Why is the media so high on Utah?

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• haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 21,506

  September 2019

  DoogieMcDoogerson said:

  Solid RB, Shitty QB. Seems like we should have no problem shutting their offense down. We've beat them 4 straight.
  

  Because fucking morons that cover college football actually like the NFL, MMA, and extreme sports.
  
  They lazily just look at returning starters to make all of their predictions. I doubt they even watched Huntley last year as he got owned by fucking Browning.

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• GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,485

  September 2019

  Altitude

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• TTJ Member Posts: 4,797

  September 2019

  Because they’re huge, physical, experienced, and very well coached.
  
  Huntley still sucks until he doesn’t. But Moss looks great. The Utes will be UW’s toughest regular-season matchup.

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• dnc Member Posts: 56,614

  September 2019

  TTJ said:

  Because they’re huge, physical, experienced, and very well coached.
  
  Huntley still sucks until he doesn’t. But Moss looks great. The Utes will be UW’s toughest regular-season matchup.

  Stanford's going to be our toughest matchup IMO. But I do think Ute will be #2.

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 34,940

  September 2019

  TTJ said:

  Because they’re huge, physical, experienced, and very well coached.
  
  Huntley still sucks until he doesn’t. But Moss looks great. The Utes will be UW’s toughest regular-season matchup.

  You mean the Ute coach that got beat by the Browning helicopter in 2017? They are our 3rd tuffest game now that USC lost Daniels.

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• RaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 104,474

  September 2019

  
  

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• AtomicDawg Member Posts: 7,042

  September 2019

  Utah’s defense is the real deal. Their secondary and d line are as strong as anyone. They have the best corner in the conference and maybe the country. One good lb and a plethora of d linemen to rotate.
  
  Moss is the real deal at Rb. Reminds me of Polk without his shoulder falling off so he actually has been able to lift weights.
  
  The rest of the team is meh. But thats a pretty good
  Start. FWIW when they were healthy last year and took and told Troy Taylor to stop throwing the ball they beat the ever living shit out of Stanford on the farm.
  
  It’s a legit top 15 team. If they can figure out the forward pass and avoid injuries they could be better.

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• CuntWaffle Member Posts: 22,493

  September 2019

  Joe Williams retired and came back to play FOOTBALL. People forget that.

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• CuntWaffle Member Posts: 22,493

  September 2019

  AtomicDawg said:

  Utah’s defense is the real deal. Their secondary and d line are as strong as anyone. They have the best corner in the conference and maybe the country. One good lb and a plethora of d linemen to rotate.
  
  Moss is the real deal at Rb. Reminds me of Polk without his shoulder falling off so he actually has been able to lift weights.
  
  The rest of the team is meh. But thats a pretty good
  Start. FWIW when they were healthy last year and took and told Troy Taylor to stop throwing the ball they beat the ever living shit out of Stanford on the farm.
  
  It’s a legit top 15 team. If they can figure out the forward pass and avoid injuries they could be better.

  Sounds like WASHINGTON for the past 4 years. But this isn’t last years Washington.

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• dnc Member Posts: 56,614

  September 2019

  CuntWaffle said:

  Joe Williams retired and came back to play FOOTBALL. People forget that.

  PM to Joe:
  
  Walk away from a lucrative NFL career to follow your heart by playing rugby and TPO.

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• PineapplePirate Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 4,209

  September 2019

  Altitude is my guess

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• Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 26,851

  September 2019

  Mountains

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• rodmansrage Member Posts: 6,161

  September 2019

  TTJ said:

  Because they’re huge, physical, experienced, and very well coached.
  
  Huntley still sucks until he doesn’t. But Moss looks great. The Utes will be UW’s toughest regular-season matchup.

  theyve had something like 10 OCs in the last 12 year or some shit like that.
  
  their defense is good but huntley still looks incredibly uncomfortable throwing the ball.

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• dtd Member Posts: 4,490

  September 2019

  Same reason they're high on Justin Herbert. They don't do any research and once that ball starts bouncing around the echo chamber, it gets moving real fast.

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• RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,123

  September 2019

  dtd said:

  Same reason they're high on Justin Herbert. They don't do any research and once that ball starts bouncing around the echo chamber, it gets moving real fast.

  I don’t have a problem with Utah being the favorite in the South, but to say they are better than UW is wrong. We’re a more talented team with the proven best coach in the conference, and we beat them every year. The media decided it was Utah’s year for some reason.

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• ExtraChrisB Member Posts: 1,811

  September 2019 edited September 2019

  dtd said:

  Same reason they're high on Justin Herbert. They don't do any research and once that ball starts bouncing around the echo chamber, it gets moving real fast.

  Yup. Utah was a trendy underrated team early which then quickly turned into an overrated team as everybody jumped on board to show how woke they were to this underrated team.

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• PurpleJ Member Posts: 36,906

  September 2019 edited September 2019

  Whittingham does more with less. No one wants to pick the defending champ to win again, because they are edge lords like @puppylove_sugarsteel who care more about going out on a limb than actually being right.
  
  ASU or USC in the loaded south. I’m favoring the bitchfork, but Helton won before and USC probably has some decent talent.

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• dtd Member Posts: 4,490

  September 2019 edited September 2019

  RoadDawg55 said:

  dtd said:

  Same reason they're high on Justin Herbert. They don't do any research and once that ball starts bouncing around the echo chamber, it gets moving real fast.

  I don’t have a problem with Utah being the favorite in the South, but to say they are better than UW is wrong. We’re a more talented team with the proven best coach in the conference, and we beat them every year. The media decided it was Utah’s year for some reason.

  That's exactly right. It's Karl Malone winning MVP over MJ.
  
  There's basically zero reason to not favor UW every single year until they prove otherwise. The best coaching staff, by a million fucking miles, with the at worst 2nd best talent. Fucking duh? I hate it but pretending I don't have cancer isn't gonna make it stop metastasizing.
  
  Also if I stop posting for a few monthsever it's not cause I'm banned. Or it's also because I'm banned.

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• JECAR Member Posts: 585

  September 2019

  dnc said:

  CuntWaffle said:

  Joe Williams retired and came back to play FOOTBALL. People forget that.

  PM to Psalm:
  
  Walk away from a lucrative NFL career to follow your heart by playing rugby and TPO.

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• BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 11,151

  September 2019

  People always want to prove how smart they are by bucking the norm. That's how a shit school like Utah gets picked to win the conference.

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