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TCU Is More Than Just BCS Buster

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Gary Patterson really doesn't want to lobby the BCS for inclusion into its national championship mix. The fourth-ranked TCU Horned Frogs' impressive body of work should be enough. They are just one of six remaining undefeated teams in the country, and have collected quality road wins at Clemson, Air...

Utah Gets 16 Votes for No. 1, Finishes Second to Florida in Final AP Poll

The final Associated Press college football poll is out, and Florida, of course, is No. 1. But a quarter of the AP voters picked Utah as the No. 1 team in the country, and the Utes finished the season No. 2.Overall, Florida got 48 first-place votes, Utah got 16 and USC got one. At least one AP voter picked both Utah and...

Utah Coach Kyle Whittingham Says He'll Vote the Utes No. 1 -- But Can He?

The winner of Thursday's Oklahoma-Florida game is supposed to be the automatic and unanimous winner of the national championship, as determined by the USA Today coaches' poll. But that might not happen this year.Texas coach Mack Brown said after beating Ohio State last night that he's voting the Longhorns No. 1, and Utah...

Utah Makes a Case for No. 1

By whipping Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, Utah has finished the season as college football's only undefeated team, and made a case that it deserves to be considered the No. 1 team in the country.Asked whether his players should be called the national champions, Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said this: "Somebody has to explain...

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05/28/12 Kurt Kragthorpe: Solution to Utah-BYU scheduling... Source: The Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City UT Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham may have couched his comments about being willing to discontinue the rivalry with BYU by using the word "periodically," but he certainly alarmed me in making the strongest statement to date about the future of the series.
05/24/12 'Plus one' model a possibility again, Scott says Source: The Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City UT The possibility of a 'plus one' title game is stronger after the Big 12 and SEC announced their "Champions Bowl," according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
05/21/12 Utah Utes QB situation gone from 'awful to awesome' Source: Deseret News - Salt Lake City UT Last fall I wrote a column about the sorry state of the quarterbacks at the University of Utah. The headline of the column read " Utes ' QB situation is plain awful."
05/10/12 Is Utah's Whittingham the fourth best coach in... Source: The Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City UT Back at work after some time off, hope everyone is enjoying this great spring weather.
05/10/12 Column: Playoff system causes debate among Pac-12... Source: Herald & Review - Decatur IL Many college coaches are control freaks who operate on military time and like to assign stadium steps for anyone arriving five minutes late to a 10 o'clock meeting.