played with a lot of heart and intensity. You wanted it more than our team did and you beat us decisively. Congratulations.

Unfortunately, the rigors of an SEC schedule as well as forced non-conference games against the likes of Florida State (every year) and Miami (every 5th year) make it difficult. I wish we would take it upon ourselves to play the best of the non-BCS on a neutral field or in a home-and-home, but it is difficult to work out. Good luck to your Utes and congrats on a great season.

Thank you for the post.

Add in Boise State, split the conference into North and South divisions, and have those bitches play a conference championship. Anyway, congrats Utah and thanks for the cool post. Y’all kicked our ass.

i agree that something should be done about the current BCS arrangement. the big east, big ten, and ACC really just cant make the case that they’re in anyway superior to the MWC. and to exclude the MWC when all rational observers agree it’s as good or better than HALF the BCS conferences, it just doesn’t make sense. particularly when you consider the old method for determining the champion was; rational observers having a vote.

for the time being the best answer is for mid majors to aggressively pursue better OOC schedules (utah and fresno state’s 2008 OOC schedules are perfect examples of what i’m talking about)

but in the long run, i cant believe i’m about to type this but the ass whoopin we just took has me convinced, we need something close to a playoff. perhaps a “plus 3” (use seeding system to put 8 particpants into the current BCS bowls, take the 4 winners, re-seed, and play a semi final then final, each two weeks apart, screw academics….) or a plus 1 using the same model, but having 4 teams in the running and selecting just the 2 winners…. heres the part that right now seems to make sense but later, might seem retarded, howbout the plus 1 or 3 be determined, at the end of the year, by voters. that way rare occasions like this season (and arguable the last 2 prior) will have 8 teams eligible, normal years like 03,04,05 will send just 4 into the fray…

anyway, back to utah, hats off to em. they got my espn.com fan nation vote for #1. they beat oregon state, us in the sugar bowl, TCU and BYU, and they had the nutts to schedule a game @ michigan, so i wont hold the fact that michigan sucked against em…. good job utes. keep it up.

…I thank you for your post. I hope that ya’ll get the respect you deserve from the poll voters. Your team played great and congratulations are in order. I would love to play at least one quality OOC game every year with a team NOT in the Southeastern part of the country. With a 12th game added to the schedule, that would be a worthy goal, in spite of losing some “home” money. Unfortunately, in life, it’s almost always about the money.

but props