Media not impressed with Utah

I always felt that they never liked us.

When we are on the media its usually not because we won. It’s because we lost I was always hoping that when we joined the pac we would get respect.

So we will have to take it by the horns and fight for the respect we need.

Wait … you guys actually thought you’d get more respect by joining the Pac-10?

Have you not been paying attention to the derision, scorn, and dismissive attitude of everyone east of Las Vegas for the past 25 years?

Welcome to the Pac-12, the Rodney Dangerfield of college football. Even if you win the national title, you’ll still get no respect.

and everything is right with the world. If the Utes win their games the rankings will fall in line.

I’m more concerned about getting the win at USC to help perch the Utes atop the South division to stay. Rankings will be whatever and full of bias, we don’t need to worry about them unless Utah is undefeated at the end of the year. It’s the ugly part of the sport that I hate, so I have to ignore it.

Early season rankings are do-or-die for non-BCS teams. Now, the goal is try to win the conference and play in the Rose Bowl, which is all totally based on winning games not on people’s opinions that don’t know what a Ute is.

I don’t give a rat’s ass about the BCS rankings anymore (well, not much anyway).

On another topic, am I in the minority in thinking everyone is negatively over-reacting to Utah’s “win”? Their defense looked great. Their brand new Tight End game looked great. Their running game looked great. I saw some amazing fullback blocks for big tailback gains. Their turnover margin looked great.

So Wynn under threw the one-and-only pass called for him down field. So what. He looked awful in a few 5 year dumpoff passes that went 3 yards. I’ll give you that. However, one game for an offense against a weak opponent that went well for one quarter and than just coasted lacklusterly doesn’t mean that much to me. I don’t think it is a good predictor of how the season is going to go. This USC game will be the telling one.

If Utah wins and continues to win the rankings will come. Anyone that pays attention to the polls this early is a little ridiculous, because they are all hypothetical. I do have to admit i check them out too! But clearly they mean very little. Rankings shouldnt come out until week 4 or 5. Why was Georgia ranked 19th, or even ranked for that matter?

As for Utah doing its part to uphold the Pac-12 national image.

Well if we crush the tds, that will get some big time notice from the press. Though I believe tds homer and AP voter Jon Wilner might rank us even lower.

And then we play Pitt again. I am sure they want to pay us back for last year. QB Tino is a year older and a year wiser. Another tough, tough game.

Too much worry among Ute fans.

The win vs MSU was a fine win. We clobbered them from the get-go and never were threatened. That is what we were expected to do. Maybe it wasn’t sexy, but we beat them soundly.

BYU passed us in the AP poll, but not the coaches poll. Big difference. AP voters have probably never played a down of football in their lives… thus, their rankings mean less. The coaches know which is the better team.

We will give USC a game. They looked bad vs Minnesota, so they are very beatable.

Forget the rankings. The last thing I want at this point is to add pressure on top of pressure. Fine, leave us unranked. If we deserve it, we will get there soon enough.

We just gotta win our conference and we get a BCS bowl.

We go undefeated, we go to the NCG.

If we go undefeated and don’t get into the NCG, we aren’t the only fan-base talking about the controversy.

These early polls don’t matter any more, because we will jump the TCUs, BSUs, and BYUs so long as we go undefeated – Even if they do the same. It’s wonderful.

Neither was I, honestly.