Red, Blue And Pigskin - 6

What a difference a single month makes. A month ago, the Cougars were undefeated, and fans were dreaming of Heisman trophies and national championships. An October full of tricks later, and the Cougars have lost 4 straight. Lost numerable personnel, including most importantly Taysom Hill. Now the Coaches are on the verge of losing the locker room.

Basically the last month went from tweets like this, to a hypocrisy filled, self contradicting "open letter" like this, by the same loud mouthed former player.

After the final weekend in September, a single loss had Ute fans on a ledge, ready to jump. They were ready to get Whittingham out of town immediately. The Utes still couldn't win a close game. They were calling for Kendal Thompson to replace Travis Wilson. In general Ute fans were ready to give up on any chance of a bowl game. Three dramatic, last minute victories later, and the Utes are highly ranked, and bowl eligible. Fans got their chance to look at Thompson and immediately wanted Wilson back. Now some are even (crazily) whispering that "P" word, despite being 17th in the initial rankings.

But October is the time of scares and nightmares, so fittingly, the Utes end October with a really brutal trick. Continue reading "Red, Blue And Pigskin"

See, I told you we hadn't seen the last of Travis Wilson.

They say that an ugly win counts just as much as a win with style points. Fortunately for Utah the same can be said about a fugly one.

For Byu, it became painfully obvious that some changes need to be made to attitudes on the team, but not because of anything that happened during the game. Continue reading "Red, Blue And Pigskin"

Thursday night sure ran the gamut. There was a little bit of everything. Some good, some bad, some ugly. Enough to make Byu fans happy. Enough to make them sad, and definitely enough to anger them.

Meanwhile the Utes were off as they prepared for a possible season defining game in Corvalis.
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I may not have many rules in life, but this is one of them, it doesn't matter if I'm on vacation, when the Utes are the historical night cap of one of the craziest, wildest, upset ridden weeks in college football history, a week that also saw all of the Cougar worst case scenarios come to fruition, well then I have to talk about it.



The only problem is, I'm not sure where to start after such a crazy weekend.



I guess we'll just rip the band aid off for Byu fans and get the bad out of the way, but worry not Cougar fans, as I will actually point out a glimmer of hope. Continue reading "Red, Blue And Pigskin"

It was all set up perfectly. The Utes had just passed a major test the week previously by winning a road game. They're up 21-0 just about 8 minutes into the game. Here they had their chance to have their first ever Pac-12 winning record, and really get a stranglehold on a bowl bid.



Sadly with the opportunity in their hands, the Utes dropped the ball.

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What is it about Byu and Virginia playing that causes a major weather delay for fans in this state? Oh well even the rain in Michigan couldn't damper a good weekend for the state of Utah.



In Provo, although sloppily, the Cougars managed to secure their most impressive win of the year so far. It'll probably end up as their most impressive win of the year when things are all said and done.



For the Utes, the talk was about playing Michigan in front of the 100,000 plus of the Big House. In the end, the Utes also secured their most impressive victory of the young season in front of about 5,000, most of whom were sporting Red. Continue reading "Red, Blue And Pigskin"