The Utes have won five Pac-12 games by 18-plus points each, and they also outperformed the odds in the five-point victory at Washington. Utah coach Kyle Whittingham’s critics point to games he shouldn’t have lost over the years or other times when the Utes failed to assert themselves against inferior opponents.
Yet if the 2019 season’s trend continues, Utah (9-1, 6-1 Pac-12) will dominate Arizona and Colorado to conclude the regular season and meet Oregon for the Pac-12 championship, with big possibilities in play. The Utes’ latest statement came in a 49-3 ransacking of UCLA, the program’s biggest margin of victory in nine years of Pac-12 play.