Oklahoma and Florida can battle for the BCS. But we've already crowned the true national champ.

Fantastic article by Rick Reilly on ESPN about the Utah Utes and our National Championship.

"Some gifts people give are pointless: Styling mousse to Dick Vitale. An all-you-can-eat card to Kate Moss. The BCS Championship given to Oklahoma or Florida.

It means nothing because the BCS has no credibility. Florida? Oklahoma? Who cares? Utah is the national champion.

The End. Roll credits.

Argue with this, please. I beg you. Find me anybody else that went undefeated. Thirteen-and-zero. Beat four ranked teams. Went to the Deep South and seal-clubbed Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. The same Alabama that was ranked No. 1 for five weeks. The same Alabama that went undefeated in the regular season. The same Alabama that Florida beat in order to get INTO the BCS Championship game in the first place.

Yeah, that's how it is now in the shameful, money-grubbing world of college football. If you're Florida and you beat Alabama, you get a seat in the title game. If you're Utah, you get a seat on your sofa."

Read the whole article here

Utah Vs. Alabama in the Sugar Bowl

Tonight, my beloved University of Utah Utes will play the Alabama Crimson Tide in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. Some of our fans rode a bus 36 hours from Salt Lake to New Orleans to get there. We've been calling it the Hell Bus on our message board. I really wish I could have been able to get down there to watch it live. I made the trip to Tempe, Arizona for the Fiesta Bowl in 2004, but couldn't afford the trip to N'awlins. I made a huge pot of chicken and sausage gumbo, and am ditching work early to view the game with family. GO UTES! Check out all the fun at www.utefans.net

From Wikipedia: A little info about the University of Utah and the football team

The Utah Utes are the athletics teams of the University of Utah. They are named after the Ute tribe of Native Americans.  The University of Utah college football program began in 1892 and has played home games at Rice-Eccles Stadium since 1927.

The Utes have a record of 10-3 (.769) in bowl games, which is the highest percentage in the nation for teams who have been to more than 10 bowls. They have won 26 conference championships, including six in a row from 1928 to 1933 when they were part of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

The Utes have a 75-33 (.694) record since the beginning of the 2000 season. Along the way, Utah engineered an 18-game winning streak and went to bowl games all three seasons, winning all three. They also produced the best season in school history in 2004, when the Utes were 12-0 and became the first school from a non-Bowl Championship Series conference to play in a BCS bowl game. The Utes played the Big East Conference champion University of Pittsburgh Panthers in the 2005 Fiesta Bowl, winning 35-7. The Utes finished the season ranked #4 in the AP poll. Later that year Alex Smith, who was Utah's quarterback for the 2003 and 2004 seasons, was drafted #1 by the San Francisco 49ers in the 2005 NFL Draft. He became the first player in the state of Utah to ever be drafted first. This culminated in the University of Utah becoming the first school in history to produce two #1 professional draft picks in the same year when Andrew Bogut became the #1 pick in the 2005 NBA Draft. Utah is currently coached by Kyle Whittingham, who took over for Urban Meyer after Meyer left Utah for Florida after two seasons with the Utes. In Whittingham's four years the Utes are 36-14 overall and 22-10 in conference play and have won three bowl games (the Emerald Bowl, the Armed Forces Bowl, the Poinsettia Bowl). During the 2008 regular season, Utah again went undefeated with a 12-0 record and have been invited to play in the 2009 Sugar Bowl.

This is from the final home game of the year where Utah beat their rival BYU 48-24

Here is part of the pep rally from down in New Orleans.

Article on Utah Football Player Paul Kruger

In January 2008, Utah football player Paul Kruger was jumped by gang members and stabbed in the abdomen, and faced life threatening injuries while his teammate Greg Newman was stabbed with a screwdriver. Not only did Paul make an amazing recovery, he's a major reason that Utah is now number 10 in the BCS standings and are 8-0. You can read the amazing story at this link.

This is why I don't play in the NFL

Forget that I have little to no athletic ability, THIS is the reason I don't play in the NFL. I like to think I have a fairly high pain tolerance, but this is insane. Todd Yoder of the Washington Redskins got hit on the back of his leg, and this was the resulting bruise the next day.

I found it here

Such a good night

BYU's football team lost tonight to TCU.  I'm almost sad that they lost...almost.  While it would have been cool to have both Utah and tds (team down south) be undefeated going into the final game of the season, I can't cheer for my arch enemy.  I can't be disappointed that TCU beat them before Utah.  That's like asking Batman to be sad that the Joker was captured by a swat team.  It's like asking Superman to cry that Lex Luthor foiled his own evil plans.  Someone else got them before you did, but you can still beat up on them later, and it will still be just as sweet.

Utah still has to play TCU, but it's in Salt Lake, and Utah has much more speed than tds, so I am cautious, but not overly worried.

The arrogant slogan "Quest for Perfection" that has graced the beer belly of many a tds coed has now been changed. 

 The fans that have been calling local radio shows, and asking what the chance of their team playing for a national championship will now be silenced.  Life is good.

GO UTES!

Holy War Part 2

I love Rivalry week!

This is Rice Eccles Stadium South


This is a real picture of the TDS (BYU) Football coach after practice

Utah Bowl Wins

Holy War in Utah post 1

It's rivalry week and the Holy War is on! Utah vs. The Team Down South (Breed 'em Young University) Here's the start of a sequence of items leading up to the game

Utes Destroy the Cowgirls at RES

The University of Utah beat the University of Wyoming Cowgirls...er...cowboys 50-0 in football at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City on Saturday. My Utes are now 7-3 and have a six game winning streak going into this weekend's game against New Mexico. Following that game of course, is The Holy War. Utah vs. The Team Down South (AKA Brigham Young University). Go UTES!