The stats provide some measure, of course, but the first third of the season can be deceiving for multiple reasons, including, for example, weak opening schedules and a natural lack of team cohesion (along with a relatively small sample size). As teams begin to face more difficult challenges, as teams come together, and as teams open up the playbook a bit, things can change dramatically.

All of this means little, of course, in predicting the outcome of the Utah-Cal game. The game could obviously go either way, and only the game itself will provide any answers (or at least clues). But from what I've seen, I think Utah's D is pretty stout, and I think it will give Goff a lot of trouble.

I guess we'll see how well my personal (and admittedly biased and optimistic) eye test stands up to early-season stats.

Go UTES!