Go vote for Utah to win the Pac-12 South...even if you don't think they will

by JazzyUte on Jul 11, 2011 11:35 AM MDT in Football

ESPN has a poll up (bottom left) asking who will win the Pac-12 South (minus SC) and Utah currently leads with 34% of the vote. Even though sports pundits are conflicted in their views on the Utes entering this season, a plurality of fans aren't - as they have faith Utah will win the division in their inaugural season by a solid, though far from majority, number.

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still holding strong at 34%.

interesting that we are winning. Athlon actually has us fourth. I think fourth in division is our absolute floor. We should beat UCLA and Colorado with very little trouble.

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by BigBenSportsGuy on Jul 11, 2011 12:35 PM MDT reply actions

I just don't see fourth...

That would be a pretty disastrous season and most likely lead to 7-8 losses.

by JazzyUte on Jul 11, 2011 12:42 PM MDT up reply actions

true.

i think we will beat AZ, Cal, WSU, and UW at a minimum as well. Six conference wins would be nice!

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by BigBenSportsGuy on Jul 11, 2011 1:32 PM MDT up reply actions

I wouldn't call Cal automatic

They play crazy better at home last few years. Biggest Jekyll/Hyde team with home/road difference.

by Thlete on Jul 11, 2011 4:45 PM MDT up reply actions

I wouldn't call any game this year automatic.

Except for maybe Montana State

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by CrimsonUte on Jul 11, 2011 7:53 PM MDT up reply actions

wins and losses in 2011

Here’s how I see it… (1=low confidence 5=high confidence)

Montana State – Win (5)
@USC – Win (3)
@BYU – Win (4)
Washington – Win (4)
Arizona State – Win (4)
@Pittsburgh – Loss (3)
@California – Loss (2)
Oregon State – Win (3)
@Arizona – Loss (5)
UCLA – Win (4)
@Washington State – Win (5)
Colorado – Win (5)

I see 3 losses for Utah in 2011… one certainly @ Arizona and two more to either Pitt, Cal or Oregon State. Utah’s toughest stretch comes at mid-season, with consecutive games vs. Pitt, Cal, OSU and Arizona. That’s the point when Utah’s BCS mettle will really be tested.

A definite loss comes @ Arizona because they will be beaten up from the previous three contests… and taking that into Arizona’s house won’t be easy. I predict the other two losses at Cal and at Pitt… but even if those don’t hold true, I still think the other two losses happen during that three-game stretch.

With a final record of 9-3, I believe that will be good enough to win Utah the South Division. This means Arizona State MUST finish 10-2 to win the south (since Utah would hold the tiebreaker)… and I don’t think ASU will finish 10-2.

The question at that point becomes, will Utah have to travel for the Pac 12 championship or will they get to host?

by TomahawkRed on Jul 12, 2011 2:13 AM MDT up reply actions

interesting....

I thought Pitt was kind of in shambles this year? Didn’t most of their good players just declare for the draft and leave? True that it is at their place and they will wnat to give us some payback, but Im fairly confident we will win that game.

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by BigBenSportsGuy on Jul 12, 2011 8:08 AM MDT up reply actions

I don't get the Arizona Hype.

Everyone seems to think Arizona State and Arizona are the biggest roadblocks for Utah. Arizona State I can understand slightly, but Arizona I don’t get at all.

This is a team that finished the season by losing 5 straight games. It’s a team that feasted on mid caliber teams last year before getting eaten up by stronger Teams.

I know they return Nick Foles who is a good QB, but they also have to replace their entire starting offensive line. Defensively they end up replacing 5 starters as well. As a whole they replace as many starters (13) as Utah.

Oh one other thing. They are coached by Mike Stoops, who has seemed to prove over the years, that when expectations are there, he falters (Kind of like the other more famous Stoops coach, must be the name).

by UnHoly Ram on Jul 12, 2011 8:14 AM MDT up reply actions

though i think there are a lot of games that we have a very high probability of winning

I think your statement here is why this season will be so fun! Every week, there is something to talk about!

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by BigBenSportsGuy on Jul 12, 2011 8:06 AM MDT up reply actions

thats true. back to the drawing board I go.....

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by BigBenSportsGuy on Jul 12, 2011 8:05 AM MDT up reply actions

utah still winning the vote. colorado did not even get their own state. they voted utah........

and california voted arizona state. lol.

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by wolfmanshowlforever on Jul 12, 2011 5:16 AM MDT up reply actions

ha!

thats great!

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by BigBenSportsGuy on Jul 12, 2011 8:06 AM MDT up reply actions

Way ahead of you..

I already voted last week when the poll was brand new. ASU was ahead then, but looks like the Utes are pulling away. Looking at the map, we are winning the Electoral by a landslide.

by Thlete on Jul 11, 2011 1:25 PM MDT reply actions

Its a Crap Shoot, so I'm voting UTES!

I am conflicted as well. Will we get stomped, will we stomp? It could go either way. And when I am conflicted, I think ‘Kyle will likely get us performing better than we really are!’, so it has to be the Utes!

by U of Uman on Jul 11, 2011 2:18 PM MDT reply actions

Make sure to look at the map after you vote

Across the US and world we have a landslide win for majority. If this were a presidential race where winner gets all electoral votes it would be a huge win.

On the flip side, across the P12 states ASU is the clear winner.

So what does it mean that we that we win the nation and lose the states in the P12?

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by daedalus17 on Jul 11, 2011 2:31 PM MDT reply actions

recount

by TomahawkRed on Jul 12, 2011 2:18 AM MDT up reply actions

we have moved up all the way to....

35%

I love 25 people have voted in South Dakota.

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by BigBenSportsGuy on Jul 11, 2011 2:54 PM MDT reply actions

That's pretty much the entire state, right?

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by CrimsonUte on Jul 11, 2011 3:11 PM MDT up reply actions

wouldn't surprise me if

20 of those were guys flying over the state in an airplane using wi-fi when they voted.

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by BigBenSportsGuy on Jul 12, 2011 8:09 AM MDT up reply actions

Anyone know the final results?

Looks like the poll has been taken down.

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by BigBenSportsGuy on Jul 12, 2011 8:16 AM MDT reply actions

Why would you vote for Utah even if you don't think they will?

Wouldn’t doing that just make you look like homers if the Utes don’t win? Now if you truly do think they will win then by all means go ahead and vote.

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by wheatie_87 on Jul 15, 2011 3:07 AM MDT reply actions

I don't think anyone here cares much about looking "like homers," win or lose.

We are homers.

It’s a meaningless vote that tracks how each state votes. Considering that jealous zoobs in Utah have been casting their vote for ASU, we had to vote, in force, exclusively for the U in order to help give some balance to the numbers. It would’ve been the shits if the U didn’t even receive a majority vote in Utah.

by -FeloniousMonk on Jul 15, 2011 9:07 AM MDT up reply actions

You really think "jealous zoobs" are voting for ASU?

I didn’t vote and I’m not a zoob anyways so I wouldn’t know but that sounds ridiculous.

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by wheatie_87 on Jul 15, 2011 2:23 PM MDT up reply actions

Past history tells us volumes.

All I know is that, according to the voting results for the state of Utah, there were a disproportionate amount of votes for ASU, considering the population. Between Utah and BYU fans, there’s hardly enough people left over to be Utah State or Weber fans, let alone ASU, UA, etc fans. Considering that zoobs have risen en masse in the past to vote against Utah in similar polls, many of us drew the natural conclusion.

by -FeloniousMonk on Jul 15, 2011 5:02 PM MDT up reply actions