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Safeties Julian Blackmon and Terrell Burgess are the last words in Utah’s very tough defense

Terrell Burgess laughed. The question he fielded during an interview at Utah’s Spence and Cleone Eccles Football Center is the same subject that comes up wherever the senior safety goes this summer.

“It's crazy,” he said. “I feel like I get that question every day I'm at the grocery store: 'Are you guys feeling the pressure?' ”

It’s worth asking. In two weeks, the Utes undoubtedly will be picked No. 1 in the Pac-12 South in the conference’s official media poll. Another distinction likely will come next month, when Utah will make the preseason AP Top 25 for the first time in the program’s nine years of Pac-12 membership.