On other counts though, they would have beaten very few teams that convincingly made bowl games (maybe only BYU) and possibly two losses to teams not in the top 25. I don’t see how anyone objectively, which I believe I am more than most on here since I’m only passively anti-Utah, saying that a team with those stats that only sometimes passes the eyeball test (and not all the time) will be top 20.
But for your sake I hope so since you seem to believe so fiercely.