That punched above its weight. Great story.

You will be surprised how well respected the program is outside the BYU sphere.

Now, after a summer of listening to BYU and big 12 fans explaining how UU would never get into the B12, Utah gets in at first blush.

But then immediately becomes the early favorite.

It’s driving those twitter guys crazy.

All that ripping on Rose Bowl losses and BYU owning the Utah market has no place on the field and the Utah-Big 12 schedule isn’t the murderer’s row they all made it out to be.

Utah will play the villain role well. It’s new Territory. But the Physical, no nonsense style play suits the personality well. Seems on-brand.

Utah doesn’t have to worry about playing against huge talent disparity like they did against Oregon, Washington and USC.

In this case, they’re recruiting talent equal to or better than most in the Big 12.

This will be a lot of fun. I love the dialogue. The more Utah talk the better.

For a pretty small school with a small fanbase, this is awesome.