So how will Utah relive what happened in 2019’s title game with everything (that’s not hyperbole, either) on the line? How will they manage to digest the 37-15 loss to Oregon?
It will take time. Maybe months. Maybe years. Maybe forever. Who knows? Some fans, if they wanted to, could’ve held a permanent Surrender Cobra pose for the three-and-a-half hours it took for the 2019 Pac-12 championship game to come to an eventual, merciful halt. The Utah that swamped talk shows and radio waves and paragraphs of sportswriters nationwide was nowhere to be found, adrift in a brisk December wind in a half-empty stadium in the Bay Area.