Kyle handled the whole thing well. He lobbied for his team without going over the top, he stuck to his guns and cast his vote, and he took the results in stride. Good show.

I have updated the rivalry fact page:

http://www.math.tulane.edu/~mnicholas/College%20Football/rivalry.html

Coach Whitt is a guy you can follow into any battle!
What kind of “vote” is it anyway when everyone in the AFCA agrees to vote the same way? I thought Mack Brown had a stiffer spine than that.
Great job Utes! As a Utah fan now in Boise, it’s great to see bronco nation a little humbled (Props to TCU).

Its pretty hard to find a man with honor and integrity in today’s world, especially at a time when the “system” is against you. Coach, you did the right thing, and you and your team know, as does the whole nation, you are the National Champions. You handled your business with class, and have made the University of Utah, the State of Utah, and the MWC proud to have had you represent them (us). Well done!!!

Watching and listening to the burnt orange nation whine over their stolen opportunity was overly tired and then to see Mack fold. The Longhorn Fans stand proudly and scream “Texas Fight”… to bad their coach doesn’t have as much fight in them as ours.

Thank you Utah Ute senior class and especially Coach Kyle and his staff. It was a great ride…one for the ages….thanks for putting up a real fight.

congrats on the utes for a great season. i lived in utah off and on for 15 years. from mcbride thru meyer and now whittingham. i’m glad the utes locked up whittingham for five years. i believe he is a man of his word unlike many other coaches out there. i still think the utes will have enough firepower to win 10 or 11 games next year. i liked what i saw in c. louks when he played and he ran very well with the football. hopefully he will get bigger for the position next year. i personally would like to see tcu go undefeated next year. it would be great for the mountain west to do it two years in a row. the have patterson back and will have jr qb andy dalton back. i’m not sure if aaron brown was a jr or sr but just like the utes, tcu always seems to have a great defense. tcu did finish #7 in the country and beat an undefeated boise team. that game was not as close as everyone thinks b/c tcu rushed for 278 in that game to boise’s 28 yards. tcu will also be ranked higher than the utes in next years preseason ranking b/c utah does lose brian johnson at qb. i think utah can sustain 10 win seasons and every couple of years come up with an undefeated one. let’s hope we can get an orange bowl or even a rose bowl appearance so they can get the trophy from all four major bowls. things are going to change alot when espn gets the rights to the bcs. most of the people at espn want a playoff as does the president elect, as does the people of the nation. i loved when i saw the map on espn on who deserved to be national champions and we had almost the entire mtn west plus alaska and good grace (michigan) i’ll personally thank all the michigan people. go utes and the rest of the mountain west!