week 1 can be trusted. Then again, the nice thing about football is that nothing is consistent, so teams will always be re-evaluating the lessons learned. So what was learned in week 2? We learned that two is not greater than one. We learned that swinging gates are better left closed. We learned that you can lose without even playing. We learned that redemption is possible.
And finally we learned that white face paint protects you from sunburns better than red face paint. Continue reading "Red, Blue And Pigskin" Tuesday, September 7. 2010
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Utah, BYU, TCU, and Boise State all kept rolling. Utah outdoes BYU's 2 QB system, by playing 4 QB's, including 2 of the 3 MWC players of the week. Two Heisman campaigns came into the state and died. A former Cougar came home to LaVell Edwards Stadium, and gave a horrific coaching performance. Gary Andersen takes the state's best QB into Norman, Oklahoma, and scares the crap out of the Sooners, probably making them never want to see a team from the state of Utah again. An exciting opening weekend has come and gone in College Football. Now it's time to make the big improvements from week 1 to week 2.
Also rumors of a football team in New Mexico were proven to be no more valid than sightings of Bigfoot. Continue reading "Red, Blue And Pigskin" Wednesday, September 1. 2010
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This is it. Game Week. Opening Kickoff is on it's way. All of the offseason nonsense is behind us. Utah's evacuation to the Pac-10 is moot until next year. BYU's Independence is set to be announced, and is also moot until next year. All that matters now is the next 3 months.
It's start with a great weekend of games. Pitt/Utah, TCU/Oregon State, Washington/BYU, Utah State/Oklahoma, and a Labor Day Evening nightcap of Boise State/Virginia Tech. The games finally start Thursday, but before they do there still a little bit of business to be discussed. Among the business to be done, is the fact that BYU finally revealed the worst kept secret in all of football. Continue reading "Red, Blue And Pigskin" Monday, August 23. 2010
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12 Years ago, Utah and BYU were tired of the over-bloated 16 team Western Athletic Conference. The two schools were instrumental in getting New Mexico, Wyoming, Air Force, UNLV, San Diego State, and Colorado State to join them as they formed a new 8 team Mountain West Conference. The WAC was left with UTEP, Hawaii, Fresno State, TCU, Rice, SMU, Tulsa, and San Jose State. TCU hadn't yet hired Gary Patterson to start their transition to a BCS Threat. The WAC was severely depleted, and on the verge of irrelevency. By 2005 the WAC had seen Rice, Tulsa, SMU, and TCU also leave it's conference. Thanks mainly to the emergence of Boise State, the WAC was able to recover the destruction left behind when Utah and BYU left.
12 years later, BYU may very well have started the events that will finish the job. Continue reading "Red, Blue And Pigskin" Monday, August 16. 2010
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Camps are now two weeks old. Utah and BYU have both had their scrimmages. Positions are starting to be sorted out, even If Bronco won't admit it. Honestly though he shouldn't. We have our first official pre-season Top 25, with the usual big boys club hand shaking in tact. Everyone is still dreaming big. BCS Dreams, National Championship dreams are all still fully reachable.
The question is, will they be reached? Continue reading "Red, Blue And Pigskin" Tuesday, August 3. 2010
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Do you feel that? The shift? A world that has been out of whack since early this year, is finally starting to right itself. Chaos, is starting to make way for order. A terrible wrong is being righted.
That's right, Football is almost back. The NFL Players have already started their training camp, including the St. Louis Rams further cementing their doom by paying a rookie QB who couldn't stay healthy in college, and is coming off of two surgeries to his throwing shoulder, and was thoroughly befuddled before he got injured by BYU's defense in the opening game last year, 78 million dollars over 6 years, including 50 million guaranteed. Heck even Brett Favre is at it again. But Alas, that's not what we're here to talk about, there is another space for that. We're here to talk about the pageantry, the beauty, and the frustrating lack of a championship that is College Football. Fall camps are starting up. The Utes report Thursday, Cougars on Saturday. Heck even the Aggies of Utah State, who are preparing to shock the world in the WAC, report on Monday. But before we can get to the future, we should take some time to relive a relatively quiet offseason for local teams and the MWC. Football is back, and so is Red, Blue And Pigskin. Continue reading "Red, Blue And Pigskin" Thursday, December 3. 2009
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Ahh the Holy War. It was a bit of a sloppy game, with tempers flaring on both sides. It had hard hits, personal fouls, big plays, a post game interview low on class, and despite a memorable final play, the game itself wasn't all that memorable, won't be remembered that much in the annals of the Rivalry history, except for a certain set of comments.
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