The way the University of Utah football team is being treated this week, you’d think the Utes were in a huge slump rather than a team that has won 22 of its las 23 games. The 16th-ranked Utes are a 17 1/2 point underdog at #4 TCU this Saturday in Fort Worth. But while the Horned Frogs are the favorite to win the Mountain West Conference and make a BCS bowl game for the first time, Utes head coach Kyle Whittingham isn’t ready to concede the conference title just yet.


“We’re the defending champ,” said Whittingham. “The championship trophy is in this building, and somebody’s got to take that away from us. That’s the first thing we tell our guys is TCU is a very good football team and we respect them. But the bottom line is we’ve played some good football this year as well.”

The Utes have also had a lot of success against the Horned Frogs. Utah has won three straight games over TCU, including last year’s 13-10 thriller at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Overall, the Utes are 5-1 against TCU, with their only loss coming in overtime back in 2005, 23-20.


Click here to read the full article – By Dana Greene of abc4.com

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