Both teams played well and played poorly. The Utes shot themselves in the foot with penalties. Our defense was fantastic though, just not enough in the end.

I posted my write up of the game at Holy War Football.com

Very good and typical Holy War. Hard to find a better rivalry in the country!

I’m so fucking disappointed right now. Words can’t describe how much I hate those lucky pukes from down south.

A couple of things. The play calling was horrible, again. The direct snap to Shaky wasn’t working. They needed to stop it and just hand the ball off to Wide. Very frustrating. The pass game underneath was open all game, like it was in the first two drives when the Utes were doing it. I was okay with all the deep balls (the guys were open, Wynn just couldn’t make the throws) but the stupid WR screens and the Shaky formation drove me nuts.

Penalties. Penalties. Penalties. I swear this team is a bunch of undisciplined hot heads sometimes.

Another tough loss to swallow, I’m trying to keep things in perspective, but damn this game was winnable. Even with a freshman QB, on the road, not playing a very good game. It was still winnable, and that really sucks right now.

Last play notwithstanding, great defense. Offense? Young? Inexperienced? New coaches? Candidly, I thought they (coaches) were rather incompetent. Smithson wild cat was (overall) an abysmal failure. Can’t convert on a 1st and 5? Reduced how many field goals in the red zone? Let us not forget, this is the nationally recognized BYU defense. At least we know one thing – no worries about our offensive coaches going elsewhere!!!

In his post game interview and said “Utah, their players, and their fans classless, and said that he hated them!”

As much as I REALLY want to, I can’t pin this loss on the refs. I can’t pin it on the defense either (even after that huge last play). This loss is squarely on the offense and the play calling I’m not gonna pull any punches here folks, Jordan Wynn was a bloody coward. He kept missing easy passes that I could have made (that’s saying a lot if you knew me personally), he kept holding on to the ball when he should have tucked it and ran, he ran backwards when he and lost yards when he was pressured. and he kept throwing balls deep that could not be caught. (there were a few exceptions but still).
   In all fairness though the loss wasn’t all him, the offense and special teams didn’t do us any favors with all the stupid penalties they made. (I don’t understand why K-Whitt wasn’t yelling at his ST unit to leave the return man the bloody hell alone,three roughing the catcher calls us unacceptable).
   Bottom line: we lost this game for two reasons: We couldn’t convert 3rd downs and we had 0 takeaways.

I’ll give him credit there, In the end, he didn’t throw the game away for us… I ’m still just pissed about the horrible red zone play, It was our constant Achilles heel this year.

 that play when Jorgenson was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct was hilarious. He’s mouthing off to the ref and he gets flagged.

“They didn’t deserve it. It was our turn, and our turn to win. We deserved it. We played as hard as we could tonight. And it felt really good, again, to send them home, to get them out of here, and so it is a game I will always remember.”

“I think the whole university, their fans and their organization is classless. They threw beer on my family and stuff last year, and they did a whole bunch of nasty things, and I don’t respect them, and they deserved to lose.”

well played Max, You threw the game winner, I’ll give you that, but c’mon. Waiting until your last game is over to mouth off your rivals? something inside told me on my drive home from Lumpy’s that you couldn’t resist to open your mouth.

Yeah…and we’re the classless fans.

I don’t like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them. I hate their program, I hate their fans, I hate everything."

Now all we get to hear is “George is still open” over and over until next year…….(sigh)

Sure enough, replayed it several times to the great amusement of all – cougars are sooooo above reproach . . . LOL!!

UG-LY!!!! but they won so I can’t dis em’ too much right.

Three out of four is all I ask:

1) Beat BYU
2) Win the MWC
3) Win 10+ games
4) Win a bowl game.

That’s also pretty much the order of importance of each, thought the bowl streak makes the last two close.

The first two are out. It is not because we got beat by a better team. It is because we made mistakes and allowed a worse team to steal a win that the fourth quarter showed should have been ours. I wish I could say this was an anomaly but it was a trend evident in many games this season.

The 2009 Utes will go down as a team that was inconsistent. Losing significant depth at RB hurt. Smithson is not the same as Asiata in the direct snap roll. I personally think Cain would be much better for that roll.

I am fairly confident in this though:

Utah will still be in the final BCS top 25, if not this weeks BCS top 25.

What is the record in this rivalry in games decided by 7 points or more?