Utah took eight years to win a Pac-12 South football championship. In their ninth season of conference membership, the Utes undoubtedly will receive their first No. 1 forecast in the division.
Ordinarily, that development would become the biggest Utah-angle news to emerge from the Pac-12 Football Media Day, being staged Wednesday in Hollywood, Calif. Yet during a summer when the Utes are almost universally being picked to win the South by magazines, websites and other analysts, these are the bigger questions that the official media poll will answer:
Who will be picked second in the South?