the Utes would have lost to USC and beaten UCLA.

I think the disparity between home and away for them is that pronounced.

I wonder how Ute fans will show in Las Vegas. None of my Ute fan friends are going this year. All of them (literally every Ute fan I am friends with) went last year. They had more hype and felt more certainty a year ago having just destroyed Oregon. This year it seems like many Ute fans are sitting on their hands. I am not sure that they'll be taking over Vegas in the same way.