The Bearcats and Cougars square off Nov. 22 at Nippert Stadium, so there may be some powder blue scouts on hand at the game or to state their case on the GameDay set, which will have a brisk, early morning start at 7 a.m. Mountain time.

Byrd Ficklin might've stole the show in Utah's dominant win over Colorado on Saturday, but it doesn't appear he'll be taking the starting quarterback position f

Does Utah football have something ‘special’ with quarterback Byrd Ficklin? Here’s why Kyle Whittingham thinks so. Kyle Whittingham said he saw it immediately at the dawn of Utah’s spring camp.

Utah coach Kyle Whittingham is already an anomaly — with Gundy gone, he stands alone as the second-longest-tenured coach in the nation with 21 years at Utah — and that’s doubly true in the current college football landscape.

Wins don’t get more impressive than the 46-point beatdown that Utah gave Colorado on Saturday, Oct. 25. Utah went into the game as 14-point favorites. They not only covered the spread, but more than tripled it.

Whittingham has an 11-6 record versus BYU since taking over the Utes’ head job in 2004. This is, however, the first time the head coach has lost three consecutive contests to the Cougars in his 21-year career. “It’s part of the deal,” Whittingham said. “You go from elation to devastation in a seven-day period of time.

Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham still refuses to acknowledge rival BYU. As a result, he would not say anything nice about Cougars starting

The vaunted 2008 team will live forever. The 2021 and 2022 teams will sit on a similar plateau for all time. In between, Utah pretty deftly moved from the Mountain West to the Pac-12, and what's more, it became a legitimate Pac-12 contender inside of a decade after the move, which did not seem possible.