It’s a big meet tonight, to open the Red Rocks’ season. Let’s watch and discuss it.

Lots of great players to choose from, so this is a nice accomplishment for him.

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Hunter Clegg showed up with a sack and fumble!!!!

Utes continue their early Pac-12 dominance. Here are the takeaways:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/takeaways-runnin-utes-continue-hot-pac-12-start

Cole Becker who was at Colorado has committed to Utah and he’ll be on scholarship. He’ll start next week..

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Harbaugh

Will be interested to see how this was handled after the ASU debacle as well. You know SEC teams were doing this and getting away with it I reckon.

This one is a tad puzzling to me as he is a current 16 game starter.

Has entered the portal

Per Twitter.

Let’s get things rollin’. Here’s the starting five:

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The former 4-star Rivals250 RB just never seemed to make progress at Utah as he was surpassed by walkon Charlie Vincent.

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Another high school All-American game and more praise for Utah signee.

https://n.rivals.com/news/all-american-bowl-week-stock-risers

Well deserved with all of the production from the group even with all of the injuries.

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Here’s the article on Bumphis heading to Mississippi State:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/official-utah-wr-coach-bumphis-to-mississippi-state

I’ll be honest from talking to a close source to Micah, a lot of this falls on Tavion Thomas and his antics. Micah had people in his corner trying to keep him at Utah, but he made the final decision today.

This also has to do with him wanting to be the featured guy and that won’t happen with Ja’Quinden’s emergence.

Going back to Thomas, he’s caused hell in the running back room and I was told Tavion put multiple in a dark place.

This has absolutely nothing to do with Quinton Ganther. Micah loves him.

The former Florida transfer puts his name in the ring for the next stage of his career:

Micah represented Utah the best anyone could ask of a player. He would have been an important piece to the offense next year.

https://utah.rivals.com/news/breaking-utah-rb-bernard-to-the-transfer-portal

Can anyone explain to me, hopefully the coaches said something, as to why Nate wasn't inserted into the game.
I know the redshirt thing was talked about and it was my understanding that the NCAA had ruled bowl games
wouldn't count towards the four games.
Barnes is a great story but not a D1 qb, although I do admire and respect him for what he has done at the U.

Had a great time at the Rose Bowl, despite the loss. Now it's time to get serious about basketball.

Our defense is very good. Main area we need to improve is we give up too many offensive rebounds.

Our offense has been inconsistent. Turnovers continue to be a problem.

Those two weaknesses have made it so our opponent gets many more shots off than we do, which tempers the benefit of our good defense.

In any event, Oregon State is a game we should win while Oregon (which hasn't played particularly well) routinely kicks our butt and I won't expect anything different until it has actually happened.

It's a fun team to watch and much improved over last year.

I’ll throw this as a sticky probably tomorrow. It’s a nice addition to the site by the national staff:

https://utah.rivals.com/transfer_tracker/2023?school_focus=Utah

Per 247sports

With the Transfer Portal starting to hit for the upcoming offseason, here’s a link to follow:

https://n.rivals.com/transfer_tracker/2023

To those who say Utah has hit their ceiling.... Please.

Utah was a playoff team in this new format coming up. In fact... They would have been a playoff team with a first round by. They literally would have been in Ohio State's spot. As I understand it, the 4 highest ranked CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS get first round byes in the new format. Utah was the highest ranked conference champion outside the SEC, B10, B12. Utah was higher ranked than the ACC Champ.

So... Utah would be in the "Great 8" TO START the playoffs. From there it is anyone's guess as to how it turns out.

Utah is RIGHT THERE. Furthermore.... Utah's performance in the ROSE BOWL GAME cannot be indicative of how they would have played in a playoff game. It was CLEAR that Utah missed Phillips and Kincaid. Phillips and Kincaid likely play in a playoff game. I cannot begrudge a kid sitting out an exhibition game - as the Rose Bowl is if they are high league draft guys. Everyone would begrudge a player sitting out a game that was in pursuit of a national championship (as Ohio State should begrudge Njibha or however you spell it).

So.... Chill Conroy. Utah is there. You simply cannot hope for much more than what we are getting and an exhibition game (one we would have looooooooved to win) is not indicative of how a team can or should play in pursuit of a title.

Not every former player is going to be happy with the program after leaving. I completely disagree with his statements.

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