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Mabye the most boring home game in recent memory(King Louie's secret appearance as the field goal kicker for a free haircut may have been the highlight of the night). We are 7-1 with a chance to be 8-1 facing a Washington team that looks tougher than predicted.
 
Let's say Utah wins out, what else do they need to have happen to be in the playoffs? Do they even have a shot?

Bullet point the response please.
 
I've heard the opinion that if Stanford wins out (CCG included) they make the playoffs, but if Utah does, they probably don't. Just chatter, but it wouldn't surprise me. I think Cy is a great example of the bias Utah might face. Some people just can't handle the thought that a recent mid major could hang with the big boys.

Adding to the difficulty is the timing. Dropping a game early in the season is much less consequential than dropping one mid to late season. Especially for a team like Utah that already has a steep uphill climb. Whereas the good ol' boys will fall all over themselves to give Bama or Notre Dame a pass, Utah can't rely on extra credit for reputation.
 
Bronco70 said:
I've heard the opinion that if Stanford wins out (CCG included) they make the playoffs, but if Utah does, they probably don't. Just chatter, but it wouldn't surprise me. I think Cy is a great example of the bias Utah might face. Some people just can't handle the thought that a recent mid major could hang with the big boys.

Adding to the difficulty is the timing. Dropping a game early in the season is much less consequential than dropping one mid to late season. Especially for a team like Utah that already has a steep uphill climb. Whereas the good ol' boys will fall all over themselves to give Bama or Notre Dame a pass, Utah can't rely on extra credit for reputation.
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I think it's hard to be taken seriously when you lose to a 3-3 team mid-season.
 
I don't think Utah wins out, but (I've said this on here 100 times) I'll bet anyone that a 1 loss Pac 12, SEC, or Big Ten champion makes the CFP every single year, no question. There are just too many things that would have to occur to keep them out.
 
People complaining that voters are biased against Utah. Anyone here think we look like a top 4 team?

We were #3 ahead of several undefeated teams. I have never once felt we were being underrated this year.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
People complaining that voters are biased against Utah. Anyone here think we look like a top 4 team?

We were #3 ahead of several undefeated teams. I have never once felt we were being underrated this year.
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Being undefeated, and with some high profile wins, the Utes were a sexy dark horse, and a lot of peeps jumped on the bandwagon. They lost to USC and all those bandwagoners scattered like cockroaches. If Utah could have stayed undefeated, it would be a no-brainer that they get in. If they go on to win the PAC now, I'm not so sure it's automatic. Depends a lot on how the other conferences shake out.

But we'll have a little better idea when the playoff committee rankings come out.
 
So I've watched the first half of the Washington-Arizona game. Arizona drove right down the field the first possession but had to settle for the a field goal. Washington has the best red zone defense in the pac-12. Still Arizona was really missing Nick Wilson. Washington offense went three and out on their first drive. For whatever reason Arizona is using two QB's and well it didn't work out so well, their 2nd QB came in and threw a deep pass into double coverage which was easily picked off and aided Washington's first touchdown. Later in the half Arizona went for it on fourth and 6 and inexplicably threw a deep lob pass that got knocked away. Washington than drove down the field for a touchdown and the score was 21-3 at half.

Obviously Arizona didn't really do themselves a lot of favors, but still this is a legit Washington defense. It's going to be a defensive slugfest for sure. Gotta hope the Utah D comes up with some turnovers vs a inexperienced UW offense.
 
I'm not saying Utah is a playoff team, but IMO this is the scenario that gets them in:

- Utah has to win out (obviously)

- USC has to win out, or at worst, only drop 1 more game. USC is loaded with talent, and if they finish the season on a roll, Utah's loss suddenly looks a lot better than OSU's loss to VaTech last year.

- Stanford wins out til the PAC title game. Utah winning the PAC over a fellow 1 loss team carries a lot more weight than beating a 2 or 3 loss Stanford.

-The Big 12 eats itself alive. Something along the lines of OK State beating TCU, then TCU beating Baylor.

- Clemson loses at least one game, but hopefully 2. I think a 1 loss Clemson team gets the nod over a 1 loss Utah team.

There's a lot of hand wringing by Ute fans over the past 2 weeks, but they should rest easy. If we aren't a 1 loss team, we don't deserve to be there anyway, and I'd rather play in a real conference and know exactly where they stand as opposed to running the table in the MWC and never really getting the chance to know.

And hell, maybe they are a 1 loss team. Very rarely does a team go wire to wire without having a few weeks where they look "meh". Urban Meyer teams have had those moments, so have some Nick Saban teams. Bottom line is, if they're good enough to finish with 1 loss, they'll do it. If not, sit back, try to relax, and find a way to enjoy winning 10 games as a PAC 12 member.
 
Overthinking it.

If the Utes win out chances are very high that enough happened to get them in. There's five conferences, and a one loss champ in the second best one will get the nod. Unless LSU, Clemson, TCU/Baylor, Mich St./OSU all run the table, a one loss Pac-12 champ gets in. And everything in history says that those teams won't all win out.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
a one loss champ in the second best one
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Is the pac12 really the second best conference? I see stanford at #9, Utah at #13, and UCLA at #22
I see Baylor at #2, TCU at #5, Oklahoma state at #12, and Oklahoma at #14.

Looks like most voters in the country probably think the big 12 is better than the pac12
 
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